Playboy After Hours
April, 1990
ShempmaniaDonaldsonville, Louisiana, is an old steamboat town on the banks of the Mississippi River midway between New Orleans and Baton Rouge. Like many small Southern towns, it hosts an annual festival. Usually, such an event celebrates an aspect of local culture—Cajun music, perhaps, or pecans, crawfish or homemade gumbo. In Donaldsonville, community spirit expresses itself in the annual Shemp Festival. You remember Shemp Howard, a founding member of the Three Stooges, who was replaced by (&q...