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3 unusual facts about Shad Planking


Shad Planking

The Shad Planking is an annual political event in Virginia which takes place every April near Wakefield in Sussex County.

In his 1977 novel, "The Shad Treatment," legal scholar, novelist, and journalist Garrett Epps called the event "a yearly gathering of the white men in Southside Virginia -- no blacks, no women allowed -- where the shirt-sleeve politicians . . . gathered to look over the political leadership."

The site is the wooded property of a sportsmen's club near U.S. Route 460 near the incorporated town of Wakefield in Sussex County, about an hour southeast of the Virginia State Capitol at Richmond.


American shad

On the year of every gubernatorial election, would-be candidates, lobbyists, campaign workers, and reporters gather in the town of Wakefield, Virginia for Shad Planking.

Shad

On the year of every gubernatorial election, would-be candidates, lobbyists, campaign workers, and reporters gather in the town of Wakefield, Virginia for shad planking.


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