Annual Apple ‘n Pork Festival
Sunday, September 29, 2024 from 09:00am to 05:00pm
Annual Apple ‘n Pork Festival
Dewitt County Museum
219 East Woodlawn
The 56th Annual Apple ‘n Pork Festival will take place both days, rain or shine.
The festival, which began as a modest museum restoration fundraiser, 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 fine art show; a large flea market with more than 300 booths; demonstrating craftsmen offering their items for sale; an antique tractor show; farm equipment exhibits; entertaining presentations by our own “Abraham Lincoln;” meal grinding, rope making, chair caning, and blacksmithing demonstrations; free live musical entertainment; a Victorian magician performance, kids’ activities; Pigs on Parade contest; and much more.