WHAT MAKES OUR COUNTRY GREAT?

Odd local venues, like the 2003 Oriental, N.C.Croaker Festival, that's what. Scroll down to the center of the article and you'll see the best rendering of a partying, dancing fish to ever emerge from this great nation (America). The Croaker Festival is held July 4 and 5 in Oriental, the county seat of Pamlico county. Where there's the freedom to celebrate frogs, which strike this blog as a strange thing to boast about, kind of like holding a "Our Town Is Infested With Filthy Cockroaches Festival," there's patriotism. And beer.