June 1st, 2008

Shaw farm’s 100^th celebration
a huge success!!

 If you missed it, you missed a lot of fun.

The great 100^th birthday party for Shaw Farm the weekend of 6/28 was, in the words of 86 year old Winthrop Shaw, who traveled 3000 miles to attend, “the best event he ever attended”.

Family, friends, customers, and folks that just wanted to help celebrate this historic event, devoured hundreds of pounds of ice cream, had their face painted, milked a cow or checked out our entire herd of cows on their way to take a hay ride.

The kids just had a blast in our scavenger hunt in a hay pile game.  

Saturday began with a live radio hosted by Warren Shaw, current farm owner and 980wcap talk host and  8 am featured a “thanks to you” breakfast served free to Shaw Farm customers loyal for over 50 years.

Congressman Niki Tsongas presented a proclamation from the United States Congress and was followed by Senators Sue Tucker, Steve Panageotakis, Representative Colleen Garry, Lowell Mayor Bud Caulfield along with Dracut Town Manager Dennis Piendak and Selectmen Bob Cox and John Zimini.

Representatives from the new England Green Pastures were also on hand to present the Massachusetts Dairy farm of the year award to the farm. Assistant Commissioner Scott Soares brought with him the support of the Massachusetts Department of Agriculture.

Following the radio broadcast, the fun activities began and the crowds followed.

When the celebration finally wound down at 4pm on Sunday, we still had folks standing in line for our make you own ice cream sundaes.

Many estimated the weekend crowd to be as high as 10 thousand.

Thanks to everyone that stopped by to congratulate the family and to the many friends and family members who worked so hard to make the event such a stunning success.

A special thanks to our friends at 980wcap for a great on the farm radio broadcast and to The Lowell Sun for a fabulous insert flier done on our history.

Now that our big celebration is over its back to farm work for the rest of the summer.

In future newsletters I will let you know whats happenimg on the farm and an update on the progress of our new bottling facility coming up later this year.

warren