{"id":7533,"date":"2022-06-08T15:44:10","date_gmt":"2022-06-08T15:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/9thstreetjournal.org\/?p=7533"},"modified":"2023-03-27T15:59:25","modified_gmt":"2023-03-27T15:59:25","slug":"a-durham-moment-a-pageant-where-camp-is-queen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/9thstreetjournal.org\/2022\/06\/08\/a-durham-moment-a-pageant-where-camp-is-queen\/","title":{"rendered":"A Durham Moment: A pageant where camp is queen"},"content":{"rendered":"

Story by Ana Young, photos by Maddie Wray\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

At Camp Bushy Valley, the word \u201ccamp\u201d is an understatement.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

A Victorian beaver \u2014 in a red burlesque skirt under a black dress, a sequined sailors cap, steampunk glasses and a sunflower umbrella \u2014 marches with a parade. Eliza DuBose, a fish-tailed beaver in seaweed beads, flamingo sunglasses and an aquamarine octopus hat, prances around the campground. Another beaver wears rainbow sunglasses, a green fedora with flowers and a butterfly shirt. The setting looks and feels like a scene from Wes Anderson\u2019s \u201cMoonrise Kingdom.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s June 4, and the Beaver Queen Pageant, a fundrais<\/span>er for the Ellerbe Creek Watershed Association, is celebrating\u00a0<\/span>its 18th birthday. Hundreds of neighbors, volunteers and visitors come together for an afternoon in the meadow at Duke Park to celebrate the pageant\u2019s first year in person since 2019. It\u2019s one large village party featuring parades, dancing, environmental activism and an actual pageant crow<\/span>ning the newest Beaver Queen.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Long before the queen is chosen, bubbles blow from an entrance tent and funk music plays from t<\/span>he speakers while the crowds make their way towards an amphitheater. Food trucks quickly line Acadia Street next to the park. The line for a Durham staple, LocoPops, extends at least 20 feet.<\/span><\/p>\n

Early in the afternoon, entourages representing the pageant\u2019s contestants walk around asking attendees to \u201cbribe\u201d the judges so their beaver can win. Votes cost five dollars each. Charlee Halpheen and Susan Bowker carry a Tinder-themed photo booth and ask people to vote for Tinder Beaver. Others simply encourage pageant-goers\u00a0<\/span>to head to the voting tent, where those who vote at least 20 times can choose a home-crafted beaver tail to keep.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Mike Shiflett, a Durham resident since 1984, talks to neighbors from a tent labeled \u201cEllerbe Creek Watershed Association.\u201d Dressed in a red long-sleeve button-down with the label \u201csteward,\u201d the white-haired, retired business owner passes out pamphlets offering information about Ellerbe Creek. He explains h<\/span>ow the pageant came to be.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThey were widening [I-85], and one of the things that they were trying to do is mitigate flooding. And who causes flooding? Beavers,\u201d says Shiflett, a longtime volunteer with the association. \u201cSo this neighborhood, Duke Park, found out that the North Carolina Department of Transportation was going to trap be<\/span>avers. And when you trap beavers \u2014 you end up killing them.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Residents were outraged, he remembers. Standing nearby, an old friend Barry Ragin, president of the Duke Park Neighborhood Association at the time, chimes in.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe discovered that the state has a beaver management program,\u201d Ragin recalls. \u201cWe got the county commissioners to vote to join the be<\/span>aver management program. The beavers were saved.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThey ended up moving behind the Compare Foods \u2014 the shopping center just on the other side of [I-85]. So the<\/span>re\u2019s a huge beaver lodge there. One of the biggest on the East Coast.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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A year after saving the beavers, the neighborhood hosted its first Beaver Queen Pageant at the meadow. However, it wasn\u2019t until its second year that the Beaver Queen Pageant became a fundraiser.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThere was a 14-year-old who competed\u2026,\u201d Ragin says. \u201cHer dad, the late Bill Anderson\u2026 went to a number of the judges and said, \u2018Here\u2019s one dollar \u2014 vote for my daughter to be the queen.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAnd at the end of the day, we had something like 10 or 15 dollars. And we<\/span>\u00a0didn\u2019t know what to do with it. So we gave it to Ellerbe Creek Watershed Association. And then the next year, we decided we would actually try to raise some money, and we raised closer to $100. And then the third….raised closer to $1,000. And now, I understand it\u2019s getting close to $30,000 a year.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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Shifflet and Ragin aren\u2019t the only long-time pageant supporters in attendance<\/span>. Bill Anderson\u2019s daughter, Jill Anderson, is one of this year\u2019s pageant\u2019s head organizers, along with Greg Palmer. The very first Beaver Queen, Beverly Woody \u2014 whose real name is Richard Mullinax \u2014 also attends, dressed in scrubs and a name tag that say<\/span>s OGBQ (Original Gangster Beaver Queen). The former Beaver Queen walks around the campground, offering male and female condoms and lube to hundreds of people watching the stage.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cHere\u2019s some lubrication,\u201d says Mullinax, who now lives in California. \u201cMake sure and keep the wetlands wet, and ma<\/span>ke sure and protect the wetlands. You know we want to share \u2014 we also want to make sure we protect the wetlands for future use.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

In the foreground, the show begins as the Bulltown Strutters lead a parade, marching down towards th<\/span>e stage from a hill. People in the crowd dance along with the train as the emcee makes his way toward the microphone. He\u2019s wearing a 1960s-esque Boy Scout counselor uniform with a homemade beaver <\/span>tail. Soon enough, he introduces another emcee who calls himself Dante.<\/p>\n

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Before the actual contest can begin, Dante leads the crowd in \u201cThe Blessing of the\u00a0<\/span>Kits.\u201d He calls <\/span>upon all families with child<\/span>ren to make their way to the stage. He then leads the children in an environmentally-focused prayer.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cTo Mother Nature, we pray for the planet,\u201d the blessing begins. \u201cBreath of life, from whom all order was created. The whole of creation bears witness to you. Teach us to respect all creatures and all people and increase our gratitude for your loving providence\u2026.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cPut a Little Love in Your Heart\u201d by Jackie DeShannon plays as the crowd dances along. Then the six judges \u2014 each represen<\/span>ting a brewery sponsor \u2014 come out dressed as historical figures and pop-culture characters, including Ruth Bader Ginsburg (Too<\/span>th Beaver Ginsburg) and Julius Caesar (Chewlius Caesar). Each judge states what they\u2019re looking for in a Beaver Queen.<\/span><\/p>\n

Finally, it\u2019s time to meet the contestants: Satine Bieber, Beavabundancer, Tinder Beaver, Pawryshnikov Gnawjinski (a.k.a. Ballet Beaver) and Velour Gnawsett Peltenham Riverdancer West (a.k.a. Velo, the Bicycling Beaver).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Next comes the talent segment. One contestant blends a smoothie using a bicycle. Another performs Janelle Monae\u2019s \u201cPynk.\u201d Tinder Beaver sing-raps a song full of puns about dating apps. Another beaver dances while spraying perfume. Ballet Beaver dances to Swan <\/span>Lake (of course). The judges deliberate and count the votes.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In the end, each beaver receives a title. <\/span>Satine Bieber has the Best Tail and Costuming, and Pawryshnikov Gnawjinski is the Best Talent. Beavabundancer is the Craftiest Beaver, Tinder Beaver is Miss Hygeniality and Velour Gnawsett Peltenham Riverdancer West has the Best Stage Presence.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

A prima donna ready to find a hunky beaver to settle down with takes the biggest prize. Tinder Beaver, with a socia<\/span>l score of 533 and $2,590 raised, is voted queen.<\/span><\/p>\n

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She receives her crown \u2014 a pink bucket hat with felt pointy edges, sequ<\/span>ins and hand-sewn animals. Then the song \u201cDancing Queen\u201d by ABBA plays. Instead of \u201cdigging the dancing queen,\u201d some organizers sing \u201cdigging the Beaver Queen.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

For the children in the audience, the win is out of a fairytale. They run up to Tinder Beaver to hug and congratulate her. She embraces them and the other contestants, smiling with surprise and shock.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI was so out of breath because my heart was going a millio<\/span>n miles a minute,\u201d says Tinder Beaver, whose real name is Alisa Hassinger. The first time she performed or practiced her talent was during the show, she explains.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt was very surprising \u2014 but it was so much fun,\u201d she exclaims.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0Then she heads back into the crowd to dance again.<\/span><\/p>\n

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