On the 25th anniversary of Gloucester’s Middle Street Walk, there is an effort to entice more entries into its annual gingerbread contest on the occasion of the Gloucester’s 400+ anniversary.
“This is our 25th year and we are trying to get the information out early about the push for entries in the Gingerbread ‘Creation’ Contest. Our number of entries has been down the last few years and we have been trying to drum up business,” said Gloria Parsons, one of the organizers.
“We have changed it from a Gingerbread ‘House’ Contest to a ‘Creation,’ hoping it would be less intimating to people who have never made a gingerbread house.”
Those creations could be anything, such as a gingerbread robot, a camper, a boat, a sleigh, a train, a lighthouse or whatever object one’s imagination may create.
In fact, Maggie Rosa, a resident and member of the City Hall Restoration Commission, decided she was going to crotchet a “gingerbread village,” in her interpretation of the call for entries.
Barbara Catalini, former owner of Cakes by Barbara, and Ros Puleo will be judges again this year for the Middle Street Walk on Saturday, Dec. 9, from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
For more information, visit middlestreetwalk.org.
— Gail McCarthy