VINTAGE 41th Queen Rachel Laborde Recipe Card 1987 YAMBILEE FESTIVAL Louisiana

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Front of card reads: " Rachel Laborde 41st Queen of  Yambilee"
Recipes other side: "Yam Casserole"
adult division grand champion Jo La Caze Opelousas, LA
"Yam Cake " and "Filling" Katina Fuselier Leonville, LA"
Visit with us for the 42nd Louisiana YAMBILEE FESTIVAL
October 20-25, 1987
Opelousas, Louisiana.
Approximate size of card is 10 cm / 15 cm
3.9 inches by 5,9 inches overall.
This card is also wonderful for framing, a collectible for your recipe box
I bought this card at the flea market in New York in 2010.
The Yambilee Festival is a discontinued festival that was held annually in Opelousas, Louisiana. The Yambilee Festival started on the Wednesday of the last full weekend of October and continued throughout the weekend.
The Yambilee was founded by two friends, native Texan J.W. "Bill" Low and Felix Dezauche, a yam shipper and processor as a way to honor the local sweet potato industry. According to J.W. Low, the Raison d'être of the festival was to "assist and encourage the advancement of the material prosperity and progress of the State of Louisiana, Southwest Louisiana and St. Landry Parish by stimulating local and national interest in Louisiana farm produce, particularly Louisiana Sweet potatoes (yams) and to provide colorful programs of entertainment capable of generating nationwide publicity and advertising for Louisiana yams and other farm produce."
The first Louisiana Yambilee celebration, held October 9 and l0th of 1946, was organized by the first Board of Directors whose members included: J.W. Low, J.F. Dezauche, Anthony Chachere, Charles Bourque, Lee Mizzi, J.P. Barnett, Arnold Winsberg, J.M. Landry, A.B. Reed, Allen Dezauche, John Thistlewaite, Alex Watkins and Seth Lewis not to mention Opelousas Chamber of Commerce, city, parish and state officials, local organizations and countless volunteers.
The first Louisiana Yambilee festival queen was Jean Horecky of Church Point. There were 2 Co-Mr. Yams, Jack Herbert and Alfred Lagrange, both from Opelousas. The festival would crown its first king, R.J. Castille of Sunset, during the second festival.
In 2012, the Yambilee Festival was discontinued due to both lack of funding.
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