FPS staff report
September 23, 2008
The 26th annual Atwood Area Fall Festival will be held Oct. 3-5 at the Atwood Lake Campgrounds.
Held Annually the first weekend in October, the festival offers an Intertribal “Pow Wow”, Mountain Man encampment, crafters, food, entertainment, antique displays and demonstrations, car shows and much more.
The festival opens at 10 a.m. Friday with high school band shows, petting zoo, and musical entertainment. A haunted hayride sponsored by the Tusky Valley Ruritans will begin at 8 p.m. on Friday and Saturday evenings. Admission to the hayride is $5. Saturday’s activities will include a jack-o-lantern contest and family scavenger hunt, along with a ventriloquist, juggler, cloggers, musical entertainment, magician, kiddie tractor pulls and more.
Gates open at 7 a.m. Sunday for the Classic Glass Corvette Club Car Show. Registration begins at 8 a.m. Judging begins at 10 a.m. DJ Spikeman will spin tunes at noon. A worship service is scheduled at 9 a.m. Music, crafts, a fall foliage hike, a magician and much more entertainment is scheduled for Sunday.
Several activities will be held daily including a clown and the organ grinders. The mountain men encampment will be held during the entire festival. They will discharge the cannon at 9 a.m., 12 and 3 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. Radio controlled model planes will be doing aerial antics 1-4 p.m. Friday, 11 -4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.
Festival hours are 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday. Admission is $5 per person, with children under age 14 free. Senior day is Oct. 3 and those 55 or older pay a $2 admission fee. A full weekend pass can be purchased for $10 per person. |
