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WILTON – Residents have undoubtedly noted the annual decorations are up once more, as the town prepares for next month’s 28th Annual Blueberry Festival.
The Wilton Fire and Rescue Department hangs the large banners every year, along with the “blueberry” lamp covers in the downtown. The festival features the Wilton Free Public Library’s book sale, the enormous Blueberry Festival parade and a host of other events incorporating local-area businesses, organizations and artists. Chairman Shannon Smith, of the Wilton Blueberry Festival Corp., said she always likes seeing the banners go up.
“I get excited, knowing that the time is coming,” she said Thursday, watching firefighters maneuver the banner into position. “It’s very exciting to see it go up.”
“It’s very exciting to see it come down, too,” she joked. Smith and many other volunteers will spend much of the next two weeks double-checking vendors and performers, setting up displays and booths and generally ironing out wrinkles.
The blueberries covers that go on the lamps have gone up since before 1990, the originals sown by Shirley Larmere. These new covers were made by Bonnie Brown Trask, who has sown an earlier incarnation, as well as Maple Cox and Judy Lane.
Smith said that it was the teamwork of the fire department that made the decorations possible.
The festival’s events will be held on August 6 & 7. A complete schedule can be found on the festival’s website, located here.
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