The 56th Annual Apple ‘n Pork Festival will take place  both days, rain or shine.

The festival, which began as a modest museum restoration fundraiser, with a pot of soup and a stack of sandwiches, has grown to be one of downstate Illinois’ most popular festivals. Today, the festival offers more than 25 booths featuring numerous types of old-fashioned, harvest-time apple and pork foods; tours of the home of Abraham Lincoln’s law partner and personal friend, C.H. Moore; a juried fine art show; a large flea market with more than 300 booths; demonstrating craftsmen offering their items for sale; an antique tractor show; farm equipment exhibits; entertaining presentations by our own “Abraham Lincoln;” meal grinding, rope making, chair caning, and blacksmithing demonstrations; free live musical entertainment; a Victorian magician performance, kids’ activities; Pigs on Parade contest; and much more.