Plenty of fun at town recreation department’s first Oktupperfest

There was something for everyone at Saturday’s Oktupperfest, hosted for decades here by the chamber of commerce but this year by the Town Recreation Department at Flanders Park. It was the first time the event has been staged there (see editorial this week).

Mother Nature cooperated in a big way, holding off the rain our area saw most days last week, and producing a fine autumn day with the mercury hovering in the mid-fifties by mid-afternoon.

For adults there was delicious craft beer prepared by a half dozen prominent breweries in our area- including the hometown favorite: Raquette River.

There was also live music by two bands, Backwoods Brass of Saranac Lake and Tupper Lake’s Third Shift, a recently reformed group here.

For kids the Oktupperfest held all sorts of fun, as these photos by Ben McClelland, Christielee Geiger and Lacy Dukett show. There were games, balloon animals, face-painting, sweet treats of all kinds, pumpkin painting and hay rides, courtesy of Vermont’s Lucky Clover Sleigh Rides, which recently purchased a hay wagon.