Showing posts with label Old settlers picnic fair festival queen Mooresville Public Library Indiana local history MPL treasure trove moments Wanda Potts librarian 1999. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Old settlers picnic fair festival queen Mooresville Public Library Indiana local history MPL treasure trove moments Wanda Potts librarian 1999. Show all posts

Friday, July 30, 2010

Old Settlers Queens (Mooresville Moments Series)

As the Old Settlers Fair nears (Aug. 8-10, 2010, at Pioneer Park, Mooresville, Indiana), we reprise another newspaper column from the Mooresville Moments series (July 21, 1999) (below), in which Wanda Potts, town historian and Indiana Room Librarian (1966-2002) at Mooresville Public Library, recounts the history of the Old Settlers Queen contest.

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