Pemaquid Oyster Festival
Making plans for the weekend? Be sure and remember the Pemaquid Oyster Festival this Sunday September 24. There will be boat rides, educational exhibits, guided kayak trips on the Damariscotta River , live music from 3 different bands and over 10,000 Pemaquid Oysters!
Coincidentally, oysters are featured in a piece in Octobers Vanity Fair magazine. There, we learn such interesting facts as Casanova ate 50 oysters a day and Napoleon favored them as his pre battle snack (who knew dictators had pre battle snacks?). I was disappointed to learn that Hemingway ate his oysters with a dry white wine. Everyone knows the beverage of choice with an oyster is a cold Pemaquid Ale.
The money raised at the Pemaquid Oyster Festival benefits the Edward A. Myers Conservation Fund. Ed Myers was a wonderful man, well known in our area and the "godfather" of modern aquaculture on the Damariscotta River. In 2005 over $14,000 was raised at this Festival, to be used for conservation efforts in the Damariscotta estuary.
For more information and a schedule of events visit the Lincoln County News website.
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