The back of this postcard from the 1960s is printed with: "Greetings from Paris, Tenn. Home of the world's biggest fish fry. Paris School Band traditionally leads the colorful parade of this most interesting spring festival of "The Fishingest City" on Kentucky Lake. Crowds of some 25,000 tourists and "home folk" enjoy this gala occasion yearly. Fresh fish from Tennessee River (Kentucky Lake) is prepared by Community Clubs of Henry County and served to guests in truly southern style."
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Yes, this fish fry still occurs, and it is this weekend (April 23rd).
Click here for the web site. The fish fry tradition lives on, but I don't think the word "fishingest" ever really caught on, did it? Though Florida does have a
Fishingest Bridge. Paris is in northwestern Tennessee.
This next postcard in Winona, Minnesota shows a little bridge made just for fishing:
5 comments:
Yeah, those -ingest words have a certain charm, but don't seem to have caught on in a big way.
I have never attended a community fish fry. Considering all the food handling issues around fish...hmmm...
Paris is in NW Tennessee?? All this time I thought it was in Texas. I lead a sheltered life in what may well be a fishinger township that any in Tennessee OR Texas.
Paris, Texas. Paris, Tennessee. My God, what in the hell could be next? Stockholm, Delaware? Barcelona, Arkansas? Copenhagen, Idaho? Berlin, Connecticut? Oh, wait a minute, we actually have a Berlin, Connecticut.
Copenhagen, Idaho?
Naw, but we got Cambridge,
Moscow, Oxford .....and of course, Paris! O course it
ain't got no Eiffel Tower or Pigalle, but well, there's Bear Lake one way and t'other there's the Cache Valley.
You got a Paris, too? I'll be damned!
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