The 50th annual Apple ‘n Pork Festival will take place September 29 & 30, 9am- 5pm both days, at the C.H. Moore Homestead DeWitt County Museum in Clinton, Illinois. The festival, which began with a pot of soup and a stack of sandwiches, has grown to be one of downstate Illinois’ most popular festivals.
Today, the festival offers more than 25 booths featuring numerous types of old-fashioned, harvest-time apple and pork foods; tours of the home of Abraham Lincoln’s law partner and personal friend, C.H. Moore; a juried art show; large flea market; demonstrating craftsmen offering their items for sale; an antique tractor and farm equipment exhibit; living history Civil War interpreters; meal grinding, rope making, chair caning, coopering, woodcarving and blacksmithing demonstrations; free live musical entertainment; pony rides; tomahawk throwing; free admission to the farm and railroad exhibit buildings; Pigs on Parade contest and much more.
Admission to the festival and flea market grounds is free. For more information, go to www.chmoorehomestead.org or find our official Apple ‘n Pork Festival Facebook page.