Newspaper clipping: Greer's Peach Festival Has Event-Packed Day

Title: Newspaper clipping: Greer's Peach Festival Has Event-Packed Day
Accession Number: 2023.23.13
Accession Date: Feb. 15, 2023
Accession Creator: David Lovegrove
Depositor: Found in collection
Description: Article describing many events at the 1960 Peach Festival
Date: 1960
Format: newspaper clipping with photo
Storage Location: General Archive Box #5 Folder #4
Text: FROM BARBECUE TO PARADE
Greer's Peach Festival Has Event-Packed Day
GREER-- So far there isn't a peach to be seen at the fourth annual South Carolina Peach festival which began here yesterday morning.
That is, there are none of the variety on can buy by the bushel basket.
There are peaches, of course, in Greer this week bu they are not the kind which one slices into a pie.
THEY ARE the choice crop of young ladies from many cities and towns in North and South Carolina and they are to compete this week for the title of "Peach Queen" now held by a peach from Greenville, Miss Anne Goldsmith.
The Peach Festival opened yesterday morning with an open golf tourney and registration of the beauties. Last night there was a banquet honoring area peach farmers, and a community square dance.
Today began with a swim party at the Harold McFeeley home in Burgis Hills at 9:30 a.m., following by the big Peach Parade at 4:30 p.m., a buffest supper for the beauty contestants and dignitaries at 6 p.m. at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Dan D. Davenport on Randall Street, and then the beauty pageant preliminaries at 8 p.m. in the Greer High School.
Meanwhile, throughout the day there was to be a public barbecue on the corner of Cannon and Jason streets.
THERE WILL be another swim party tomorrow at 9:30 a.m., a rehearsal for the beauty contestants, and the finals of the pageant at 7:30 p.m. at the high school. The Grand Coronation Ball will begin at 9:30 p.m. in the school gymnasium.
The four-day event ends Saturday. On the program is a ladies' amateur golf tournament at 8:30 a.m.; a picnic, swimming and skiing at Lyman Lake at 11 a.m.; drag race time trials at 3 p.m., the Peach Queen's banquet at 7:30 p.m., and the drag race eliminations at 8:30 p.m.

[photo caption]
GREER -- A monopoly on peaches? Maybe that's why they're so scarce at Greer. Jerry Ball of Charlotte, called the dean of beauty contest judges, has more "peaches" than he can possibly handle. He's practically buried in peaches. They are contestants at the fourth annual Peach Festival being held here through Saturday. One of them will be chosen the new Peach Queen. The beauties seem to be polishing the old apple. (Piedmont photo by Robert Smeltzer)
Relation: Related sources are all from the 1960 Peach Festival and are kept in same archival box; 1960 Peach Festival program; 1960 Peach Festival brochure; Photograph: Peach Festival, 1960 Peach Queen Judy Penland; Newspaper clipping: Queens' Banquet Given Saturday By Kiwanis Club; Newspaper Clipping: Pretty Waves From Beauties At Greer; Newspaper clipping: Contestants at barbecue luncheon; Newspaper clipping: Nine Good Reasons For Cheering; Newspaper clipping: Lovely Floats Adorned By Lovely Ladies; Newspaper clipping: 1960 Peach Queen Will Be Crowned