MoonPie Celebration Encourages Economic Stimulus, Poetry

Jan 7th, 2009

Mobile City Councilman Fred Richardson welcomed two representatives from downtown hotels who had a lot of good things to say about the MoonPie Over Mobile New Year's Eve Celebration. Justine Burbank from the newly-opened Hampton Inn and Suites and Maura Garino from the newly-renovated Holiday Inn talked about the great sales during the New Year's Holiday. Each talked about being able to market the city for future New Year's celebrations. If the goal was to bring people to downtown, they said, it worked.

Also during the Council meeting, Councilman Clinton Johnson recited a poem that he penned while listening to Councilman Richardson's remarks. It read as follows:

MoonPie for the ages.
Write it on the pages.
As in the night,
The light of the MoonPie engages.
My friend Fred can't get to sleep
Until he takes a MoonPie peep.
Good night, he says, as he readies to retire.
I'll love you MoonPie until the day i die.

Richardson later responded with prose of his own:

A Moon Pie Over Mobile, a sight for all to see,
I stood in the crowd that night while thousands watched with me.
A crane it took to hoist the pie, with lights flashing very bright,
It startled all as they looked on this cold, cold New Year's night.
Chattanooga Bakery was on the scene with the World's Largest Moon Pie,
RC Cola was there as well, when the electric pie lit the sky.
Mobile is now the City of Dreams, the Moon Pie confirmed this fact,
I'll await this event next year, when the Mobile Moon Pie comes back.
I commend you Mobile for this joyous event, don't let them steal your story,
Keep raising your Moon Pie for years to come — watch the Moon Pie bring you glory!