Please mark your calendars:
19th Century Apple & Cheese Harvest Festival
Sunday, September 27, 2015, 11:00am-3:00pm

Justin Morrill State Historic Site
214 Morrill Memorial Highway
Strafford, VT 05072

Come celebrate Johnny Appleseed’s birthday with family and friends! Includes face-painting by Charlotte Atkinson, live music with Paul Kifner & Eric Reimanis and friends and an apple pie contest with prizes, including gift certificates to popular local businesses. Make your own cider in an antique press, taste heirloom apples, fine artisan Vermont Cheeses, ice cream and homemade apple pie! Play period games, hike the lookout trail and play Valley Quest. Also features gardens, exhibits, an icehouse, ice pond and a historic home decorated with gingerbread designs. Rain or shine. $10 adults – $5 under 14 (includes lunch)

Tickets can be purchased online, but preregistration is not required. You can pay at the gate when you arrive (9/27). To purchase tickets online:

http://store.morrillhomestead.org/shop/apple-cheese-festival-2015/

For more information:

Online: http://www.morrillhomestead.org/news-events/2015-programs-and-events/#18

Phone: 802-765-4288
Email: director@morrillhomestead.org

APPLE PIE CONTEST: Pies must be room temperature and brought to the Morrill Homestead for judging by 10:30am on Sunday, September 27th, 2015. For further information about how to enter the Apple Pie Contest, please contact Donna Hollinger:

Phone: 802-765-4242

Email: pdeotnenra@comcast.net

This event sponsored by Lake Sunapee Bank; Flint, Blake, Boles Roofing; Plymouth Artisan Cheese, Billings Farm Cheddar Cheese, Vermont Farmstead Cheese, Thistle Hill Farm Tarentaise Cheese and Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream.