Reids Apple Festival

From Reids Apple Festival Website:

Reids Apple Festival 2016
October 15th, 10:00-6:00
October 16th, 12:00 - 6:00

Always interested in how they could give back to their local community, Billy and Kathy Reid started the Apple Festival as way to invite the community together to celebrate, educate, and provide for one another. Together they visited area festivals to see what they could offer to bring their community together on their family farm. With connections through family and friends they organized crafters, food booths, wagon rides, etc and the Apple Festival was born on an idea of giving back, promoting homegrown produce, as well as a whole lot of community help!

Fun Fact: The Apple Festival was originally going to be christened The Pumpkin Festival due to being held in the Fall of the year, but was changed just one week prior to the festivals debut. The Reids decided to go with the name The Apple Festival because after all, Thats what were all about!

The Apple Festival started off with a mere 20 craft booths, three little rides for the younger children, and approximately 8 food booths. The Thruston Fire Dept has also attended the past 20 years to teach fire safety and to be on hand for minor emergencies.

Fun Fact: The Daviess County Pork Producers showed up for the first Apple Festival with their lawn chairs prepared to relax as they cooked their famous pork sandwiches for festival goers, but they were so busy that they never got to use them.

Craft Booths: In the beginning, we wanted people to demonstrate their craft for the crowd. The craft booths have grown from 20 to 90 handmade craft booths. We still encourage people to demo their craft today.

Carnival Rides: A local family business, Casey Rides, has provided entertainment for children from the very first year. The first year they started off with 3 little rides for the younger children. Today they bring around 20 rides & activities for all age groups.

Food Booths: Several food booths were organized by community organizations which in turn donated their profits back to the community. Come hungry and prepare to eat like a king on variety of delicious foods!