By Anne Hull
Issue: Aug 11-18
Author Anne Hull goes back to her hometown of Plant City, FL where this year's Strawberry Queen and her court are competing.
The article details the way of life in the small town and portrays it as an unchanged slice of life from the 1950s South. No one really leaves town, the price of strawberries determines a lot about the health of the town, and big hair is the best. The girls are nice, naive, and religious.
Though the town hasn't changed much, the competition has. A new coordinator is trying to class it up and has made entry more difficult, the costumes less tacky, and is eliminating the swimsuit competition (for moral reasons). Also, they now have more racially diverse applicants (sort of).
Your favorite part of the article was when you learned that the Strawberry court had black jeans with strawberry patches on the back pockets, or when the coordinator told the toll booth attendant that she had nice hair.
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