Fairhaven’s Harvest Fun Day will be Saturday, October 14
Bring the family to celebrate autumn at Fairhaven’s 5th annual Harvest Fun Day, to be held on Saturday, October 14, 2017, on the lawn of Fairhaven High School at the Visitors Center, 141 Main Street. It will be held from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Harvest Fun Day features a varied group of 48 booths by local organizations and businesses with arts & crafts, home décor, children’s activities, food, and sweet treats.
Children’s activities include a bounce house, face painting and henna designs by Heart Body Arts, craft making with Learning House Preschool, pumpkin painting with Supreme Perfectionists Dancers, and other games and activities. Kids can also decorate cookies, do nail painting and make slime! You can take a photo with princesses and meet Buttons the Bear from Carousel Family Fun Center. And children can take a seat in an old-time McCormick Farmall tractor for a photo opportunity, courtesy of Ronald Hammond, or climb in a hay wagon from J & L Beaulieu Farm Stand.
Items for sale include, doll bedding and accessories, home décor made from recycled lumber, homemade soaps, unique wooden bird houses, body scrubs, photographs by DLemma Photography, decorative wreaths, pet treats and accessories, crochet and knit baby blankets and hats, hand painted mugs and plates, hand woven rag rugs, block prints, planted containers, herbal teas and more. Author Rachel Spaulding will be selling and signing her book, In Search of Ellen Marie.
In front of the high school, the FHS Honor Society will be holding a car wash.
When hunger sets in, food choices include caçoila sandwiches and hotdogs from the North Fairhaven Improvement Association booth, as well as chowder from The Bayside Lounge. Mike’s Restaurant will sell lobster rolls. Emma Jean’s will be selling apple cider donuts, fruit pies, whoopie pies, and other treats The Lions Club is offering apple crisp. There will also be fudge from Dorothy Cox’s, Del’s Frozen Lemonade, baked goods from the VFW Auxiliary, bottled water and soda.
All through the day, classic hits from “the Good Old Days” will be played by Ken Souza of KJ Tunes.
Harvest Fun Day is organized and sponsored by the Fairhaven Office of Tourism. Admission is free and there’s parking in the Fairhaven High School lots. For more information, call 508-979-4085 or email FairhavenTours@fairhaven-ma.gov.
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