The festival will include open houses and special sales at businesses along Main Street, as well as a Civil-War reenactment (below) to emphasize the township’s history.
The Mullica Hill fall festival returns to Main Street Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday until 3 p.m. to celebrate the township’s local history and welcome the season.
The two-day event is free and will feature open houses and special sales at businesses along Main Street; live music; a bounce house for kids; and food vendors. A Living History portion of the festival will feature the reenactment of a Civil War battle between the Union and Confederacy and tours of “camps” on both sides of the fight, and it will pay tribute to a local family with ties to the war that will be revealed at the festival.
“We have two camps, Union and Confederate, and they actually mimic a battle with strategies and everything,” said Hazel Dilsaver, the event’s coordinator and owner of Farm House Design and MH Events. “We’re going to have some displays and a cannon firing.”
History will also figure into Ghastly Tales walking tours at Farm House Design, a separate event that ties into the fall festival. Walks will take place from Friday to Sunday 7 p.m. for the first two days and 7:15 p.m. for the third. The tours require a small fee and a reservation at ticketleap.com.
Dilsaver expects the festival and its associated events to draw about 5,000 people. Sponsors are J. Downs Law, J&D’s Paving, Nocentino Homes, Virtua Health, Your Home Sold Guaranteed, Nancy Kowalik Realty and Anderson Windows.
“It’s a multi-purpose event,” Dilsaver noted. “It brings the community together, puts a spotlight on Mullica Hill and teaches people all about town history.”
