8th Annual Shoreham Apple Fest
Sunday, September 18th, 2016 Noon to 4pm
Shoreham Town Green & Gazebo- Family-friendly FUN!
Apple Fest will be held on Sunday, September 18th at the Shoreham town green and gazebo. Delicious food, live music, an apple pie contest, a farmers’ market, children’s activities (including a bounce house!) and a Selfie Scavenger Hunt will be featured at the afternoon-long event. Apple Fest is an annual fall fundraiser for the Friends of the Platt Memorial Library and is a public event open to all.
Enter our Selfie Scavenger Hunt! For this adventure, you’ll take 15 selfies in and around Shoreham to celebrate our town’s premier crop - 10 of which can only be taken at Apple Fest! Complete the Scavenger Hunt and be entered in a raffle to win a Grand Prize. There are two levels of competition, the Full Version ($10 donation) and the Lite Version ($5 donation). Complete the Full Version, bring your photos and donation to one of our volunteers, and you could win the $50 Grand Prize! Complete the Lite Version, bring your photos and donation to one of our volunteers, and you could win free dessert for yourself and up to 6 team mates!
Register and receive the scavenger hunt here: https://goo.gl/forms/6cR4qFwAWURc9aqa2
The Library will offer for sale a lunch of pulled pork sandwiches with slaw, mac’n cheese, apple desserts and cider. Entertainment will be provided by the traditional Irish music band Extra Stout. Farmers’ Market vendors will be selling fresh vegetables and apples, bottles of locally produced apple hard cider and ice cider, several types of locally bottled spirits, cheeses, eggs, farm raised meat, honey, maple products, candied apples, jams, jellies and handmade arts and crafts. Relax and enjoy a glass of hard or fresh sweet cider at the cocktail garden!
Enter a pie in the “Best Apple Pie” contest. There will be 2 entry categories: youth (under the age of 16) and adults (16 and older). Individuals or teams are encouraged to enter. Contest rules, entry forms, and information about prizes can be found at Shoreham’s Platt Memorial Library, orchards throughout Addison County, or downloaded here:
http://bit.ly/2cnlvYI
In addition to other fun activities, we will draw the winner of the 2016 Art Raffle. The beautiful watercolor painting by Shoreham artist Deborah Holmes depicts apple blossoms and view from Shoreham’s own Douglas Orchard. Visit the library to purchase a raffle ticket, or buy tickets at Apple Fest. Individual tickets are $5 or five for $20. Proceeds will benefit the library’s building fund, which was depleted after our renovation of the Vermont Room.
This year, we are pleased to highlight the accomplishment of the children who participated in our Summer Reading Race reading incentive program. They read 1887 books and earned a bounce house which will be free and open during Apple Fest.
Apple Fest has free admission and will run from Noon to 4:00 pm, rain or shine. For more information about Apple Fest call Carol Causton (897-2747) or Judy Stevens (897-7031)
To learn more about the Shoreham Apple Fest visit our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/Shoreham-Apple-Fest-214810368563047/