SWAMPSCOTT — For The Love of Swampscott will hold its third annual Harvest Festival on Sunday, which promises to offer entertainment for all ages.
The event will be from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Swampscott High School, with a rain date of Sunday, Oct. 29.
“It’s such a fun time of the year for kids,” said Joanna O’Neil, president of For The Love of Swampscott (FLOS), a local nonprofit. “We wanted to create a festival that appeals to all ages and brought the community together and also promoted the outdoor classroom space that Swampscott High School has.”
O’Neil said the festival keeps getting bigger each year, not only with the number of attendees, which grew from about 500 the first year to close to 1,000 people last year, but with the amount of offerings.
Like in the past, O’Neil said there will be crafts, games and entertainment. She said the popular attraction of Fenway’s Davey the Clown will be back and the haunted house, which has been a big attraction for kids and tweens, will be bigger than ever.
O’Neil said the bravest people to go through the haunted house are the 5-year-old girls and the biggest screams are from the 11-year-old boys. FLOS partnered with Halloween City, a costume store in Salem, which will be lending a lot of equipment for the haunted house, she said.
She said there will be more offerings for tweens and teens, including a mechanical bull. There will be more food trucks than in years past and there will be kids’ fortune tellers. Other attractions include face painting and professional family photos.
“The group (FLOS) as a whole would say that they just love having different demographics of the community together,” O’Neil said. “It really is a family festival and there’s something for every age.”
