May Day Festival, 1971, pie throwing, photo 3

This image shows one of the women pelted with pies during the pie throwing contest in the May Day Festival on Sanford Mall at Appalachian State University (1967-current) on May 8, 1971. The pie throwing contest was sponsored by the Golden Capers. Other students can be seen in the background. 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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