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South Franklin Catfish Festival today in Wisner Louisiana
Posted on 5/6/23 at 8:49 am
Posted on 5/6/23 at 8:49 am
It was formerly the Franklun Parish Catfish Festival in Winnsboro, but that city stopped having it, and now a smaller version is being held in Wisner each year. Glad to see the festival traditon being continued.
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Posted on 5/6/23 at 8:50 am to boudinman
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city stopped having it,
Why?
Posted on 5/6/23 at 8:51 am to boudinman
Traditons are good unless you’re a catfish.
Posted on 5/6/23 at 8:51 am to boudinman
Was so depressing when I used to drive through there and they had the abandoned school on the north side of town.
Posted on 5/6/23 at 8:53 am to Ignignot
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Why?
In some of these small towns festivals bring undesirables and they become more trouble than they are worth.
Posted on 5/6/23 at 8:54 am to boudinman
Catfish festival used to be great when I was a kid in Winnsboro. Great food
Posted on 5/6/23 at 8:55 am to boudinman
You don’t frick with tradition
Posted on 5/6/23 at 9:05 am to Ignignot
Winnsboro wanted more more of the festival proceeds to offset costs of employees working that day, and they passed ordinance to require vendors pay a new $200 fee. Up from around $50.
Monies from original festival were used to fund parish scholarships, and to be used to pay for costs for future festivals. The comittee balked and said they would just nolonger have the festival.
Monies from original festival were used to fund parish scholarships, and to be used to pay for costs for future festivals. The comittee balked and said they would just nolonger have the festival.
Posted on 5/6/23 at 9:07 am to udtiger
quote:That was a satellite campus for Northeast. Closed in the mid 90’s.
Was so depressing when I used to drive through there and they had the abandoned school on the north side of town.
And Winnsboro is the nicest town on the Monroe-NTZ trip baws.
This post was edited on 5/6/23 at 9:09 am
Posted on 5/6/23 at 9:08 am to boudinman
Catfish Festival used to be all about catfish and fellowship. It’s gotten out of hand the last decade. All anyone cares about now is the money. I know 2 people that rent their house out for the weekend and make enough to pay the mortgage for the year. It’s lost the feel that made it great in the past.
Posted on 5/6/23 at 9:11 am to OysterPoBoy
That feel is back with the one in Wisner. Harings Pride Catfish, good music, and lots of friendly people.
Posted on 5/6/23 at 9:13 am to boudinman
The new mayor of Winnsboro was supposedly bringing the festival back and reducing the fees back to the original. Guess it didn’t work out.
Posted on 5/6/23 at 9:27 am to boudinman
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Winnsboro wanted more more of the festival proceeds to offset costs of employees working that day, and they passed ordinance to require vendors pay a new $200 fee. Up from around $50.
That's somewhat similar to what happened to the Art & Folk Festival in Columbia years ago.
The festival was HUGE when I was a kid, bringing anywhere from 50k-100k people into Columbia for that weekend (and anyone whose even driven through Columbia understands how big a deal that would be). The parish had school buses bringing people in from parking lots up to a mile away and for many years a satellite festival had sprung up in Riverton (enough to require police to direct traffic there as well).
As the family who had originally started the festival decades earlier started stepping back from it, others stepped up but their goals were more focused toward making money than preserving culture. They raised their prices while basically telling those complaining "then go somewhere else" (because there were no other festivals at the time, eventually that changed).
Flash forward 30-ish years and now it's held for only one day (instead of 2-3) on Main Street (instead of the rec center grounds across the river) and they have to allow people selling even cheap, plastic things in order to have enough in vendor fees to pay bills.
Posted on 5/6/23 at 9:37 am to White Bear
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And Winnsboro is the nicest town on the Monroe-NTZ trip baws.
Nope… and I’ve been driving Monroe-BR the last 25 years…
Posted on 5/6/23 at 9:50 am to lepdagod
So…what town do you give the nod to?
Posted on 5/6/23 at 9:50 am to boudinman
Pro tip, hit Smoker Paradise in Winnsboro for some killer bbq sandwiches. Brisket and pulled pork are money, but they also have some excellent smoked turkey. Ribs and chicken ain't bad either. Sides are just ok.
Posted on 5/6/23 at 9:53 am to TigerNAtux
He's saying to drive past the I-20 entrance ramp and enter beautiful, sunny, downtown Rayvegas. The finest city on the Natchez to Funroe jaunt.
Posted on 5/6/23 at 9:57 am to OysterPoBoy
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I know 2 people that rent their house out for the weekend and make enough to pay the mortgage for the year.
What? Is their mortgage $200/month?
Posted on 5/6/23 at 10:07 am to LSUballs
quote:I bypass Rayville to check the crop/waterfowl sitch on 15.
He's saying to drive past the I-20 entrance ramp and enter beautiful, sunny, downtown Rayvegas. The finest city on the Natchez to Funroe jaunt.
I do like Alto, too.
Posted on 5/6/23 at 11:40 am to boudinman
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Winnsboro wanted more more of the festival proceeds to offset costs of employees working that day, and they passed ordinance to require vendors pay a new $200 fee. Up from around $50.
Sounds like what king Tyrin Truong is doing in Bogalusa. He wanted to charge the American legion $2500 to have the annual 4th of July parade. The farmer that was recently sued by the Washington parish sheriff decided he’d pay the fees, he’s now running against the sheriff that sued him. King Truong backed off the fees and decided to let the parade roll as usual.
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