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Sunday, October 5, 2014

The Newport Harvest Festival

It was a chilly day, our first one in Tennessee this fall. Lisa and I attended the Newport Harvest Festival yesterday in downtown Newport. It is the 29th annual one and it is set up on the main drag in downtown Newport. There were crafts, lots of food, rides for the kiddies and the Miss Newport Pageant. I did see Miss Greeneville but they had not crowned Miss Newport yet. We walked around the entire festival and looked at all of the booths. We tried a cheese filled pretzel, it was okay, and one of the local churches were handing out freshly picked apples, they were good! We shook hands with the local politicians running for the various county offices and even received a carry all bag with some goodies in it. We even ran into some people we had just met at church last Sunday. After a couple of hours we left the festival. The Newport Harvest Festival is the first of many fall festivals in the next few week ends. Next week end is Parrottsville's festival then there will be Cosby's, Del Rio's and Morristown's. So for the next few week ends we know we will be doing at least one thing; visiting fall festivals. After we left the fall festival we went on a wild goose chase looking for a Pumpkin Patch that we have been curious about now since we got here. Along Highway 321 there is a sign that advertises a Pumpkin Patch and when I Googled it there was some information about only being open on week ends so we figured we would check it out. Well, I am sad to say that we drove miles out of our way for nothing. The farm is not doing a patch this year. I am not going to give up yet. With so many farms around this area one of them has to be doing some kind of a pumpkin patch. My search is on! Check back for the results!

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