Summerfestive
Every year, we are lucky enough to have the Summerfest family festival explode in our front yard. This year’s theme was Cruisin’ Back to the 50’s. Booth owners (non-prof) all try to outdo each other with their themed decorations.
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- Vintage Chuck Berry poster
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- Vintage concert poster collection
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- Mark installing vintage poster collection
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- This is where the sand got dumped
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- Mark’s sign from when he sponsored the main stage music
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- Swanky bathroom sign
My husband and I were asked by the lady running the show to help hang ten original concert posters in a storefront window. And he to stage manage Friday night at the main stage. We’d do anything for Sue.
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- Ah the funnel cakes
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- The funnel cake head man cracked me up.
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- The Oberline train man set up a train garden!
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- The Navy band played the William Tell Overture for the fireworks.
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- Fireworks art shot.
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- My favorite fountain fireworks.
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- Fiona was hanging out with Daddy the stage manager.
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- Fiona loose on the Green.
There’s fire engine rides and bouncy rides and pony rides. Three different stages, a sand sculpture and play area, and plenty of food and political parties hawking their candidates. Plus cool old cars and fireworks to cap off the end of the festivities Saturday night. All of which I can hear and see from my house here on the Green.
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- A fabulous homemade jukebox.
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- Pony rides across the street.
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- Bob and Sue, important people we know.
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- Horses behinds were there too.
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- Fiona and Eamon played in the Folly.
The weather was so incredibly mild this year that the attendance was actually down. And on Sunday, Ms. Sue comes knocking on our door for a cup of Joe and retrieves my child. It’s his yearly job to destroy the sand sculpture before the backhoe gets there. And we got fresh free sand for the sandbox.
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- Fiona crawls through the tunnel in Boxtown.
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- Eamon is the official destroyer of the sand sculpture on Sunday.
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- And we all get fresh sand for our sandboxes.
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- A little sidewalk chalkin’.
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- I made Eamon climb a tree
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- Killing time the day after Summerfest.
So on Sunday, Fiona and Eamon and I hung out on the now emptied Green and played with sidewalk chalk and climbed trees. It was a lovely weekend in the neighborhood. It was Summerfestive.
A lovely send-off to summer post. Your wonderful photos took me there myself – so fun. And a horse too! Thank you and a happy September to you!
Thank you Dawn. I felt happy to utilize my gallery capability. And there’s the potential to scroll through the pictures if you want to too. September is my birth month and always a cause for celebration.
Love,
Shalagh