Say what you will about the tenets of national civil war. At least it grew a lot of beards. Mark your calendars my east coast beard growing friends, there's a new beard compo in town. Or, in Fredericksburg* which is reasonably close to a few towns. I have it on good authority that we'll even have some SweetBeard members surely winning engaging in healthy competition.

See http://www.loveforthebeard.com/ for more details.

*Yes Fredericksburg, and yes the ad copy is civil war themed. No, this won't be a bunch of reenactment geeks in tents for the weekend. Unless by reenact you mean "grow beards" and by tent you mean "and support charity."