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On June 28, 1969, Spivey's Corner held its First Annual National Hollerin' Contest. The idea initially came from an on-air discussion between Spivey's Corner resident Ermon Godwin Jr. and two Dunn radio men regarding the origins and purpose of hollerin'. A suggestion was made that a contest be held and Godwin contacted friends in media from all over the country who ran stories of interest on local news programs. Major networks and news outlets, including CBS, NBC, and Time Magazine, picked up the story, sending reporters and camera crews to Spivey's Corner to cover the event. Dewey Jackson, of Roseboro, was declared the winner of the first contest, resulting in a deluge of television, radio, and print interview offers, including an opportunity to appear on the national television show \"To Tell the Truth.\"
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10827
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The \"First Annual National Hollerin' Contest\" is to be held at Spivey's Corner, in Sampson County, on June 28, 1969. Back in the days before telephones, neighbors would \"holler\" to one another for communication. Ermon Godwin Jr., of Dunn, decided that it might be fun to have a contest for the National Hollerin' Title of 1969, and when news of the coming event spread, he knew he had hit the jackpot. However, this is not the first \"national\" contest to be held in North Carolina. In the 1930s, the Wilson Jaycees held the National Family Basketball Tournament. Wilson also had the National Tobacco Auctioneer contest and Dunn held the First Annual National Grandmothers' Beauty Contest.
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24047
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Tony Peacock is a six-time champion of the National Hollerin' Contest in Spivey's Corner, North Carolina. His talent and those of others who participate in the contest keep the tradition of communicative hollers alive. These hollers were often used to signal specific events, call animals in, and request assistance in the rural areas of North Carolina.
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Our State
(NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 83 Issue 4, September 2015,
p126-128,130, il, por
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