The University Of Brattleboro ( www.universityofbrattleboro.com ) is holding the first Annual North American Neighborhood Pea Shooting Championship on Aug 15, at 1 PM at the Neighborhood Schoolhouse, which is located at 231 Western Ave in Brattleboro, up behind Solar Hill.
There is a $100 prize for first place. There will be clay targets, including Cthulhu. Other prizes for best costume. All ages are welcome.
There is a registration fee of $10. Plastic straw pea shooters will be provided for free. Feel free to bring your own pea shooter if you prefer. Brass tubes from Brown and Roberts work great. If you want to practice in advance with one of these, make sure to get one that is the right diameter, one that works well with dried soybeans sized objects.
The event is a fundraiser for the for the Neighborhood Schoolhouse, which is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization in Brattleboro Vermont, and is dedicated to the education of children. All registration fees go the Neighborhood Schoolhouse.Funds will be used in part to provide scholarships for families in need.
Additional cash prizes
Second place will receive $25, and third place will receive $20.This should be way more fun than scratching a scratch ticket.
My almost fervent hope, is that we will bet a lot of people dressed in costumes, especially the adults.I myself hope to go as a Giant Rooster.
My wife Cynthia Houghton created one of the clay targets, a clay Cthulhu. We thought the slogan, “Kill a Clay Cthulhu for the kids” had a nice ring to it.
Rolf
Regulation Pea?
Will this be using official peas, or will competitors be using spit wads and other projectiles?
I see mention of soybeans.
Soylent green is . . . SOY
It would just be wrong, as well as confusing, to call it a soy shooter contest. I mean I myself doubt I would go to a “soy shooter contest.” But we will be handing out soy beans, not peas.
But we found with experimentation in our backyard, that soy beans (which we got at the co-op) really worked the best.
Peas have wrinkles in them, which cause unpredictable flight paths. The soy beans seem to shoot more smoothly.
Even more importantly, fit semi snugly in the most commonly available plastic straw pea shooter. Unless the projectile fits semi snugly, it is hard to get any pressure behind it, no matter how hard you blow.
Other Targets
We will have other targets too, such as a target of a baby bird that you have to feed the pea too, by accurately shooting the pea into its waiting mouth. No, not a real baby bird, a large image of a baby bird affixed to a box. If you get the pea in its mouth, it falls into the box, you get the point for the shot.
At each station, you get three shots. If you make all three shots into the target, you get all three points for that station. At some of the stations, you are trying to vanquish monsters, and at others you are trying to feed the hungry.
Always a winner
Wondering why the University didn’t apply for the Our Town $$… : )
I’m sure it would have been well spent in the pursuit of learning, art, and fun.
Our Town, a play by Thorton Wilder and a fund ?
I didn’t know about it.
I will have to look it up.
We worked on more targets last night.
Some of the targets are frightful, and meant to elicit a sense of self preservation in the person shooting the peas.
And the others are poor little things, like baby birds,or a koala, that need to be fed a pea.
Wet wads
Is the event rain or shine? Looks like it may be wet on Saturday.
PEAS PEAS PEAS !
RAIN NOT EXPECTED TILL 7 PM TODAY !
THIS EVENT IS FROM 1 till 4 SO WE ARE GOOD TO GO!
CALL 802 257 0727 FOR ANY QUESTIONS
Results?
How did it go?
Who is the North American Champion Pea Shooter?
Were there any giant barnyard animals?