Woolly Worm Gazette 2018

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INTRODUCTION

Woolly, wriggling, wacers warn of weather

BY JAMIE SHELL editor@averyjournal.com

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ooly, wandering, two-toned worms are wiggling their way out of the woodwork all over the High Country to warn us of winter weather. The time has arrived for another Woolly Worm Festival, named this past year as “The Official Woolly Worm Festival of North Carolina.”

The festival, which has been going strong in the High Country since 1978, has transcended its local, small town roots and firmly planted itself, much like worms on a string, upon the national stage.

Festival co-founder Jim Morton, who spent his first autumn in the area in 1973, was enamored by the local legend of the woolly worm as a weather forecaster.

According to folklore, the 13 segments of a woolly worm correspond with the 13 weeks of winter. Black segments are said to indicate severe weather, while orange or brown segments are indicative of milder weeks.

Morton put the worm to work in Banner Elk when he, along with a group of local merchants, was tasked to find an annual event to bring to the area.

While Morton had faith in the little worm’s accuracy, not all worms tell the same story. Some of the High Country’s woolliest denizens warned of severe winter weather with their solid black coats. Other, perhaps more optimistic worms in the same area would have more brown on their backs, indicating that the winter would be mild.

While all the worms were woolly, not all the the worms could be right, so Morton set out to find only the best wormy weathermen by means of a race, of course.

It stands to reason, at least to all of those learned in worm lore, that the fastest, most fit woollies will

Look what

FILE PHOTO Posing with mascot Merryweather and Tommy Burleson, Joshua Grosser and his worm, Aspen, are joined by his sister Calli, mother Cindi, and father Don as the winner of $1,000 at the 40th Banner Elk Woolly Worm Festival last year.

naturally be the most able forecasters of the weather.

So it has been ever since.

Woolly worms and their handlers have flocked to Banner Elk every year from all over the world for the chance to win the right to warn the High Country about its upcoming season.

Banner Elk’s small population swells during the festival. More than 20,000 people have attended the past few events.

People flock from all over the country, and not just to gratify the olympian ambitions of their woolly worms. The Banner Elk festival has something to offer to the whole family.

In recent years, more than 140 art and craft vendors have been present at the event. Prospective vendors are juried by the Woolly Worm Festival Committee so that only

the best handmade wares are allowed to be sold. No buy and resell vendors are allowed at the festival.

The festival, while now a mega-modern woolly worm event to rival the very woolliest the world has to offer, had humble beginnings. The first Woolly Worm Festival took place at Banner Elk Elementary School on a cold and windy day. The festival organizers discovered through their ground-breaking worm research that woolly worms, like people, aren’t usually too interested in recreational climbing when it is too cold.

Unfortunately, it is currently impossible to impress the importance of the race upon the woolly worms who, while they are endowed with certain meteorological abilities, resolutely don’t speak

English.

To combat the cold, which typically hasn’t totally taken hold over the High Country by mid-October, handlers have now learned that worms can be motivated by hot air blown through a straw.

Woolly worms, many festival attendees are surprised to learn, are not actually worms at all, but are the caterpillar larvae of the Isabella Tiger Moth.

The worms, like many Hollywood actors gone wrong, prefer to be known for their adolescent work rather than any perceived grown-up shortcomings (although waking up and finding that you’ve grown wings must be nice).

The worms that festivalgoers race in the fall aren’t just adept at predicting the winter, they are also well equipped to survive it.

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Woolly Worms outlast the winter in hibernation.

Instead of burrowing deep underground like many animals, they choose to spend the winter closer to the surface, under rocks, fallen foliage or logs. The worms produce a chemical called cryoprotectant that allows their bodies to totally freeze solid with no adverse effects. Some worms are known to survive as many as 14 winters using this method.

When it decides it is ready and the spring thaw comes, the worm that stuck itself in the freezer emerges as a moth and spends its newly winged life fluttering around lamps and streetlights remembering the glory days when it was a weather-forecasting festival star.

Attempts to found moth festivals have been met

with less success than the ground-based competition.

Entering its 41st year, the Banner Elk Woolly Worm Festival will be held in downtown Banner Elk Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 20 and 21. Races will take place from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday and 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Sunday. Saturday’s grand prize winner will go home with $1,000, while Sunday’s races, which are typically smaller, will award a grand prize of $500.

Worms can be purchased at the festival for $5, but attendees are also welcome to bring their own worm.

Also, no pets are allowed on the festival grounds during the weekend.

For more information, call the Avery County Chamber of Commerce at (828) 898-5605 or click to www.woollyworm.com.

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Winter may come and go, but philanthropy is forever

BY CARL BLANKENSHIP carl.blankenship@averyjournal.com

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hese little worms make a big splash for local causes.

The Woolly Worm Festival is fun and brings families to the area to enjoy local folklore and an unusual, albeit heated competition, but more the event is a major fundraiser for two groups is the county.

The Banner Elk Woolly Worm Festival is the biggest fundraiser for the Banner Elk Kiwanis Club and the Avery County Chamber of Commerce. All of the funds raised, after expenses and startup funds for next year, support projects to help community families and children.

Proceeds are divided equally between both organizations. While Kiwanis distributes its portion by awarding grants for good causes, the Chamber uses its funds to promote and support local businesses that benefit the entire county.

Kiwanis’ 2018 grants were generated primarily by the Woolly Worm Festival and July 4 Duck Races.

The Kiwanis Club of Banner Elk distributed more than $67,000 in 2018, including the following grants: • $22,600 for classroom teacher projects • $9,000 for Reading is Fundamental book distribution • $6,000 Support for local homeless and relief agencies • $10,000 to install new playground equipment in Banner Elk’s Tate-Evans Town Park • $1,000 sponsor the YMCA’s Reindeer Run • $1,000 for the Back to School Bash • $1,500 for the Back Pack Program • $2,000 for Avery County YO! Other grants have been given to support a number of other organizations.

All of the the funds raised by Kiwanis are dispensed in the community and the club is funded by member dues.

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By the numbers

BY LOGAN PARKS logan.parks@averyjournal.com

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hile you’re at the Banner Elk Woolly Worm Festival, it might help to have some useful information to chat about among friends. Here are some helpful numbers you can use to show off your woolly worm knowledge.

1 — Grand prize for the first-place winner on Saturday, Oct. 20, is $1,000.

That’s a lot of money, so you better have trained that woolly worm well.

2 — Chances to win. Not to worry, if you can’t make it on Saturday, another tournament will be held on Sunday, Oct. 21, with a grand prize of $500 for the first-place winner.

3 — Feet, in length, of the rope woolly worms have to climb in order to claim the

prestigious champion title.

4 — The price of admission in dollars for children age 6 to 12.

5 — Children under the age of five are admitted to the festival free.

6 — The price of admission for adults is $6.

25 — The number of woolly worms to race in each heat, starting at 9:30 a.m. on Saturday, Oct. 20.

41 — This year marks the 41st annual Woolly Worm Festival. Will your woolly worm go down in history as a racing champion?

20,000 — The estimated number of people who attended last year’s festival.

That’s a lot, right?

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FILE PHOTO Competitors prepare to place their worms on the string to begin a race at the annual Woolly Worm Festival.

How to twain your woolly worm

BY LOGAN PARKS logan.parks@averyjournal.com

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magine 12 weeks of grueling, non-stop training from sunrise to sunset. In your ear, the ceaseless shouting of commands is deafening to the point that you hear it in your dreams. Ahead, there’s yet another obstacle for you to overcome. You reach the rope, and with what little strength you have left, you climb to the top and over to the other side. Still, the shouting continues. It never ends.

Now, you might be thinking, “Is this what woolly worms really have to go through before competing?”

The answer — absolutely not.

The U.S. military may have to go through that sort of extensive training, but woolly worms get a much more leisurely experience when preparing for the most important moment in their lives. If there were ever to be a similarity between the two, there is at least a certain structure that needs to be followed for the both of them.

Believe it or not, a champion woolly worm most likely undergoes a simple, yet effective five-step training process in order to become a worthy contender. CLIMB refers to this tried-and-true method for perfecting the woolly worm training experience. The acronym denotes five different exercises that hone the skills of your woolly worm. The first? Well, like the acronym says — Climb.

Of all things a woolly worm must be proficient at, climbing is undoubtedly the most important. A welltrained woolly worm has to be able to climb in its sleep.

The rope at the festival may only be three feet in length, but to a woolly worm, it might as well be a marathon.

If you and your woolly worm want to earn the prestigious title of champion, as well as the $1,000 prize, climbing has to be the No. 1 priority.

Next in the CLIMB training method is Love. That’s right. Screaming and shouting will get you and your woolly worm nowhere close to the top of that rope. That doesn’t mean you have to go easy on your woolly worm, but a positive attitude goes

a long way in these kinds of high-stakes situations.

Besides climbing, the next letter in the acronym is just as important when training your woolly worm — Initiative. Your woolly worm must have a burning desire to earn the victory. It may be racing for you, but at the end of the day, it also needs to be racing for itself. Character building is essential in order for your woolly worm to take initiative and have its name forever remembered by all future champions.

Things don’t always go according to plan. Some-

times, your woolly worm just won’t want to climb. Maybe the pressure is too much, or maybe it never really even wanted to compete at this level. If that’s the case, the fourth exercise in the CLIMB training method might come in handy — Moves.

Some woolly worms have one mission and one mission only: To get to the top of that rope no matter what. Others, though, appreciate the finer things in life. Things like art, beauty, dance or music.

For these woolly worms, they might stop halfway up the rope to catch the view.

They might take advantage of the spotlight and show off their dance moves. If that’s the case, all you can do is encourage these moves, but just make sure they keep dancing their way to the top of the rope.

The final element to take note of when training your woolly worm is something that appeals to the crowd in a much deeper way. Any woolly worm can climb a rope, but what really gets the crowd’s attention is why the woolly worm is climbing.

The final letter in CLIMB refers to “Back story.”

If you can win the crowd over with your woolly worm’s back story, you might as well have already won the race. All of history’s greatest champions have a story that touches the hearts of anyone who hears it. These stories tell of their upbringing and their purpose. If you can determine why your woolly worm is climbing, you’ll be one tiny step ahead of the rest.

So if things aren’t looking up for you and your woolly worm as we approach this year’s festival, just remember all you need to do is CLIMB.

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Make Time for What Matters Most Our 6th generation family farm makes farm-fresh cheese on site from our own happy dairy cows.

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