Here in Beaufort-by-the-Sea, life is not all about seafood. Pictures and stories from the “first annual” Backstreet Pub “Meatloaf-Off” will be coming soon, along with tips from the winners on how to make great meatloaf.
The best meatloaves arrived on a mission,
Hoping some folks might fail by attrition,
For their fine chefs, you see,
Were all hoping to be
Named the “First” in the first competition.
There’s nothing like a little publicity to mess up a great local event. That must be what the folks in Gloucester, North Carolina were thinking when their down-east Mardi Gras celebration got written up in Our State magazine. As one volunteer confided, “We were hoping for a little bad weather, to keep the numbers down.”
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meps‘n’barry is the virtual home of Margaret Schulte, often called Meps, and Barry Stellrecht. Although their home is Seattle, they are currently living and working on Flutterby, a Freedom 33 on the hard in Beaufort (pronounced BOW-furt), North Carolina. Contact them here.