Applefest
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Applefest is a yearly three-day festival held in Franklin, Pennsylvania that starts the first Friday of October that attracts over 30,000 people. The three-day event is the largest crafts festival in western Pennsylvania.[1]
The festival includes an apple pancake breakfast, apple-pie-baking and -eating contests, a 5K race, a car show, and more than 300 craft and vendor booths.[2][3]
Other Applefests include the Tenbury Wells Applefest, held each year in October in Tenbury Wells in England, as well as another held in Clarksville, Missouri.
The Hilton Apple Fest, located in Hilton, New York is also held in October each year and attracts approximately 70,000 visitors. The festival donates $5,000 per year on average to groups such as Ambulance Corps, Library, Village parks, Food Shelf, Camp Good Days and Special Times, Historical Society, Braddock Bay Raptor Research, and other Community Center projects. [4]
Washington State Apple Blossom Festival attracts over 100,000 people a year in Wenatchee the sel-proclaimed "Apple Capital of the World."
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