Bakin Up A Storm in Pietown
By Tucker McHugh - Special to Steppin' Out
PieTown, NM - Tradition has established the second Saturday of September as the day to celebrate an old fashioned family styled reunion on the continental divide. This year it falls on Sept. 8th. But you don't have to be from Pie Town to enjoy the day - this celebration is for everyone who loves pie. And who doesn't?
You can eat 'em, bake 'em, buy 'em and more at this festival of fun. The day offers some unusual fun including the annual horseshoe pitching contest and kids horned toad race. Plus food, art vendors, music and dancing.
But where the dickens is Pie Town? Funny that you should ask. People have been coming through here for years. On Coast to Coast US 60 Two miles West of the continental divide. You know the place. Where all the rain that falls on one side of it goes into the Atlantic and the rest goes into the Pacific. You remember your grade school geography.
Or was that geometry? It doesn't matter anymore; this is where we got named because cowboys while riding the cattle trail from Luna AZ to Magdalena NM could get a pie to sustain themselves. The trail boss would tell one of the outriders to go get a pie for supper. The cowboy would say something like "Where the (dickens) we gonna get a pie out here?" " Ride on over to that town where that Norman fellow is making apple pies and meet us up at Datil well. We'll water and bed there tonight." After a couple trips on the Magdalena drive, the trail boss only had to say "head on out to that Pie Town and meet us at Datil."
There are many versions of this story of how we got our name and how the US post Office refused to use the name on their Post Office. But I got my version from a old retired U.S marshall who lived in Springerville AZ when I was young.
I see that I have used up most of the words I am allowed for this story. So I am going to close. But you can get the other versions and the history of the Pie Festival by visiting: www.pietown.org (http://www.pietown.org/)
Schedule of Events
Pie baking contest with a $100 Grand Prize
Western Bar-B-Q noon - 2 pm, $8.00 per plate
Old Fashioned Talent Contest, Pavilion, 3 PM
Pie Eating Contest Horseshoes o Kids games
Dancing in the Pavilion, 8 PM until Midnight
Through out the whole day:Concession stands will be open.
Vendors are welcome
On Sale: The New Pie Town Cook Book
Tee Shirts & Caps & Aprons
Free Camping in the Campgrounds
<center><img src=http://sonewmex.com/banners/PieFestival_horiz.jpg width=300 height=400 border=1 alt="Come Join Us in Pietown, September 8th!"></center>
The Pie Festival is sponsored by Pie Town Community Council. For more information vendors and individuals can call: 505 772 2525
Come join us in Pietown, at the Annual Pie Festival on Saturday, September 8th. We'll keep the pie warm for you!
By Tucker McHugh - Special to Steppin' Out
PieTown, NM - Tradition has established the second Saturday of September as the day to celebrate an old fashioned family styled reunion on the continental divide. This year it falls on Sept. 8th. But you don't have to be from Pie Town to enjoy the day - this celebration is for everyone who loves pie. And who doesn't?
You can eat 'em, bake 'em, buy 'em and more at this festival of fun. The day offers some unusual fun including the annual horseshoe pitching contest and kids horned toad race. Plus food, art vendors, music and dancing.
But where the dickens is Pie Town? Funny that you should ask. People have been coming through here for years. On Coast to Coast US 60 Two miles West of the continental divide. You know the place. Where all the rain that falls on one side of it goes into the Atlantic and the rest goes into the Pacific. You remember your grade school geography.
Or was that geometry? It doesn't matter anymore; this is where we got named because cowboys while riding the cattle trail from Luna AZ to Magdalena NM could get a pie to sustain themselves. The trail boss would tell one of the outriders to go get a pie for supper. The cowboy would say something like "Where the (dickens) we gonna get a pie out here?" " Ride on over to that town where that Norman fellow is making apple pies and meet us up at Datil well. We'll water and bed there tonight." After a couple trips on the Magdalena drive, the trail boss only had to say "head on out to that Pie Town and meet us at Datil."
There are many versions of this story of how we got our name and how the US post Office refused to use the name on their Post Office. But I got my version from a old retired U.S marshall who lived in Springerville AZ when I was young.
I see that I have used up most of the words I am allowed for this story. So I am going to close. But you can get the other versions and the history of the Pie Festival by visiting: www.pietown.org (http://www.pietown.org/)
Schedule of Events
Pie baking contest with a $100 Grand Prize
Western Bar-B-Q noon - 2 pm, $8.00 per plate
Old Fashioned Talent Contest, Pavilion, 3 PM
Pie Eating Contest Horseshoes o Kids games
Dancing in the Pavilion, 8 PM until Midnight
Through out the whole day:Concession stands will be open.
Vendors are welcome
On Sale: The New Pie Town Cook Book
Tee Shirts & Caps & Aprons
Free Camping in the Campgrounds
<center><img src=http://sonewmex.com/banners/PieFestival_horiz.jpg width=300 height=400 border=1 alt="Come Join Us in Pietown, September 8th!"></center>
The Pie Festival is sponsored by Pie Town Community Council. For more information vendors and individuals can call: 505 772 2525
Come join us in Pietown, at the Annual Pie Festival on Saturday, September 8th. We'll keep the pie warm for you!