1/5 Event sponsor Curtis Cowan works to help get the event underway. – Karen Kistler

Karen Kistler

karen.kistler@salisburypost.com

EAST SPENCER — What started as a small backyard gathering has turned into a huge community event.

Curtis Cowan, mayor pro-tem of East Spencer, has sponsored an annual pig pickin’ for 20 years, an event started by him and his uncle. It began in 2005 in his backyard and is now one that normally draws between 300 and 400 people, he said.

Not having seen it but having heard about people in South Carolina who cook pigs underground and others grilling whole hogs, Cowan said this made him want to try it and experience it.

And while he doesn’t cook the pig underground, Cowan said they did start cooking a pig on the grill and other then people heard about it, wh

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