Wet, but festive Apple Blossom fete held
Not even the weather
keeps large crowds away
BY JUDY HULL
ARENPTSVILLE - Mother
Nature was less than cooperative,
but last weekend’s 34th Annual
Apple Blossom Festival in Adams
County was attended by sizable
crowds of visitors despite the wet
weather.
The two-day festival got off to a
better start weatherwise on
Saturday. This marked only the
third year that the full weekend
schedule was followed and this
year’s crowd more than doubled
last year’s opening day. Buses
filled with tourists arrived from all
over the East Coast to tour or
chards, view the blossoms and
browse through the festival
headquarters at the South
Mountain Fairgrounds.
But on Sunday, the rains came,
Some went bobbing
A floating Golden Delicious is not the easiest thing to
chomp on to, but young and old tried last weekend in Adams
County.
No festival is complete without apple pie eating contests.
Some festival-goers preferred old-fashioned hayride through orchards, while others Both youn * s^ers arK * adults competed in Adams County,
toured through blossoming trees in buses.
but also so did a number of charter
buses and faithful local festival
goers. Sunday’s highlights in
cluded the crowning of the new
Adams County Apple Queen and
the auctioning off of the winning
pies in the apple pie baking con
test.
New Apple Queen, with a very
appropriate name for the day, is
Missy Showers, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. James Showers, fruit
growers from R 1 Aspers.
The annual festival has grown
significantly over the more than
past three decades of sponsorship
by the Adams County
Fruitgrowers Association. It’s the
traditional kickoff of another
growing season for the county’s
more than 20,000 acres of fruit
orchards.
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Sales of apples, cider and apple butter were brisk last Saturday and even on Sunday
despite wet weather at Apple Blossom Festival.
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