May Day Festival, 1971, strength tester, photo 1

This image shows a student attempting to ring the Dixie Bell on a strength tester during the May Day Play Day, the annual May Day festival held at Sanford Mall at Appalachian State University (1967-current) on May 8, 1971. Other students can be seen sitting on the stone wall in front of Plemmons Student Union, built 1967, in the background. The Dixie Bell was set up by the ASU Veteran's Club. The May Day Play Day in 1971 was organized with a New Orleans Bourbon Street theme, and included jazz music, booths, games, a coin-toss, an ice cream parlor, sideshows, body painting, pea shooting, the Appalette's egg combat booth, and the Golden Capers' pie throwing contest.

Students

Student Activities

Festivals

May Day

Appalachian State University

General Picture Files, 2004.040, Box 36, Student Activities F1, C14.2.6.6.

University Archives, Appalachian State University

1971-05-08

News Bureau

JPEG

Photographs

English

Image

Appalachian State University

Sanford Mall (n.d.)

Series 5 -- Students, Student Organizations, Student Life

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The Appalachian State University Historical Photographs Digitization Project is supported with federal Library Service and Technology Act (LSTA) funds made possible through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, administered by the State Library of North Carolina, a division of the Department of Cultural Resources through the North Carolina ECHO, 'Exploring Cultural Heritage Online' Digitization Grant Program.

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