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‘Heart of our community’
Young women in sequined dresses with long, flowing trains. Children laughing as they ride the carousel. A community coming together for a common cause.
Freshly-baked yam pies.
“The smells and the sounds and the people, there’s just nothing else like the Yamboree,” Upshur County Judge Dean Fowler said. “It’s just a really amazing weekend here in Upshur County.”
Many residents describe the event as a homecoming that draws about 100,000 people — most Upshur County natives — to Gilmer each year. The 71st East Texas Yamboree begins Wednesday and runs through Oct. 18.
What are your favorite Yamboree memories?
Comments
By June Shaver Hill
October 10, 2008 9:27 PM | Link to this
Recently, there was a picture of a float in the Gilmer Mirror. It was 1958 Harmony High School Yamboree float and I was on it along with some of my other classmates, Fifty years ago! What a thrill to see it after all these years again in the paper.
By Dessie Scoggins
October 10, 2008 4:33 AM | Link to this
Riding the tilt-a-whirl with my date (High School Sweetheart) and marching in the Gilmer High School Band. That was a great event in the ‘40’s. Attending the Crystal Theater/Strand Theater the smell of pop-corn.