The Massey Hill Lions Club presents the 53rd Shuck’n for Sight Oyster Roast, an all you can eat event, held on Jan. 31, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. The oyster roast will take place at 1613 Camden Road. Tickets are $50 and are available at Massey Hill Drug Store, 1072 Southern Ave., at Classic Coiffure’s Hair and Nail Salon, 3710 Morganton Rd. or by texting Michael McCaskill at 910-551-4662 or by email at [email protected]. No tickets will be sold at the door. This is a dine in only event, and no take out containers are allowed.
“The annual event provides the Massey Hill Lions Club the opportunity to bring people together from far and wide for their ‘All You Can Eat Event.’ This is the 53rd Annual Shuck’n for Sight Oyster Roast, where they serve more than two hundred bushels of oysters to more than seven hundred attendees,” said Michael McCaskill, a past president of the Massey Hill Lions Club. “This annual event hosted by the Lions Club is a community wide event for those who love to shuck oysters. This is one of the largest single-day oyster roasts on the East Coast, and most attendees are long-term, and several come from Louisiana, Tennessee, Virginia, South Carolina, and New Jersey. From “Professional Oysters” that bring in their own concoctions of special sauces, lemons, and specialized shucking tools to first-time attendees, no one leaves the event hungry,” McCaskill said. “The Oyster Roast keeps the spirit of Massey Hill alive with this community event and is most like a family reunion with familiar faces. Multiple levels of society come together, such as politicians, business owners, truck drivers, attorneys, multiple generations, workers, laborers; all sharing the love of the oyster roast.
“As one individual stated it …. you can have a Judge on one end of the table shucking an oyster right along with someone they have just fined in a court case,” McCaskill said…