After a three-year hiatus, the annual Fall Harvest Festival is returning to Newlin Grist Mill on Saturday, Oct. 7 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The last one was in 2019.
The festival will feature a variety of demonstrations and displays of traditional skills and trades. This year’s theme, Food Traditions Past and Present, will highlight historic foods and cooking, along with the trades that made it possible to put food on the table in early America. Scheduled demonstrations and displays include open-hearth cooking, beer brewing and cider making, primitive fire making, colonial herbs and spices, early American horticulture, and Chinese tea traditions.
Woodworking, textile arts, and silhouette cutting will be demonstrated, and the Millwright Shop and Blacksmith Shop will also be open throughout the day.
The festival will also include plenty of hands-on activities and entertainment for all ages. Visitors can learn colonial dancing with the Heritage Dancers, listen to the historical harmonies of the Colonial Revelers singers, enjoy performances by Tuckers’ Tales Puppet Theatre, and play traditional games. Family activities from years past will be returning, including face painting, pumpkin painting, and hayrides.
A Colonial Market will offer up handcrafted goods for sale, including soap, woodcrafts, historic pantry and toiletry offerings from The Georgian Kitchen, and fresh baked goods straight out of the Half-Crown Bakehouse’s wood-fired oven. The Tavern will feature beverages from Deer Creek Malthouse and Penns Woods Winery. Food trucks will also be onsite offering delicious 21st-century eats.
Admission to the Fall Harvest Festival is free but parking is $5 per car. Shuttle buses between the parking area and the festival site will run every 15 minutes throughout the event. Additional costs apply for hayrides and pumpkin painting. For more information, visit www.newlingristmill.org or call the site at 610-459- 2359.
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