Big Flat Annual
Homecoming
By Reneé
La Viness
NOTE: This was listed for a number of years ago. Check with the church or chamber for
information for this year.
Big Flat
Annual Homecoming is held mostly on Saturday, of Memorial Day Weekend. Homecoming begins about 9 or 10 a.m. and
ends around 3:30 to 4 p.m. If you want
a parking place--LESS than a mile away, better get there early!! Bring a lawn chair to sit in. And that's all you'll need. It's about as
informal as it could be.
There's a typical tiny town parade and live music for dancing in the
"pavilion" in the center of town. Folks sit & stand around
visiting and eating. But mostly, folks
just introduce themselves to whoever, and visit with
each other!!
They have a live country band, there.
They have the turtle race, for the little ones. If you've got young children, bring a
turtle!! There are sawing contests, jig dancing contests, sack races, bean
toss, skillet toss contests, and a queen's contest. They also have a drawing for a handmade
quilt. At the school building, they
have arts and crafts for sale.
Food aplenty will be there. And pop,
tea, and probably coffee. One of the
churches serves a noon meal, and people just kinda "mill around and chew the fat." You can also buy home-cooked food across
the street from the pavilion.
Decoration Day at the Cemetery is Sunday.
There will be a tombstone dedication at the cemetery this year for
John Elijah Morris, too.
They have t-shirts for sale, $10.00 each, ball type caps, around $5.00 or
$6.00 each. Big Flat Annual Homecoming
books are for sale, and the past couple of years, they've been $4.00
each. Selling t-shirts, caps, books,
and the drawing--helps pay for the Homecoming the next year!!
There are also lots of reunions around these dates.
Nearest motels are at Marshall and Mountain View. They have lots going on up there, this time
of year, so you ought to go ahead, now, and make motel reservations. At Mountain View, there's American Inn,
Holiday Inn, Mountain View Motel, Dogwood Inn Motel, Ozark Inn Motel, and
Day's Inn, and there's Bed and Breakfast "Inns" too.
There is a possibility of a project being started to collect for a Stephen
Treat monument to be placed in Big Flat Cemetery for year 2000 reunion.
[Note:
If you have pictures of this event, we'd like to have a copy to post on this
page. If you'll lend them for scanning, I promise to return them promptly.
Thanks, Judi Sharp]
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