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SUMMARY:Mystic Apple Festival Fills Olde Mistick Village With Two Days of Fall Flavors\, Music and Makers
DESCRIPTION:Mystic Apple Festival Fills Olde Mistick Village With Two Days of Fall Flavors\, Music and Makers on Oct. 17 and 18\, bringing more than 40 vendors\, seasonal food\, arts and crafts\, live entertainment and children’s activities to the Village for a fifth year. \nThe free festival runs 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday and Sunday\, spreading the celebration through the pedestrian paths and greens of Olde Mistick Village rather than confining it to a traditional fairground. \nApples get top billing\, but this isn’t seven hours of apple pie. \nThe festival expands into a broader celebration of the New England harvest\, with vendors working in the flavors that define October: apple\, maple\, pumpkin and caramel. \nApples Are Only the Beginning\nExpect the food side of the festival to move in several directions. \nApple-based treats anchor the weekend\, joined by maple\, pumpkin and caramel specialties from food vendors and producers. The festival has traditionally mixed those seasonal foods with baked goods and other things to eat while visitors wander the Village. \nThat wandering is a major part of the experience. \nOlde Mistick Village isn’t an empty field transformed into a festival for the weekend. Vendors are incorporated into a property already filled with more than 40 shops and eateries\, with pedestrian paths connecting its small buildings\, duck pond\, gazebo and green spaces. \nFestival booths therefore become part of a much larger food-and-shopping trail. \nVisitors can move between the temporary vendors and permanent specialty-food shops\, restaurants and stores rather than spending the afternoon inside a fenced festival area. \nMore Than 40 Vendors Come to the Village\nFood is only one part of the weekend. \nMore than 40 vendors are expected for the fifth annual festival\, with the lineup extending into arts\, crafts and handmade goods. \nOlde Mistick Village specifically highlights arts and crafts and specialty hand-knit products\, putting the event somewhere between a harvest festival\, makers market and food festival. \nThat combination has become familiar territory for the Village. \nIts annual calendar now includes large seasonal weekends built around strawberries\, garlic and apples\, bringing outside vendors into the shopping village while its permanent businesses remain open. \nThe setting changes the character of those events. Rather than walking rows of identical vendor tents across a field\, visitors encounter booths while moving between buildings\, landscaping\, restaurants and Village attractions. \nLive Music and Activities Add to the Weekend\nThe festival also includes live music and children’s activities throughout the weekend\, making it more than a seasonal shopping market. \nThe current event information does not provide a complete performer schedule or a detailed children’s activity schedule\, so families should not plan around a particular act or activity unless Olde Mistick Village releases additional information before the festival. \nThe combination nevertheless makes this an easy event to approach without much planning. There isn’t a ticketed entrance or a required arrival time. Visitors can come for an hour\, stay for an afternoon or build the festival into a longer Mystic day. \nAnd because the event runs until 6 p.m.\, it stretches well beyond the typical morning farmers-market schedule. \nFall Is Already Taking Over the Village\nApple Festival also lands in the middle of another Olde Mistick Village October tradition. \nThe month-long Scarecrows in the Village display runs from Oct. 1 through Oct. 31\, meaning the merchant-created scarecrows will still be scattered around the property during Apple Festival weekend. \nThat gives visitors two seasonal events at once: the vendors\, food and entertainment of Apple Festival surrounded by the Village’s Halloween displays. \nIt’s a particularly appropriate setting for a harvest festival. \nOlde Mistick Village was built in the early 1970s as an interpretation of an early New England village\, with individual buildings\, a meeting house\, town green\, pond and winding pedestrian paths. It opened in 1973 and has evolved into one of Mystic’s major shopping and dining destinations. \nIn October\, those paths become part of the attraction. \nFall foliage\, scarecrows\, pumpkins and temporary vendor stands transform a shopping trip into something closer to wandering through a small fall fair. \nAn Apple-Themed Nightcap on Saturday\nAdults who want to continue the apple theme after Saturday’s festival closes have another option without leaving Olde Mistick Village. \nKITCH is holding a separate Apple Festival Cocktails class from 6 to 8 p.m. Saturday\, immediately after the daytime festival. \nChef instructor and spirits educator Anthony Caporale will lead participants through three cocktails built around different hard ciders or apple-based spirits. \nThe menu includes a Stonington Fence\, Rossi Velvet and Prohibition Jack Rose\, with craft cider from Stonington’s Clyde’s Cider Mill and additional spirits supplied by Spencer & Lynn Wine and Spirit Merchants. \nCaporale brings considerably more than standard bartending experience to the class. He is Director of Spirits Education at New York’s Institute of Culinary Education and created The Imbible\, the Off-Broadway series exploring the history of drinking and cocktails. His work has also included appearances as a cocktail historian and the curation of the Temperance and Trade exhibition at Mystic Seaport Museum. \nThe class costs $65 and requires separate registration. It is not included with the free Apple Festival. \nFor everyone else\, the main festival remains remarkably straightforward: show up\, wander\, eat and see what you find. \nMore information is available at the Event Website link below. \nDetails\nEvent: 5th Annual Mystic Apple Festival\nDates: Saturday and Sunday\, Oct. 17–18\, 2026\nTime: 11 a.m.–6 p.m. both days\nLocation: Olde Mistick Village\nAddress: 27 Coogan Blvd.\, Mystic\, CT 06355\nAdmission: Free\nVendors: More than 40 expected\nFood: Seasonal apple\, maple\, pumpkin and caramel specialties\, along with additional festival food\nShopping: Arts\, crafts\, specialty hand-knit products and other vendor goods\nEntertainment: Live music\nFamily Activities: Children’s activities are planned\nAlso Happening: Scarecrows in the Village runs throughout October\nFestival Contact: MysticAppleFestival@gmail.com\nOlde Mistick Village: 860-536-4941\nSaturday Evening: Apple Festival Cocktails at KITCH\, 6–8 p.m.; $65 and separately ticketed. \n  \n  \nFeatured image is an artistic representation inspired by the event and may not depict the actual people\, location\, or activities shown.
URL:https://thectbeacon.com/event/mystic-apple-festival-fills-olde-mistick-village-with-two-days-of-fall-flavors-music-and-makers/2026-10-17/
LOCATION:Olde Mistick Village\, 27 Coogan Blvd\, Mystic\, CT\, 06355\, United States
CATEGORIES:Olde Mistick Village
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SUMMARY:Mystic Apple Festival Fills Olde Mistick Village With Two Days of Fall Flavors\, Music and Makers
DESCRIPTION:Mystic Apple Festival Fills Olde Mistick Village With Two Days of Fall Flavors\, Music and Makers on Oct. 17 and 18\, bringing more than 40 vendors\, seasonal food\, arts and crafts\, live entertainment and children’s activities to the Village for a fifth year. \nThe free festival runs 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday and Sunday\, spreading the celebration through the pedestrian paths and greens of Olde Mistick Village rather than confining it to a traditional fairground. \nApples get top billing\, but this isn’t seven hours of apple pie. \nThe festival expands into a broader celebration of the New England harvest\, with vendors working in the flavors that define October: apple\, maple\, pumpkin and caramel. \nApples Are Only the Beginning\nExpect the food side of the festival to move in several directions. \nApple-based treats anchor the weekend\, joined by maple\, pumpkin and caramel specialties from food vendors and producers. The festival has traditionally mixed those seasonal foods with baked goods and other things to eat while visitors wander the Village. \nThat wandering is a major part of the experience. \nOlde Mistick Village isn’t an empty field transformed into a festival for the weekend. Vendors are incorporated into a property already filled with more than 40 shops and eateries\, with pedestrian paths connecting its small buildings\, duck pond\, gazebo and green spaces. \nFestival booths therefore become part of a much larger food-and-shopping trail. \nVisitors can move between the temporary vendors and permanent specialty-food shops\, restaurants and stores rather than spending the afternoon inside a fenced festival area. \nMore Than 40 Vendors Come to the Village\nFood is only one part of the weekend. \nMore than 40 vendors are expected for the fifth annual festival\, with the lineup extending into arts\, crafts and handmade goods. \nOlde Mistick Village specifically highlights arts and crafts and specialty hand-knit products\, putting the event somewhere between a harvest festival\, makers market and food festival. \nThat combination has become familiar territory for the Village. \nIts annual calendar now includes large seasonal weekends built around strawberries\, garlic and apples\, bringing outside vendors into the shopping village while its permanent businesses remain open. \nThe setting changes the character of those events. Rather than walking rows of identical vendor tents across a field\, visitors encounter booths while moving between buildings\, landscaping\, restaurants and Village attractions. \nLive Music and Activities Add to the Weekend\nThe festival also includes live music and children’s activities throughout the weekend\, making it more than a seasonal shopping market. \nThe current event information does not provide a complete performer schedule or a detailed children’s activity schedule\, so families should not plan around a particular act or activity unless Olde Mistick Village releases additional information before the festival. \nThe combination nevertheless makes this an easy event to approach without much planning. There isn’t a ticketed entrance or a required arrival time. Visitors can come for an hour\, stay for an afternoon or build the festival into a longer Mystic day. \nAnd because the event runs until 6 p.m.\, it stretches well beyond the typical morning farmers-market schedule. \nFall Is Already Taking Over the Village\nApple Festival also lands in the middle of another Olde Mistick Village October tradition. \nThe month-long Scarecrows in the Village display runs from Oct. 1 through Oct. 31\, meaning the merchant-created scarecrows will still be scattered around the property during Apple Festival weekend. \nThat gives visitors two seasonal events at once: the vendors\, food and entertainment of Apple Festival surrounded by the Village’s Halloween displays. \nIt’s a particularly appropriate setting for a harvest festival. \nOlde Mistick Village was built in the early 1970s as an interpretation of an early New England village\, with individual buildings\, a meeting house\, town green\, pond and winding pedestrian paths. It opened in 1973 and has evolved into one of Mystic’s major shopping and dining destinations. \nIn October\, those paths become part of the attraction. \nFall foliage\, scarecrows\, pumpkins and temporary vendor stands transform a shopping trip into something closer to wandering through a small fall fair. \nAn Apple-Themed Nightcap on Saturday\nAdults who want to continue the apple theme after Saturday’s festival closes have another option without leaving Olde Mistick Village. \nKITCH is holding a separate Apple Festival Cocktails class from 6 to 8 p.m. Saturday\, immediately after the daytime festival. \nChef instructor and spirits educator Anthony Caporale will lead participants through three cocktails built around different hard ciders or apple-based spirits. \nThe menu includes a Stonington Fence\, Rossi Velvet and Prohibition Jack Rose\, with craft cider from Stonington’s Clyde’s Cider Mill and additional spirits supplied by Spencer & Lynn Wine and Spirit Merchants. \nCaporale brings considerably more than standard bartending experience to the class. He is Director of Spirits Education at New York’s Institute of Culinary Education and created The Imbible\, the Off-Broadway series exploring the history of drinking and cocktails. His work has also included appearances as a cocktail historian and the curation of the Temperance and Trade exhibition at Mystic Seaport Museum. \nThe class costs $65 and requires separate registration. It is not included with the free Apple Festival. \nFor everyone else\, the main festival remains remarkably straightforward: show up\, wander\, eat and see what you find. \nMore information is available at the Event Website link below. \nDetails\nEvent: 5th Annual Mystic Apple Festival\nDates: Saturday and Sunday\, Oct. 17–18\, 2026\nTime: 11 a.m.–6 p.m. both days\nLocation: Olde Mistick Village\nAddress: 27 Coogan Blvd.\, Mystic\, CT 06355\nAdmission: Free\nVendors: More than 40 expected\nFood: Seasonal apple\, maple\, pumpkin and caramel specialties\, along with additional festival food\nShopping: Arts\, crafts\, specialty hand-knit products and other vendor goods\nEntertainment: Live music\nFamily Activities: Children’s activities are planned\nAlso Happening: Scarecrows in the Village runs throughout October\nFestival Contact: MysticAppleFestival@gmail.com\nOlde Mistick Village: 860-536-4941\nSaturday Evening: Apple Festival Cocktails at KITCH\, 6–8 p.m.; $65 and separately ticketed. \n  \n  \nFeatured image is an artistic representation inspired by the event and may not depict the actual people\, location\, or activities shown.
URL:https://thectbeacon.com/event/mystic-apple-festival-fills-olde-mistick-village-with-two-days-of-fall-flavors-music-and-makers/2026-10-18/
LOCATION:Olde Mistick Village\, 27 Coogan Blvd\, Mystic\, CT\, 06355\, United States
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