MCDADE – The Mc-Dade Watermelon Festival will be host to the 75th annual queen’s revue June 24 in preparation for the milestone celebration at 143 Bastrop St.Carried out on the festival grounds’ pavilion, queens will be judged for the tiny tot, junior and teen categories. Set to begin their reign at the watermelon day parade, July 8, queens will represent the McDade festival float at nearly 20 other central Texas town gatherings.Queens will also receive scholarship benefits, upkeeping the festivals tradition of donation.After the town’s school burned down 75 years ago, the inaugural Mc-Dade watermelon festival was held to raise ...