The Shad Planking

Yesterday was the 58th Annual Shad Planking, an old-time Virginia political event held near Route 460 in Sussex County memorialized in Garrett Epps' great Virginia novel, "The Shad Treatment." A Washington Post political blogger also has a pretty good account of the event.

edit: More on the Shad Planking from National Journal and the Richmond Times-Dispatch on its yuppification.