Fun, Food, and Music at the Andover Day Fair

Fun, food, Smokey Bear, and music will be featured at the Andover Day Fair, on Saturday, August 25, from 11 AM to 2:30 PM. Taste locally-grown produce, listen to local musicians, take a chance on a raffle, learn to fly fish, and shop regional crafts.

The renouned Speckers Band (www.johnspecker.com) featuring fiddle icon John Specker, along with Lila and Ida Mae, will play rousing old-time fiddle music. Triple bows slice the air, heartfelt vocals tell it like it is, and bodies sway in stylistic synchronicity. The adaptable rock trio, Totally Submerged, will cover timeless Beatles and other classic rock favorites as well as original tunes.

Local farmers, crafters and artisans will be selling soaps, quilts, honey, beeswax candles, jewelry, note cards, baby blankets and bibs, Arbonne beauty supplies, doll clothes, flowers, baked goods, as well as mushrooms and other fresh produce. There will be hot dogs, sausage and peppers, meatball subs, and other food and drinks available at the concession stand.

Learn to fly-fish with free casting lessons from Orvis instructor Kyle Leard, and take a chance on the raffle with loads of prizes to win.

There will be plenty of old-fashioned fun for the kids, including a visit from Smokey Bear, a children's wood workshop, an observation bee hive, and a close-up look at a fire truck and an ambulance.

There is no entrance or parking fee for this fundraiser which is being held by the Andover Project Committee. Proceeds from the committee's sale of food, t-shirts, and raffle tickets will support the Andover Scholarship Fund. The fair will take place on the Andover Town Hall grounds, 953 Weston-Andover Road, Andover.