The Cantaloupe Festival & promoting Tarboro

This Saturday, June 28th, Tarboro will host the 2nd annual Eastern Carolina Cantaloupe Festival. 

It promises to be lots of fun with more food, more music, blow-up rides for the kids, contests, arts & crafts vendors.  The town closes off a section of Saint Andrew Street and hundreds if not thousands of folks converge on our downtown.

As GOT members, this will be an excellent opportunity to promote the monthly T2S events.  An opportunity to invite the visitors back again every month for fun in our beautiful little town.   It will also allow us to contact vendors,  music groups and craftspeople who might be interested in participating in a future Tarboro's 2nd Saturdays event.

I'll be talking with the downtown merchants this week to give them a heads up if they haven't thought of it already.  Each downtown merchant should put something out on the sidewalk, just as we do for T2S, to encourage the flow of pedestrians to stroll the length of our downtown streets and see all that we have to offer.  The festival is focussed on St Andrew Street and the Courthouse Square, but with a little creativity, we can pull them out and along Main Street as well. 

I'll probably set up a table at 305 N Main (the front of the Marrow-Pitt building) with flyers and information about the Grassroots of Tarboro and Tarboro's 2nd Saturdays. Anyone interested in sitting with me?  Come on down! The more the merrier.   It might be a good time to sign up more kazoo players for the Tarboro Community Kazoo Band and we may even be able to do some fund-raising.

We, as a community trying to grow and become revitalized, need to recognize and take advantage of every opportunity to promote our town and ALL that Tarboro has to offer. 

As I browse the web, I often come upon websites where people can post comments about places they've visited or where they live. I see these as a FREE opportunity to promote Tarboro.  Each time I write a positive blurb about Tarboro, I'm putting it's name out there for people to find. People who may be looking for a nice place to live.  I also use the words "best place to live in NC" as often as I can without being too obvious.  I know that someone out there in cyberspace is wondering and searching the web for information, and I'm hoping that their search for the best place to live in North Carolina will lead them to Tarboro.