THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1994, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Friday, August 5, 1994 TAG: 9408050584
SECTION: LOCAL PAGE: B3 EDITION: NORTH CAROLINA
SOURCE: BY ANNE SAITA, STAFF WRITER
LENGTH: Medium: 67 lines
If you happen to be traveling to or from the Outer Banks this weekend, there are folks at either end of Currituck County who encourage you to pig out.
Community groups are hosting all-you-can-eat food festivals at Tulls Bay, near the Virginia line, and Corolla at the beach.
The 2nd annual Pig Out With the Players starts at 3 p.m. Saturday at the Tulls Bay Marina, near Moyock.
The Tulls Creek Players, hosts and beneficiaries of this fundraiser, encourage guests to fill their plates with barbecue, beans, cole slaw, hush puppies, hot dogs and desserts until 7 that evening.
They suggest bringing lawn chairs or blankets and settling to listen to the country strains of the county's own Currituck Ramblers. Prizes will be offered at many of the games booths.
Commemorative T-shirts also will be sold. To place an order in advance, call 232-2491.
Tickets are $8 for adults and $2.50 for children under 12. Proceeds will be used toward future Tulls Creek Players theater productions.
The theater group, with 17 active members of all ages, performs regularly at area schools, art festivals and the Currituck County Senior Citizens Center. Members and technical crews often come from the Currituck County High School Drama Club.
The group will send out a casting call in September for its fall production, which has yet to be announced. For information on auditioning or helping behind the scenes, call Miriam George at 232-3282 or Pat Spicer at 232-3207.
At the other end of the county, the Corolla Fire Station at 827 Whalehead Drive is the site of the 16th annual Corolla Fire & Rescue Squad Seafood Feast from 1 to 6 p.m. Sunday.
Visitors can repeatedly fill their plates with all the fresh fish, steamed crab, shrimp, clam strips, hot dogs, hush puppies, cole slaw, potato salad and baked beans they can eat.
Women can bid for a date with a Corolla Ocean Rescue lifeguard. Other auction items include artworks, dinners and vacation packages. Event T-shirts also will be for sale.
Those who aren't afraid of heights can hop aboard for a fire truck ladder ride. Monster trucks and hang gliders also will be on display.
Admission is $15 for adults and $5 for children 12 and under. Proceeds benefit the Corolla Volunteer Fire Department and Rescue Squad.
For more information on the Seafood Fest, call 453-3242.
If you want to stray a little farther, watermelon festivals are being held this weekend in Murfreesboro and Nags Head.
The 9th annual Watermelon Festival in Murfreesboro's historic district includes the state's largest agricultural parade at 10 a.m. Saturday. Other attractions today and Saturday include a crafts show, helicopter rides, magic shows, amusement rides, fashion show and clogging groups.
For more information or directions to the Murfreesboro festival, call 398-5922.
In Nags Head, one of the summer's weirdest festivals - the Wacky Watermelon Weekend - starts at 11 a.m. with the annual watermelon parade, led by the state's watermelon queen, Dawn Baldwin of Leland.
The festival, held at the Connection, across from Jockey's Ridge, features watermelon throwing, watermelon bowling, a seed-spitting contest and watermelon carving. by CNB