Chamber Executive Director Jamie Hillery took tickets and made sales at a table as customers kept up a brisk pace, collecting their orders of boiled crawfish and/or boiled shrimp with the traditional trimmings of potatoes and corn on the cob. Drinks were also available.

The event is not a fundraiser, Hillery said, just a way of lifting the quality of life: "We just wanted to create fellowship in our community, to get people to come out and enjoy a day in the park with some good music and food and just bring our community together to hang out together and eat food."

She said the food was purchased and prepared by Lagniappe Specialty Meats of Texarkana, Arkansas. "For the last eight years, they've been kind of a staple here with our crawfish boil, and they cook amazing," Hillery said.

The food was served by many area volunteers including Miss Junior Nevada County Fair Queen Dacey Faulkner and Nevada County Clerk Tammie Rose. 

This writer can also attest that every item was tasty, and the atmosphere was festive.  Providing the music was Camden radio station Y95, which sent two radio personalities to remotely broadcast from the park pavilion.