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Title: Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine
Identifier: cranberriesnatio5153port (find matches)
Year: 1936 (1930s)
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Subjects: Cranberries
Publisher: Portland, CT (etc. ) : Taylor Pub. Co. (etc. )
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Cape Cod Girl Crowned Queen At Annual Cranberry Festival Miss Joyce Reece, Massachusetts Queen, Is Crowned at Colorful Program Held at Edaville, South Carver. meal, which was in three servings, was supervised by Professor Gay T. Klein, poultry specialist of the University of Massachusetts, with the assistance of men and women of the poultry industry. It was estimated that more than 2.000 per- sons were fed at the outdoor bar- becue. CARVER—Before a crowd esti- mated at more than 2,500 persons, Joy Reece, pretty Harwichport Hig-h school senior, was crowned National Cranberry Queen at Eda- ville. Saturday afternoon. The at- tractive Cape girl, who was selected as Massachusetts Cranberry queen out of a field of contestants from all parts of the cranberry area on Sept. 20, took over the throne which hns hmn held for the past year by Miss Barbara Patterson of Ware- ham. The coronation was conducted amid an air of yiagcantry on a large stags set u^ in front of t'l'^ huge screenhcuse of the estate of the late Ellis D. Atwood. Present to witness the ceremony were crowds of people from all ov?r Mr.s- sachusetts and visiters c'l^n fro~i as fsr awav '"^s San Francesco and Athens, Greece. In addition to the honor of ren- resenting the national cranberry industry during the joming year, Oueen Joy received a check fcr S250 presented bv the cranberrv growers. She will be given a trip to Washington. Receives Crown The new queen was crowned bv State Senator Edward C. Stone of Osterville, chairman of the judges. The other judges weie Norman Cool;, executive secretary of the Cane Cod Chamber of Commei-ce, and Henry T. Broderick, Massachu- setts Commissioner of Agriculture. Miss Reece received her royal robes from the outgoing queen. Miss Patterson. Marcus Urann, president of the National Cranberry Association, presented the gift of §2.50 from the growers. The day-long program began with a gala parade in Plymouth during the morning. Throngs of sightseers crowded the streets of Plymouth to watch a variety of colorful floats go by. Taking part in the parade were the then reigning National Cranberrv Queen, Miss Patterson, and the Massachusetts queen, Miss Reece. Bands from the Plymouth and Bridgewater High schools mar'.'hed in the parade, as a fore- runner of a "cranberry bowl" foot- ball game between the schools in the afternoon. Serve Barbecue Following the parade, the crowds headed for Edaville, where another of the famous chicken and cran- berry barbecues was served. The Elckt Ken Dalton was master of cere- monies for the afternoon program. He opened by introducing Marcus L. Urann, whom he described as "Mr. Cranberry". Mr. Urann, on behalf of the growers, welcomed those present. It was a day of thanksgiving for the growers, he said, because they had gone through fire, drought and flood to produce the crop which was then being harvested.
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Miss Joy Reece of Harwichport was crowned as National Cran- berry Queen at the annual Cranberry Festival at Edaville September 27. Miss Reece is shown above in her coronation robes following the colorful ceremony. (Photo by Abbot)

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