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Lindsey Stephens, is 2008 LWC Mtn. Laurel candidate Summer Shade, KY, co-ed one of 22 from Kentucky's colleges and universities competing in 78th festival, a event with a history second oldest to the Kentucky Derby in Commonwealth With photos By Duane Bonifer, LWC Public Affairs Director A Lindsey Wilson College student had a Memorial Day Weekend to remember. Lindsey Stephens of Summer Shade, KY, represented Lindsey Wilson at the 78th Kentucky Mountain Laurel Festival.For four days, Stephens and her escort, LWC alumnus Bruce Harris, were among a select group of college students who were local luminaries for four days in this quaint Appalachian town on the Cumberland River. "It was a great experience," said Stephens, who is a human services and counseling senior. "It's something that I've always dreamed of doing and have heard a lot about--it's an amazing experience." The festival, which is the second oldest event in the commonwealth next to the Kentucky Derby, includes an Elizabethan-themed pageant that festival organizers say is the oldest of its kind in the United States. The festival began in 1931 to honor Dr. Thomas Walker, the first European explorer to enter Kentucky. Walker and his party of explorers visited what is now Pineville in 1750. During the festival, Pineville's streets and fashionable older homes are decorated with the festival's colors of pastel green and pink, giving the Appalachian city a distinctive Southern charm. Stephens was one of 22 coeds from Kentucky's private and public universities and colleges who were nominated by their schools for festival queen. Throughout the four-day festival, candidates and their escorts were guests of honor at almost a dozen events--receptions, luncheons, teas, dinners and picnics where etiquette and good manners are strictly observed. "The whole thing, from the time you get here to the time you leave, is just a very elegant event," said Harris of La Center, KY, who graduated earlier in the month with a bachelor's degree in biology. "The hospitality of the whole community is incredible." During their four days in the town, the queen candidates and their escorts were also hosted in citizens' homes. "You have people who welcome you into their home--they don't know who you are, but they treat you like they have known you for years," said Stephens, who was hosted by festival co-chair Mike Long and his wife, Johnna. While the candidates mingled at the events, they also met with the pageant's judges, whose identities are kept secret. The culmination of the four-day event is the crowning of the Mountain Laurel Festival queen at Laurel Cove Amphitheater atop Pine Mountain State Resort Park, Kentucky's oldest state park. Dressed in a white gown, each queen candidate descends more than four dozen stone steps and is presented to an audience in front of a large reflecting pool. Each candidate then performs an original curtsy, usually directed at the governor and his wife. Stephens had never curtsied before she attended the festival, but she did it didn't take long to learn how--thanks to her host's children, Mike and Faye."My host family showed me how to do it," she said. "They were so good that it took me like two seconds to learn."This year's queen, Georgetown College student Kimberly Ashton Horne, was crowned by Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear."It was such an honor to represent my college," Stephens said. "This is something I'll never forget." This story was posted on 2008-05-25 05:29:07
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