56th Annual Apple 'n Pork Festival

Start: Saturday, September 28, 2024 9:00AM
End: Saturday, September 28, 2024 5:00PM

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 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 Era magician; kids’ activities; Pigs on Parade contest; and much more. No admission fee for the festival and flea market grounds. For more information, go to www.chmoorehomestead.org, call the museum directly at 217-935-6066, or find our official Apple ‘n Pork Festival Facebook page.