But for the past 85 years, shad planking has survived. Caldwell says the technique was developed by the Native Americans in Southern Maryland, who caught the shad in the Potomac. They eventually ...

Joe Crockett pulls nails from smoked shad at the 64th annual Ruritan Club Shad Planking in Wakefield ... above a trench fire — the same way native Americans did it when they caught shad in ...

I knew just where to get all that: the Wakefiled Ruritan Club’s 65th Annual Shad Planking ... The Ruritans cook them the same way Native Americans did, the same way Civil War soldiers did ...

And even now, a shad planking is a ritual meal for Virginia ... having been transplanted there in the 1880s. In its native rivers, the noble American shad fell on hard times starting in the ...

Over the past four decades, the American ... they would eat shad, but all that’s lost now.” From 1949 to 2017, the Wakefield Ruritan Club hosted an event called Shad Planking.

So, what is a shad planking? The Post's Anita Kumar has ... They planked the fish in the tradition of Virginia's Native Americans and talked politics. The event grew and was taken over by the ...

Marchi is an Albemarle County native who’s been attending the Shad Planking since 1994 ... the former director of the Virginia chapter of Americans for Prosperity.

Historically, Native Americans harvested shad during the spring spawning run ... The second is the traditional “planking.” Comprised of boning the shad filet as best you can and nailing the fillet to ...

The club awards two $3,000 scholarships each year for up to four years. Planking shad goes back to the Native Americans who fished the Connecticut River for at least 5,000 years. In Virginia ...

American shad are native to the east coast. Once introduced into the San ... top rack of his automatic dishwasher set on high dry temperature. The other method is "planking." Bone the shad filet as ...

The renamed Shad Planking and Grapes and Grain Festival ... sported a Mardi Gras mask in the shape of an American flag. “I’m definitely a Republican,” she said. S ...