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The idea for Seafair
was the brainchild of a Rockport man, Bill Christian in 1974. He
believed the area needed a celebration in the fall to fill the
lull between the summer visitors and the arrival of winter
tourists.
Though the event has
grown since the first event, it remains very much the same as
Christian envisioned it. Art, a parade, arts and crafts,
entertainment, water skiing demonstrations and a gumbo cookoff
were part of the very first Seafair. They remain today as major
attractions.
They formed their on
Board of Directors, became a non-profit organization, and ran up
until the year 2000. In April of 2000, Pam Farley, President of
Seafair at the time came to a Rockport-Fulton Area Chamber of
Commerce Board of Directors meeting and requested that the Chamber
take it over. After much discussion, the Chamber Board voted to
take on the event. That year, during the Seafair the community
experienced the coldest of cold fronts for that time period and
four solid days of rain. |
