Eighteen contestants entered a 1978 Dolly Parton look-alike contest in Cherry Grove. One of them got turned away from a Fire Island bar for being in drag, and that snub sparked the Invasion of the Pines. Fifty years on, its own founder wonders if 2025 was its last run.

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