Likewise the previous years, the Mill Neck Manor Fall Harvest Festival will bring the beautiful autumn season to Long Island. This festival is a famous festival that is capable of drawing hundreds of returning visitors. What’s more, the festival will provide you with the opportunity to have an exciting trip to the gorgeous Mill Neck campus over Columbus Day weekend. Now, the festival will be hosted on October 10 and 11. The visitors can enjoy the festival from 9 am to 5 pm… Additionally, the festival would be a great way to celebrate the autumn season as there will be a return of ripe apples, handmade crafts, grilled bratwurst, children activities, and so on.
The festival’s location is on the grounds of famous Gold Coast estate, which is in between the Oyster Bay and Bayville. To add to the fact, the festival is also known as the Apple Fest and a wide range of cheeses will be offered in the various Cheese Houses. With that said, there will be a lot of delicious baked goods, fudge, jellies and strudels for the visitors. Besides, the ‘Country Store’ will be offering meat and bacon products as well.
Furthermore, the children’s activities area in the festival will offer an assortment of games and activities to the children as well as face painting and a pumpkin patch. In addition to this, the festival would display the newest deaf technology along with the sign language novelty items and books. Every year, the Mill Neck Manor alumni attend the festival, which is considered as a homecoming. It brings out the core of the Long Island Deaf Community together.
The visiting people would be relishing the prospect of winning a grand sum of money as each year; there is an option like – 50/50 for the visiting people! Usually, the ticket price is only $10 and the winner who will be picked on Sunday at 3 PM have the chance to win half the net profit of the money generated from the ticket sales. In past festivals, people had won worth more than 10,000!
With these, the Mill Neck Family of Organizations will arrange the fifth annual ‘Kick-Off Breakfast for Volunteers’ at the Deaf Education Center. The time of the event is from 9-11 AM on Saturday, October 3, 2015. This event is open for all the volunteers of the festivals who ages 16 and over. Moreover, the appreciation event will consist of a continental breakfast, long-time volunteer recognition, and an orientation program.
Now, all the fortunes earned from the festival benefit the Mill Neck Family of Organizations that involves the Mill Neck Manor Early Childhood Center, Mill Neck Manor School for the Deaf, and Mill Neck Services for Deaf Adults. After joining the festival, you would be enjoying the sights and sounds of the festivals. Ultimately, the festival would turn into your family tradition.