Hundreds of people swarm to Annapolis, Maryland, each year for the Annapolis Oyster Roast & Sock Burning festival, NPR reported. This year’s event on March 21 said goodbye to one of the coldest winters on Chesapeake Bay. Kelly Swartout of the local maritime museum said the event started in 1977, when “a local sailor got so fed up with the cold weather that he decided he was going to take his socks off and burn them.” Festival attendee Scot Labin said he brought a sock with a hole in it and the “Egyptian cotton socks that your mom got you,” because no one wears dress socks anymore. It’s “a good party,” he said. [NPR, 3/26/2026]

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