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A Place in Florida - Let's Cheer the Lowly Possum
There's a put in place Florida that built a 12-foot-high monument in the middle of town to exalt the lowly possum. Now, why would anyone wish to accomplish that?
Well, to start, heroes are difficult to find with this invest Florida - the Panhandle city of Wausau, home of fewer than 500 persons during Washington County about 10 miles south of Chipley.
Why not the possum, an unlikely hero to say the least? Nobody else puts the possum on a pedestal. Why not Wausau?
Secondly, back 1982, Wausau got sick and tired of being left out of the Florida lists of fun, fairs and festivals. Every devote Florida wants a festival. And not one devote Florida has a Possum Festival. Why not Wausau?
If you haven't been to Washington County, you probably will think I'm causeing this to be up. If you have been to Washington County, you'll understand - and know this can be a true story.
Wausau, it turned out, had some pretty powerful possum politicians during the early '80s. Here are two things they accomplished:
They persuaded the Florida Legislature to proclaim the initial Saturday in August as Possum Day in Florida. That led to the building of the monument along State Highway 77 in Wausau.
They even got the United States Congress in promoting the possum. Congress joined the fun by giving the funds for Wausau's Possum Palace so Wausau might have a location to hold its annual Fun Day and Possum Festival. Featuring a queen contest and possum auction, among other things, the festival attracts thousands of people annually, and so they like it.
Time out for many educating of Northerners here. The South's possum is the identical lowly animal you call opossum, (Why use seven letters when six can do?) It's a smallish marsupial that lives in trees and shows its ugly body only at night. That's why, when you find yourself within the right devote Florida, you can hear possum hunters' dogs baying and barking. Treed by dogs, the possum 'freezes', so it's easy to trap (or shoot) one.
An inscription on the monument in the center of Wausau cites the possum's role in providing 'both fur and food' through the centuries. It goes on say: 'Their presence here has provided a source of nutritious and flavorful food in normal times and it has been a crucial assist to human survival when in distress and critical need.'
NZ Possum Fur Clothing Characteristics if you want. The people of Wausau will laugh with you - while downing baked possum and sweet potatoes.
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