2nd Annual Sadie Hawkins Day Shotgun Shoot  
2nd Annual Sadie Hawkins Day Shotgun Shoot
Open to AGC members and Guests!
Date:
Saturday, November 9, 2013
Times:
Club Shoot: 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Picnic: 1:00 PM until ?
Sadie Hawkins Day pins: $2.50 (while they last!)
Loaner shotguns available. Ammunition will be available thru the AGC!
Trap Range - Wobble Trap #4
Associated Gun Clubs of Baltimore
11518 Marriottsville Road
Marriottsville, MD 21104
The origin of Sadie Hawkins Day: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sadie_Hawkins_Day
In Li'l Abner, Sadie Hawkins was the daughter of one of Dogpatch's earliest settlers, Hekzebiah Hawkins. The "homeliest gal in all them hills", she grew frantic waiting for suitors to come a-courtin'. When she reached the age of 35, still a spinster, her father was even more frantic-about Sadie living at home for the rest of her life. In desperation, he called together all the unmarried men of Dogpatch and declared it "Sadie Hawkins Day". Specifically, a foot race was decreed, with Sadie in hot pursuit of the town's eligible bachelors-and matrimony as the consequence. It seems likely that the concept's origins lie in an inversion of the myth of Atalanta, who, reluctant to marry, agreed to wed whoever could outrun her in a footrace.
"When ah fires [my gun], all o' yo' kin start a-runnin! When ah fires agin-after givin' yo' a fair start-Sadie starts a runnin'. Th' one she ketches'll be her husbin." The town spinsters decided that this was such a good idea, they made Sadie Hawkins Day a mandatory yearly event, much to the chagrin of Dogpatch bachelors. In the satirical spirit that drove the strip, many sequences revolved around the dreaded Sadie Hawkins Day race. If a woman caught a bachelor and dragged him, kicking and screaming, across the finish line before sundown-by law he had to marry her.
Sadie Hawkins Day was first mentioned in the November 15, 1937 Li'l Abner daily strip, with the race actually taking place between November 19 and November 30 in the continuity. It would prove to be a popular annual feature in Li'l Abner, and a cultural phenomenon outside the strip. (see Schreiner, Dave; "Sadie's First Run", Li'l Abner Dailies Volume 3: 1937, Kitchen Sink Press, Princeton, WI, pg. 8.)
Celebrate Sadie Hawkins Day with us, and get some practice for the Leukemia Lymphoma Society Charity Trap Shoot on the 16th!
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