Penn Township hosts annual fall festival
Penn Township held its annual fall festival Sept. 19 to 21 at Municipal Park.
Attendees enjoyed live music performances, carnival rides and games, food and crafts. A parade marched down Route 130 in the morning on Sept. 20 and fireworks lit up the sky above Municipal Park later that evening.
Some community members competed in the chili cook-off, pie baking contest or Lego build competition. Others showed off their antique vehicles during the car cruise. The 4th U.S. Light Artillery Civil War reenacting group, new to the festival this year, performed cannon firing demonstrations throughout the weekend.
The fall festival was created when the township celebrated its 150th birthday in 2005. The inaugural event took place two years later. Apart from 2020, the festival has been held every year since.
Quincey Reese is a TribLive reporter covering the Greensburg and Hempfield areas. She also does reporting for the Penn-Trafford Star. A Penn Township native, she joined the Trib in 2023 after working as a Jim Borden Scholarship intern at the company for two summers. She can be reached at qreese@triblive.com.
Remove the ads from your TribLIVE reading experience but still support the journalists who create the content with TribLIVE Ad-Free.