Camellia Festivals-the Beginning Years

Camellias are blooming everywhere.  It is time for the Camellia Festival 2022, January 29th, 10 am till 2 pm held in the Semmes  First Baptist  Fellowship Hall and sponsored by Alumni & Friends of Semmes School, inc./ aka Semmes Heritage Park. 
Semmes First Baptist began in the first school in Semmes , a log cabin built in 1872 on the townships sixteenth section of land.
  This post is just a glimpse of the festivals of the past.  Scrapbook of Memories 1997

In 1950  Jo Alice Blackwell was the queen of the Elementary Court. The  King was William Brewer.