{"id":228418,"date":"2026-05-12T12:01:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T12:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/228418\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T12:01:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T12:01:10","slug":"queen-genevieve-ohio-river-sternwheel-festival-pageant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/228418\/","title":{"rendered":"Queen Genevieve, Ohio River Sternwheel Festival Pageant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">PARKERSBURG, W.Va. (WTAP) &#8211; Ohio River Sternwheel Festival has crowned a Queen for the past 50 years to represent the festival, Marietta, and the Ohio Valley Area. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Applications can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/sternwheel.org\/events\/queen-genevieve\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/sternwheel.org\/events\/queen-genevieve\/\">online<\/a> or they can contact Sandy Wiseman at 740-350-5578 or Gabby Gramkow at 740-516-8903. Deadline for entries is June 30, 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Pageant will be held on September 12, 2026 at the Lafayette Hotel in Marietta. The public portion of the competition will be at 11:30 am with the coronation of our new queen at 6:30 PM on the Marietta Levee. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The queen is selected from young ladies that live in the Mid-Ohio Valley area and are ages 17 &#8211; 22 years. Contestants are high school seniors or enrolled in college\/university. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The pageant awards $3750 in scholarships and hopes to increase that amount this year. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The contestants are judged on public speaking, community activities, academic achievement, personal interview, on-stage poise and appearance and knowledge of the festival. The Queen\u2019s committee is adding an optional Essay Contest to the Queens pageant &#8211; \u201cYour Favorite Female American and How She Has Affected the Growth of America.\u201d They will be awarding an additional scholarship for the winner of this Essay Contest. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Current Queen Alexa Wilson has enjoyed her reign. Some of her favorite parts include the ride on the sternwheeler over the summer, helping with the Little Miss and Mister pageant, and the car show. <\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WTAP. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PARKERSBURG, W.Va. (WTAP) &#8211; Ohio River Sternwheel Festival has crowned a Queen for the past 50 years to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":228419,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-228418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228418","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=228418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228418\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}