Nov 16, 2022

March For Moosylvania


Moosylvania Statehood Rally
Jay Ward Productions (1962)
The first annual Week Before Thanksgiving Day Parade and Moosylvania Statehood Rally was scheduled to take place sixty years ago today on Friday, November 16th.  This flier, featuring artwork by The Munsters co-creator Allan Burns, announced a parade to take place at an undisclosed location  [image source: The Art Of Jay Ward Productions].

Tulsa World Daily (November 21, 1962)

I was hoping to find photos that were taken at the Moosylvania Statehood Rally, but none turned up.  However, I did manage to find a few references to the parade which took place in Manhattan.

Tulsa World Daily (November 21, 1962)

Moosylvania
Where the wind is oozing down in pain
Cause the swampy peat beneath your feet
Is a sloshy soggy natural drain

Moosylvania
In the night my frantic hand and I
Clutch toward a hawk's
Last gurgling squawks
Half submerged and just about to die

You know you belong to the land
When you're buried alive in the sand
And when they say
Look, his face is getting gray
We'll know it's true cause
You're mostly slime

Moosylvania
Let's pray

How are things in Moosylvania
Does that fetid swamp still fester there?
Does it still give off the pungent smell
Of muscatel and sweaty grizzly bear?

How are things in Moosylvania?
Are the tse-tse flies still swarming there?
Do they still buzz and raze a town
Like Smelly Bear, Ben Casey, or Kildare?

So I'll ask each Venus Flytrap
That I meet along the way
And each lad that comes a'whistling oy, oy vay
How are things in Moosylvania this fine day?