Enjoy fall with a weekend full of harvest season festivals. Whether it’s apples you crave or pumpkins you want to carve, you will have plenty of options this Columbus Day weekend. Want to build a hobbit house or take a hayride through a 100-yearold New England farm? You can do either — or both. So get in the spirit of the season and head to one of these fall celebrations.
Newburyport Harvest Festival Where: Downtown Newburyport, Mass. When: Sunday, Oct. 8, and Monday, Oct. 9, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Cost: Attendance is free. Shopping and food available Visit: newburyportchamber.org or call 978-462-6680
Scarecrows decorate downtown Newburyport. Courtesy photo.
Apple Harvest Day Where: Downtown Dover When: Saturday, Oct. 7, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Cost: Admission is free. There is food available for purchase. Visit: dovernh.org/apple-harvest-day or call 742-2218.
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Dover Apple Harvest Day
Dover Apple Harvest Day welcomes more than 50,000 people during the weekend of fall-themed entertainment. The daylong event shuts down streets in downtown Dover and fills them with apple-themed vendors, games and live entertainment. The annual event has been held since 1985. With so many people attending, the Dover Chamber of Commerce has decided to incorporate new features that have been requested by visitors over the years, according to Chamber President Molly Hodgson. “The committee has been very responsive as the festival has gotten bigger and bigger, and really adapted to how the event has grown and changed,” said Hodgson. This year, there will be a new Doggy Refresher Station where dogs and their owners can go to a shaded area and cool off if the weather is unseasonably warm. The station will also have water to hydrate the dogs and will be surrounded by dog-related vendors like K9 Kaos, a Dover-based doggy daycare. New facilities also include a family station where families can get out of the heat and charge their phones at the cell phone charging stations. Senior programs are being held for the first time this year to educate older folks and their families about services in the area. 10
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Newburyport, Massachusetts, kicks off its fall season with the annual Harvest Festival with vendors and shops attracting customers to the port-side market square. Vendors and shops will be open throughout the day with local products for sale, including food and crafts. The historic brick market square in downtown Newburyport is known as the Bull Nose. “It’s meant to be a place for people to gather,” said Ann Ormond, president of the Newburyport Chamber of Commerce. “We have a very compact and very walkable downtown district.” Scattered throughout the market square are scarecrows designed by Newburyport residents and shop owners. The scarecrows are made out of burlap and either real or plastic pumpkins. The scarecrows are part of a craft competition to see who has the most original design. A people’s choice award is given to the scarecrow that gets the most votes from visitors. “The people are very creative … [and] that adds to the festivity of the whole weekend,” said Ormond. A jury-selected group of arts and crafts vendors will showcase their work at the festival. Ormond said the vendors have handmade pieces including jewelry, photography, handmade dolls and clothes. More than 100 shops in downtown Newburyport also will remain open during the festival, according to Ormond. There will be an additional 60 vendors alongside the shops that are already open and 10 restaurants ready for the Harvest Festival crowd. “You can have it all. A lot of people will come and have something from one of the food booths and then take a load off and relax and enjoy the community,” Ormond said. There could be some surprises, too, with pop-up performances happening throughout the weekend, according to Ormond.
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Newburyport Harvest Festival
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