The photo of the parade of 2003 was loaned to us by the Starkweather family. It shows Liberty Starkweather as Queen and Stuart Starkweather marching with the members of the Flint Scottish Pipe Band. (His girl friend, Emily Schell, was the runner-up Queen this year, and he accompanied her to the Irish Ball. (Wore a tux, he did.) He piped all over Flint on St. Paddy's Day, and all over Bay City on Parade Day.
The Starkweather family ancestor, Ezra Franklin Starkweather, came to Oakland Co., Michigan in 1837. His wife, the former Ruth Weston, had migrated with her family in 1827. They were some of Michigan's earliest pioneers, married January 30, 1848, and moved to Birch Run Township where they lived on an 80-acre farm.
Our Queens pageant provides scholarship monies for the Queen and court. Each year a Queen and two princesses are selected based on a personal interview and creativity. Scholarship awards total $2000.
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