35th Annual
Oysterfest
Come Join The Fun
& Excitement
March 6 - 9
Thursday, Mar. 6, 2014
Grounds: 5pm-11pm
Arts & Crafts Tent: 5 pm-10 pm
Friday, Mar. 7, 2014
Grounds: 5pm-10pm
Arts & Crafts Tent: 5 pm-10 pm
Saturday, Mar. 8, 2014
Parade Starts At 11 am
Grounds: 10am-midnight
Arts & Crafts Tent: 10 pm-10 pm
Sunday, Mar. 9, 2014
Grounds: 10am-6pm
Arts & Crafts Tent: 10 am-6 pm
The town of Fulton is well underway in pulling out all the
stops in preparation for the Annual Oysterfest celebration!
For thirty-five years Fulton has been home to the greatest oyster celebration in Texas and this year’s event will be the largest
and most spectacular to date.
The party begins on Thursday, March 6 from 5pm-10pm and
you can expect all sorts of surprises and fun. With a gate admission of only $1 on Thursday you’ll not only be treated to
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all the oysters you can eat, but a fireworks display that evening that will rock your world. Can you just imagine checking
out the fireworks while sitting high atop a Ferris wheel? Too
much fun and way cool…and that’s just the beginning!
But do you know why the town of Fulton puts on the biggest oyster celebration in the state? Former Fulton Fire Chief,
Les “Googles” Cole explained how it all started in the Fall of
1947. A terrible fire started in Copano Village and soon swept
across Highway 35 into Fulton destroying several houses and
scores of oak trees. The town of Fulton did not have a fire
department at that time and firefighters from Rockport, Corpus Christi, Aransas Pass, along with local residents, worked
for two days trying to put the fire out. Sweeping through the
Fulton Cemetery it even destroyed the wooden crosses that
marked many of the graves.
After the fire, the residents of Fulton decided they needed to
form a fire department. Fifteen men got together and trained
with the Aransas County Emergency Corp., to enable Fulton to form its own Fire Department. The men who bravely
stepped up to the task were: Floyd Rouquette, J.H. Schleider,
Nathan Sprinkle, Gene Sprinkle, G.W. DeForest, Jim Poletti,
T.R. Wendell, Harry Wilson, A.A. Peschki, C.H. Longley, Ernest Jones and Vallie Cole, Jr.