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as well. Another popular draw to the extent that the Ridgely Speaking of both best days and of water, there was a time when
Volunteer Fire Company co-promoted the festival with the the Ridgely ballpark actually was a traditional baseball park.
Lions Club for several consecutive years was the fi refi ghter Long before the acreage on the edge of town was utilized for
waterpower competitions. To this day that aspect of the event county youth soccer games, skateboarding, and power walking
still surfaces in random conversations reminiscing about the on a paved loop, there were two long-standing, well-maintained

good old days. baseball fields on site: one for little league and one for senior
league. It was exhilarating to play in front of the largest crowd
Closer to dry ground, the rope ladder climb contest on the
gathered all season and just as entertaining to see a light-
midway commonly attracted long lines as country boys and
hearted water fight break out amongst Ridgely Little League

farmgirls from all over aspired to reach the cash prize at the

coaches, volunteers, and other affiliated parents as the day
top. Most fell harmlessly to the straw bales below, but it did not
drew to an end. The enclosed diamonds, right down to the

stop hundreds of attendees from dusting themselves off and
paying to try again in an effort to impress potential suitors. Ah

yes, springtime, when everyone is pining for love. Who knew Commercial
the Strawberry Festival is more or less the Caroline County or Residential
version of a debutante ball?

The dunking booth is traditionally another obligatory stop Call me for all
along the path of rural courtship. Ballplayers young and old your Real Estate
wanting to demonstrate their arm strength and accuracy to needs.
onlookers make their way to that area as a matter of course.
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vicinity of the tank with a new boyfriend or girlfriend is hard
to say, but one year, a Chesapeake Bay Retriever puppy was
so enamored with the noise, excitement, and splashing water
that she ended up soaking wet; they love to swim. If she stuck
around for the Jack Russell Terrier races that overlapped the BENSON & MANGOLD
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