[audio:http://www.wdde.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/20250_AppleScrapple-Bake-off.mp3|titles=WDDE's Susan Geary takes us inside the Apple-Scrapple Apple Baking Contest.]
Apple and scrapple connoisseurs from far and wide will converge on Bridgeville this weekend.
The 2012 Annual Apple-Scrapple Festival will grow the town to more than twelve times its usual size with about 25,000 visitors expected.
The festival has grown from just 25-hundred visitors in the early ‘90s to more than 25-thousand people in recent years.
Executive Chairperson Karen Johnson says there are a few reasons she thinks the event has grown exponentially since its humble beginnings.
[caption id="attachment_31912" align="alignright" width="200" caption="An entrant in the Apple Scrapple Apple Baking Contest."]
“The fact that we have free admission, free parking and free bus service, along with free entertainment appeals to many, especially families in the area,” said Johnson.
Johnson adds along with the explosive growth in visitors, the festival itself expanded as well.
“We now have over 400 crafters coming to our festival along with our trade show. I know that we have close to 80 businesses that are set up and showing off their businesses and what they offer,” said Johnson.
The festivities kick off Friday afternoon with craft shows, a classic car show and shine and the scrapple chunkin’ contest continuing into Saturday.
Festival veterans can enjoy perennial favorites like the Ladies Skillet Toss and Scrapple Chunkin’ contests Saturday afternoon, with the Apple Baking Contest results kicking off the event Friday.