{"id":198876,"date":"2026-04-16T01:58:34","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T01:58:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/198876\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T01:58:34","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T01:58:34","slug":"brooklyn-merriman-crowned-2026-miss-alabama-strawberry-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/198876\/","title":{"rendered":"Brooklyn Merriman crowned 2026\u00a0Miss Alabama Strawberry Festival\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cullmantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/MAIN-Strawberry-Queen-Brooklynn-Merriman-scaled.jpeg\" data-caption=\"2026 Miss Alabama Strawberry Festival Brooklyn Merriman (Anabelle Howze\/The Cullman Tribune) \" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"598\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/MAIN-Strawberry-Queen-Brooklynn-Merriman-696x598.jpeg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"MAIN Strawberry Queen Brooklynn Merriman\"\/><\/a>2026 Miss Alabama Strawberry Festival Brooklyn Merriman (Anabelle Howze\/The Cullman Tribune) <\/p>\n<p>CULLMAN, Ala.\u00a0\u2013\u00a0The\u00a0Miss\u00a0Alabama Strawberry Festival\u00a0Pageant continues to play a key role in one of Cullman\u2019s most\u00a0anticipated\u00a0annual events. This year\u2019s pageant was held\u00a0Saturday, April 12, at\u00a0the\u00a0Desperation Church Student Center.\u00a0Fairview High School\u2019s\u00a0Brooklyn Merriman took home the crown.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The pageant has been part of the festival for\u00a0decades. While it was once held during\u00a0festival weekend, organizers now host it in advance so\u00a0Miss\u00a0Alabama\u00a0Strawberry Festival\u00a0can take part in festival activities.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As the Strawberry Festival has grown throughout the years, so has the pageant.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it\u2019s a great local pageant,\u201d\u00a0Cullman Parks, Recreation &amp; Sports Tourism Program Coordinator Jamie Kirk said. \u201cNow that we\u2019ve expanded to the Alabama Strawberry Festival, we have participants from all over Alabama.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The pageant\u00a0It\u00a0includes nine age divisions, beginning with infants and continuing through 12th grade.\u00a0Miss Alabama Strawberry Festival\u00a0is crowned from the 10th-12th grade category and serves as an ambassador for the festival. In that role,\u00a0she\u00a0attends the festival,\u00a0participates\u00a0in activities and is available for photos with attendees. She is also invited to\u00a0represent\u00a0the festival at other community events throughout the year, including Oktoberfest and the Christkindlmarkt.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Alabama Strawberry Festival will take place April 24-25 at Depot Park. Learn more at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.alabamastrawberryfest.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">www.alabamastrawberryfest.com<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\"\/><\/a>        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2026 Miss Alabama Strawberry Festival Brooklyn Merriman (Anabelle Howze\/The Cullman Tribune) CULLMAN, Ala.\u00a0\u2013\u00a0The\u00a0Miss\u00a0Alabama Strawberry Festival\u00a0Pageant continues to play&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":198877,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,620,610,79196,9,24,12,63,62624],"class_list":["post-198876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-featured","tag-local","tag-miss-alabama-strawberry-festival","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-strawberry-festival"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198876\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}