A New Fire Station For Perrytown!

The 44th Annual Perrytown Herring Fry by the Volunteer Fire Department was held in support of a new fire station to be built next to the community building. This Herring Fry is a huge traditional event for Perrytown, the major homecoming for this great community.




On arrival, it was a sea of cars, both a huge number in the parking lot, and a long line of cars through the driveway (shown above), backed up in the street halfway to the crossroad, waiting for take out!




The ladies at the take out tent were working hard to get people served and keep the line moving.





Inside the community building was the crowd from the cars in the parking lot. It was only 5:30 PM when I arrived and it was already packed, as it would stay all night right up to closing.





In addition the line wound along two sides (shown below) of the large building. Wallace Perry (shown above on left) was one of many coming to this Perrytown homecoming, and he shakes hands with long time friends as he moves to the back of the line. There were people in various groups who had driven in from Goldsboro, Raleigh, Kinston, and a town in Virginia that I never got the name of. Everyone was greeting old friends and swapping stories.





The second area where ladies were handing out herring was the kitchen area at the back of the community building, the destination of the long line. The herring was not being cooked inside, just preparation of the plates and handing the food out. Due to the long line the ladies were scrambling hard to feed everyone as quickly as possible.



The firemen had a building out back where they were cooking all the fried food, herring, hush puppies and french fries. It was busy back here too, as they were preparing the herring to serve both the take out area and inside.





The 44th annual Perrytown Herring Fry was a tremendous success. You should have been there. I had a great time and will definitely be back next year.