PurpleHull Pea Festival

World Cup PurpleHull Pea Shelling Competition at the Emerson PurpleHull Pea Festival (Columbia County); 2006.

Row of women shelling purple hull peas seated on plastic chairs stage curtains in background

Photo by Bill Dailey

Media

Time Period

Divergent Prosperity and the Arc of Reform (1968–2022)

Type

Event

Gender

Female

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