After a two year pandemic hiatus, Hampton will again have its fall celebration. Fletcher Memorial Library, assisted by the Town of Hampton, will host the Hampton Harvest Festival on September 10, from 10AM to 3PM, on the lawn between the Community Center and the Town Hall. The festival will feature exclusively hand grown and handmade products from the people of Hampton. The offerings will include fresh produce, maple syrup products, breads and eggs from local farms, nature photography, hand-knit toys, dried flower bouquets, T-shirts and more from local artisans.

Our local organizations will also be at the festival. The library will hold its bake sale as well as a silent auction. Audubon’s Trail Wood and Friends of Goodwin Forest will discuss their programs, the Historical Society will have a display of unusual antiques for us to attempt to identify, and the Gazette will have the annual calendar featuring local artists available for sale as well as the annual polls and the community poem. The Scouts will be available with information on our local troops – and s’mores! – and other food will include hot dogs and hamburgers from the Fire Department, homemade donuts compliments of Elaine and Vernon King, and the Lapp Family Ice Cream.

Our farmers will be well represented with Organic Roots Farm and Full Moon Farm with fresh produce and fresh bread, Bright Acres Farm and Pebble Brook Farm with maple products, Lone Elm Farm with its famous corn and other vegetables, and First Light Farm with baby goats. Arts and crafts such as photography, cards, wreaths, drawings, knits, quilling, bouquets, and local authors’ books will be available from our artists and artisans including Ruth Halbach, North Meadow Farm, Vine D’zines, John O’Brien, Tadria Pawlikowski Milhomme, and Three Sisters Flowers.

There will be farm animals on display for the children, as well as face painting, sack races, corn-hole, and hay rides. Associated events for all include a tour of the town’s new Hammond Hill/Little River property presented by the Conservation Commission, and a Chicken Barbecue at the Congregational Church.

So, please join your neighbors on September 10, support our farmers and artists, and celebrate our town!