Crowd enjoys dancing event and Fall Festival
Sunny weather and a cool, mid-fall breeze drew a respectable crowd to the second annual Fall Festival on Saturday at Texarkana’s Front Street Festival Plaza.
Vendors offered a host of assorted wares, including arts, crafts and food. The festival also featured live music, bounce houses for the children, a costume contest and about 40 to 50 dancers— mostly children—moving and grooving to Michael Jackson’s best-known tunes.
Organizer Tameka Grady said the youth came from throughout the Texarkana area to perform like they did last year.
“The weather was a lot warmer last year, like in the 80s, but we still have a lot of people turning out,” Grady said.
Diana Howard, president of the local Pink Ride Committee, said the committee also attended last year’s Fall Festival to let people know about their organization’s purpose and mission. The group raises funds to help
adult and child cancer patients and plans to hold its own threeday event April 5-7, 2018, at Spring Lake Park.
“We had quite a few people come by our stand last year as well as this year,” Howard said. “We’re here just to let people know we’re here.”
Brian Harper and Belinda Richnow also attended the festival to get the word out about the annual Texarkana Renaissance Faire, which has been held in September at the Four States Fairgrounds for the last six years.
“This year, the weather made our costumes feel much nicer,” Richnow said, referring to the relatively thicker material she had on, which was more characteristic of Western Europe’s 12th- to 14th-century garb than of today’s lighter fall apparel.