The Abingdon Community Festival got underway today, the long time fair that draws the town’s residents together over the course of four days.The first thing on the schedule was judging for flowers, vegetables, arts and crafts Thursday at 1 p.m.
A little later at 6 p.m. the always anticipated pig and chicken scramble for the kids will get started.
Of course there will be a carnival every night with arm band nights Thursday and again on Sunday from 3 to 6 p.m.
The annual festival has been held for the better part of a century but Festival Secretary Angie Wherley says people still sometimes call it a “fall festival” because it used to be held in September.
“With school and everything we like to get it either the week before school starts or the week the kids get into school,” Wherley says. “Plus the livestock they’ve been shown all summer long and they’re weights that need to go to market because they’ll be too big come September.”
Wherley says the festival’s largest money maker is usually a baked goods auction, which gets around 75 to 100 entries.
