Bloomfield Apple Festival 2021 October 1-3

Friday, October 1, 2021

Photos by Patti Danner, Renee Wiggington and Madison Smith

The Bloomfield Apple Festival Committee held the 52nd Annual Bloomfield Apple Festival October 1-3 in Bloomfield. The images in the gallery were captured during the Apple Festival and at events such as the Apple Festival Queen and Princess Pageant, the Apple Baking Contest, Little Miss, Little Mister and Baby Contests, Miss Autumn Apple, Miss Apple Dumpling and Junior Princess presentations and the Apple Festival Parade.

A festive festival sign (Photo by Patti Danner)
Longtime Apple Festival organizer Judy Branstetter enjoyed Friday's festivities with her grandson, Dylan Richardson (Photo by Patti Danner)
Three slippery kids on a slide (Photo by Patti Danner)
Fuzzy marionettes offered by a vendor (Photo by Patti Danner)

Kolby Goad and his mom, Kensey, had fun on the slide (Photo by Patti Danner)
Free books! (Photo by Patti Danner)
The ferris wheel in the bright sun (Photo by Patti Danner)
Another view of the ferris wheel (Photo by Patti Danner)
Apple Festival People's Choice Queen winner Vivian Brown (Photo by Patti Danner)
Apple Festival People's Choice Princess winner Anneston Dunigan (Photo by Patti Danner)
Apple Festival Baby Contest Boy winner Rhett Maverick Hendrix (Photo by Patti Danner)
Apple Festival Baby Contest Girl winner Juniper Parcels with mom Abby and dad Charles (Photo by Patti Danner)
Apple Festival Baby Contest Boy winner Mason Vowell with dad Trent and mom Hannah (Photo by Patti Danner)
Baby Contest winner Mason Vowell (Photo by Patti Danner)
Apple Festival Baby Contest winners River Speer, left, and Kambrie Hope Strosnider (Photo by Patti Danner)
Landon, left, and John Groomer of Groomer Sound (Photo by Patti Danner)
From left, Apple Festival Co-Junior Princess Jaycie Grace Margret Anderson, Miss Apple Dumpling Hadley Price, Miss Autumn Apple Molly Strange, Miss Apple Dumpling First Runner-Up Emma Marie Allor and Co-Junior Princess Rylynne Mae Potts (Photo by Patti Danner)
Miss Junior Co-Princess Jaycie Grace Margret Anderson (Photo by Patti Danner)
Apple Festival Little Miss Jaylah Myers (Photo by Patti Danner)
Myers with mom, Brenda Myers (Photo by Patti Danner)
Apple Festival Little Mister John Bault (Photo by Patti Danner)
Miss Autumn Apple Molly Strange (Photo by Patti Danner)
Apple Festival Co-Junior Princess Rylynne Mae Potts (Photo by Patti Danner)
The Linton-Stockton High School Art Club (Photo by Patti Danner)
Jen Bollero-Erickson with her first-place pie and engraved pie-server at the Apple Festival Apple baking contest Saturday. (Photo by Madison Smith)
Rachel Raley serves up her winning apple pound cake at the Apple Festival Apple baking contest Saturday. (Photo by Madison Smith)
Ashlyn Kendall with her winning apple blondie bars at the Apple Festival Apple baking contest Saturday. (Photo by Madison Smith)
The booth offered by Greene County General Hospital (Photo by Patti Danner)
Chester Lehman of Old Lane Orchards in Odon sold apples, apple cider and other apple delicacies at the festival with his sons, Andre and Judah Lehman (Photo by Patti Danner)
Judah Lehman loads apples into a press (Photo by Patti Danner)
Apple Festival Queen and Princess candidates included Raven West (left), Harley Chipman, Chelsea Pate, Samantha Cain, Katherine Jenness, Vivian Brown, Ava Moore, Ava Biggerstaff and Anneston Dunigan. (Photo by Renee Wiggington)
2021 Apple Festival Queen Vivian Brown, left, and Apple Festival Princess Ava Moore. (Photo by Renee Wiggington)
From left, Raven West, Chelsea Pate, Samantha Cain, Katherine Jenness, Queen Vivian Brown and Harley Chipman. (Photo by Renee Wiggington)
Vivian Brown (right) was named Apple Festival Queen. Chelsea Pate (left), Samantha Cain and Katherine Jenness round out her court. Pate was named Miss Congeniality. Cain was Second Runner Up with Jenness First Runner Up. (Photo by Renee Wiggington)
Eastern Greene High School (Photo by Patti Danner)
Eastern Greene Art Club/Eastern Greene JAG sold creepy painted rocks and other works of art (Photo by Patti Danner)
Frankenstein's monster by EG (Photo by Patti Danner)
A whole basket of creepiness offered by Eastern Greene (Photo by Patti Danner)
Bloomfield artist Seamas Jarman (Photo by Patti Danner)
Jarman hard at work on one of his favorite subjects, geography (Photo by Patti Danner)
The schedule of events
BHS NJROTC led the way
BHS NJROTC unit with Chief David Hultberg (Photo by Patti Danner)
2021 Apple Festival Queen Vivian Brown (Photo by Patti Danner)
2021 Parade Grand Marshal, Dr. Owen Batterton and family (Photo by Patti Danner)
Bloomfield FD (Photo by Patti Danner)
Bloomfield Fire Department (Photo by Patti Danner)
Bloomfield PD's JR Blazier tosses candy (Photo by Patti Danner)
Bloomfield Boy Scout Troop 464 (Photo by Patti Danner)
Ethan with his bucket o'candy (Photo by Patti Danner)
Indiana State Representative Bruce Borders gifts a young fan (Photo by Patti Danner)
BHS band (Photo by Patti Danner)
Bloomfield Cardinals basketball (Photo by Patti Danner)
Miss Greene County Emma Records, right, and Princess Delaney McCormick (Photo by Patti Danner)
Miss Indiana State Pure International Claire Sims (Photo by Patti Danner)
Brodie, left and Sophia are all smiles with their bags of candy (Photo by Patti Danner)
Eastern Greene Thunder makes some noise (Photo by Patti Danner)
Greene County Soccer Association's Nathan Nichols tosses a handful of candy (Photo by Patti Danner)
Miss Apple Dumpling Hadley Price (Photo by Patti Danner)
Greene County Sheriff Mike Hasler waves to the crowd (Photo by Patti Danner)
Bloomfield Police Dept. Lieutenant Marvin Holt hands out some candy (Photo by Patti Danner)
Jeeps, Jeeps and more Jeeps (Photo by Patti Danner)
Baby contest winner Juniper Parcels with mom Abigail (Photo by Patti Danner)
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Apple Festival Little Miss Jaylah Myers and Little Mister John Bault (Photo by Patti Danner)
Miss Autumn Apple Molly Strange (Photo by Patti Danner)
Greene County Commissioner Nate Abrams (Photo by Patti Danner)
Off-Road baby (Photo by Patti Danner)
GC Right to Life (Photo by Patti Danner)
The GC Right to Life float (Photo by Patti Danner)
Baby Contest winner River Speer and mom Kelsie Speer (Photo by Patti Danner)
Apple Festival royalty (Photo by Patti Danner)
Miss Co-Junior Princess Rylynne Mae Potts (Photo by Patti Danner)
Tractor guys on a tractor (Photo by Patti Danner)
THE...END (Photo by Patti Danner)