The Sumiton Frog Festival
October 4th 2008
The third annual Sumiton Frog Festival enjoyed stellar weather again. The morning was cool as vendors scrambled to get their booths set up.
The number of vendors swelled to over 160 booths offering food, arts & crafts, horse riding, tee shirts, quilts, and information on just about anything you care to know about.
There was music in the air from two stages.
This year's festival was special in that it paid tribute to our veterans. More than thirty veterans from our nations wars were honored.
Bruce Hamrick, Chairman of the Walker County Commission presented Leldon McLeroy a belated Silver Star for his efforts during World War II.
Civil War enactment folks were on hand with demonstrations and displays.
The car show sponsored by the Boy Scout Troop 121 took place on the Bevill State Campus and awards of over $500 in cash and prizes for winners.
The Sumiton Frog Festival is a family oriented event with fun for the entire family. Face painting for the kids and a children's area

Last year's festival in October drew thousands of people for the event. The early autumn weather in Alabama is perfect for festivals.

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A Good Ol' Day in Sumiton
by Jilda Watson
Saturday October 4th, 2008 was a good old day. If you are of one of those folks who find themselves wishing for and dreaming of the good old days, if you long for the day when you walked down the street and your neighbor smiled at you, when it was safe for children to walk the sidewalk, if you dreamed of a town where the
people were not embarrassed or afraid to show their love for God and country, where soldiers were remembered and respected, where young and old, people of every
color and faith, well to do and not so well to do, walked the street without fear, where BBQ, fried fish, fried pies, and snickers and fresh lemonade flowed like milk and honey, where dulcimers, candles, wind chimes, and frogs of every kind were made with much love, where
the music and talent seemed to ooze from the streets themselves, then you should have been at the 2008 Frog Festival in
Sumiton, Alabama. For the third year, there was a place in Walker, County where time stood still, a place where we could all look back in a few years, and remember a good old day.


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