National Accordionist Relocation Program (NARP)

First Annual Accordion Blast, June, 2003 (Click on image to enlarge)

In 1899 congress passed an unfunded mandate, that each county should have an accordion player.  Amazingly, nothing happened becaue no body liked "Lady of Spain", and Dick Contino had not been born yet.  Then!!  NARP came along.   This law was enacted after the 1970 census, when it was discovered that North Carolina, and numerous other states had an extremely  low (A/H), "Accordion to Household"  ratio. .  The Federal Government, in an effort to relieve accordionist overcrowding in states like Ohio, Pennsylvania, Illinois, and part of the Catskills in NY, initiated NARP (The National Accordionist Relocation Program) to redistribute accordionists fairly to the states with low A/H ratios.  San Francisco, CA, and Seattle, WA opted out of the program, completely,  in order to preserve their assets.  Consequently, Pamlico County now has enough accordionists, in residence,  to front an Annual Accordion Blast., celebrated in June as National Accordion Awareness Month. 
Ironically, this program is  very similar to the Federal Witness Protection  Program, which has been rumored to have helped populate Pamlico County for the past 30 years.