- Stacey Greenberg, Fertile Ground
Paul Gagliano loves hot wings and that was a good enough reason to launch the Southern Hot Wing Contest & Festival back in 2002.
The festival, a fund-raiser for the Ronald McDonald House, returns Saturday, April 21st, 11 a.m.-6 p.m., and it marks its 10th year with a move from South Main to Jefferson Davis Park and Riverside Drive.
The first Southern Hot Wings Contest was held in the parking lot of the Poplar Lounge. There were seven teams.
“I was nervous,” remembers Gagliano about the 2002 event. “My friends didn’t think it would work.”
Adding to Gagliano’s jitters was the light rain that morning. “Then,” he says, “God parted the clouds … “
