Jamboree 2022: It’s right around the corner, y’all…
That’s right, folks! It’s almost that time once again, when the good residents of Moulton thumb their noses at perfectly good air conditioners and head out to the local park during what’s typically the hottest days of the year to take in the sights and sounds of another Moulton Town & Country Jamboree, scheduled for July 29-31 at the Moulton City Park.
For many, especially your Moulton Chamber directors and members of your local civic organizations, it means countless hours of volunteer work to ensure everything goes off without a hitch. So, remember to tell them all thanks!
Others will spend at least two days standing over smoking hot barbecue pits to see if they can’t bring home some prize money and maybe new wall art as this year’s barbecue cook-off champions. Or, perhaps, maybe they prefer staying up until the wee hours of darkness Saturday night worrying over a burning hot oven to put their own unique spins on dozens of pies that get turned in each year for the big scholarship auction taking place Sunday at the Oaks.
For more still, particularly the youngest in Moulton, it will be a weekend filled with firsts—their first ride on whatever that thing-a-ma-jig was that left you feeling kinda woozy but you just had to ride one more time because it was so much fun, their first time sporting one of those light-up-flashy-dealeys that all the other kids were running around with as soon as the sun went down, the first time you ever saw that many tractors in a single town’s parade, and positively the first time you ever shook hands with a real-life “crank puller” before or played tug of war with a machine that eliminated the need for horses on a lot of farms.
They’re the reason we all keep coming back every year, after all.
Or like the bunch aboard the Moulton Chamber of Commerce float, shown here from last year, rounding that landmark corner in the heart of Moulton’s historic downtown business district, in what must’ve been their very first ride aboard that float all together following their inauguration as the 2021-22 Moulton Chamber of Commerce Royalty the week prior.
They’ve since been on dozens of float rides together over the last few months as the city’s junior ambassadors, as they traveled far and wide to attend various town parades and festivals to represent Moulton.
The parade is scheduled once again for the final day of festivities at 10 a.m. Sunday, July 31. Also taking place that day, the world-famous Moulton fried chicken dinner plates get served up after the parade—plates are $12 each, all served as to-go plates only this year—followed immediately by the annual Pie Auction, known to raise thousands each year for graduating seniors at Moulton ISD, and the awards presentation over at the Jamboree Car & Motorcycle Show (for complete schedule of events, see the advertisement inside today’s Eagle).
Before all that, as is tradition, the current year’s Chamber Royalty will relinquish their crowns this weekend when a new royalty court is named at the Moulton American Legion Hall following the 2022-23 Miss Moulton Pageant beginning at 6 p.m. Sunday, July 24.
Guests planning to attend the event to root for their favorite queen candidates will be asked to pay a $5 admission to Sunday’s pageant.