Winterfest Interview with The Chesapeake Helpers Society
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| Title: | Winterfest Interview with The Chesapeake Helpers Society |
| Interviewer: | Winterfest |
| Interviewee: | The Chesapeake Helpers Society |
| Date(s): | 2012 |
| Medium: | online |
| Fandom(s): | Beauty and the Beast |
| External Links: | Winterfest Interview with The Chesapeake Helpers Society, Archived version |
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In 2012, The Chesapeake Helpers Society was interviewed for Winterfest. The interview includes many photos and videos of a little soft shoe, a conga line and some disco.
Also see List of Beauty and the Beast Fan Interviews. See Winterfest Interview Series.
Some Excerpts
April 1989. There was an ad in "Pipeline" (Do you like/love Beauty and the Beast? Interested in forming a club - our contact # is...) Five people met in Arundel County, Maryland and formed a local fan group for Maryland and Virginia - named after the Chesapeake Bay - Chesapeake Helpers' Society for Beauty and the Beast.
We have always had involvement in community services activities, in keeping with the values of the tunnel community. Our members have actively participated in and donated time and money to such organizations as Breast Cancer Research, Pediatric Aids, Women and Children Shelters, Food Banks, Cat Shelters, National Institute of Health, S.O.M.E. (a local food bank, So OthersMight Eat), literary organizations providing books to children, Arthritis Foundation, Alzheimer's Foundation, Sarcoidosis Foundation, and other organizations that deal with lung diseases.
We started [making Winterfest candles] with the Kingdom by the Sea #1, 1999 convention. The candle making is a family secret, handed down from generation to generation. If we tell you, we'd have to dip you in hot wax and stick a wick on your head - LOL!!
Most of the time when we mention that we are a fan group for the television series Beauty and the Beast, we hear, "Oh, I remember that show." "I loved that show." "Wasn't that the show with that lion guy and/or the Terminator babe?" Also the "WOW!!!" reaction we get when we have gone to various Renaissance Faires with "Vinny", or when "Vinny" shows up on Bourbon Street in New Orleans, or Griffith Park in LA, or at subway stations and on the streets of NYC as well as various drainpipes all over the U.S.