Notes

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 heart of town to exalt the lowly possum. Now, why would anyone might like to do that?

Well, to start, heroes are hard to come by with this put in place 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 understandably? Nobody else puts the possum over a pedestal. Why not Wausau?

Secondly, back in 1982, Wausau got sick and tired with being left out in the Florida lists of fun, fairs and festivals. Every place in Florida requires a festival. And Possum Removal Cost Melbourne devote Florida carries a Possum Festival. Why not Wausau?

If you have never attended Washington County, you probably will think I'm thus, making this up. If you have visited Washington County, you'll understand - and know this can be a true story.

Wausau, it proved, had some pretty powerful possum politicians noisy . '80s. Here are certain things they accomplished:



They persuaded the Florida Legislature to proclaim the very first 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 to advertise the possum. Congress joined the fun through providing the funds for Wausau's Possum Palace so Wausau could have an area to hold its annual Fun Day and Possum Festival. Featuring a queen contest and possum auction, among other things, the festival attracts lots of people each and every year, plus they like it.

Time out for some educating of Northerners here. The South's possum is similar lowly animal you call opossum, (Why use seven letters when six will perform?) It's a smallish marsupial that lives in trees and shows its ugly body only at night. That's why, if you are within the right invest Florida, you can hear possum hunters' dogs baying and barking. Treed by dogs, the possum 'freezes', therefore it is easy capture (or shoot) one.

An inscription about the monument in the heart of Wausau cites the possum's role in providing 'both fur and food' through the centuries. It goes to say: 'Their presence here has provided a resource of nutritious and flavorful food in normal times and it has been a significant assist to human survival when in distress and critical need.'

Laugh if you love. The people of Wausau will laugh together with you - while downing baked possum and sweet potatoes.

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