Apple Stirrin’ Time set for Saturday, Sunday in Unionport
UNIONPORT — Unionport Community Grange No. 2728 is sponsoring its 39th-annual Apple Stirrin’ Time this weekend at the event site, located off Jefferson County Road 39 in Unionport.
The festival runs from 8 a.m. to dusk on Saturday and Sunday and includes musical entertainment, antique tractor and engine displays, a car cruise-in, a variety of crafts and food, including homemade apple butter and apples, apple dumplings, apple cider, gingerbread cookies and apple fritters.
Admission, parking and entertainment are free, and free coffee is available Sunday.
The festival site is home to a variety of homemade cabins exuding an old-fashioned living atmosphere. The Country Restaurant offers sandwiches, soups, drinks and desserts; the Country Barn features pancakes and sausage; and the Ye Olde Post Office, which was moved to the site years ago from a nearby small town, showcases local memorabilia.
The log cabin is the setting for cookies of all kinds, including gingerbread men, chocolate chip, peanut butter and oatmeal/raisin.
The Unionport Chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star participated in last year’s event and will return to offer pitzelles, decorated candy apples, pies, bread, noodles, fudge, buckeyes, cookies, pumpkins and gourds for sale.
Various groups also make and sell homemade soup and chili, along with barbecue chicken, pizza, nachos and french fries.
Antique tractors and engines will be on display both days, and there is a car cruise-in set for Sunday.
There will be approximately 40 vendors on hand, and the Christmas cabin features a variety of holiday items and gifts.
Other festival participants will include Boy Scout Troop 192, Girl Scout Troop 4693, the fire department, local churches, senior citizens and youth of the community.
An old-fashioned apple pie baking contest open to anyone is a Saturday attraction with judging at 2 p.m. and three people selected as winners. Overseeing that is Grange member Mary Catherine Mull. Anyone can bring a pie for judging.
Entertainment will include, among others, the Ron Retzer Trio, the Fun Time Dancers, Two Old Geezers and Adam Kiaski.
Funds from the festival help support two $1,000 scholarships the Grange awards.
For information, call Mull at (740) 944-1533 or Bonnie Ault at (740) 944-1446.
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