Small Festival to Small Festival

My boyfriend came up to Cooperstown for the first time this weekend.  Being a small town area I was hoping to find some interesting things for us to do.  It also being Fall there were a number of Harvest Festivals being advertised all over the place.  I figured going to see these festivals would be a great way to spend a beautiful Saturday afternoon.  

We started off by driving to Fly Creek for the Fly Creek Cider Mill's Apple Fest.  We paid two dollars each and got into the festival area.  The festival itself was not all that impressive, there was a band playing, a raffle and some games, not much else.  It was, however, my first time at the Cider Mill and that was very cool.  We walked in and there were free tasting samples of almost everything, so you walked around the room sampling different sauces and salsa's; you also had the opportunity to taste their apples, cookies, hard cider, wine and of course the regular cider.  Up the stairs it became more of a crafter area and guests had the opportunity to see the cider making process at work.  When we were there a film crew also happened to be present.  The whole cider mill experience took us maybe an hour/hour and a half.  We left with Black Current Apple Wine (very good), apple donuts, cider, and hard cider.  

With still a large chunk of the afternoon before us we decided to held down to Milford for the Garlic Festival.  The Garlic festival was not that large either, especially for a girl who is used to seeing the center of her town shut down for the Apple Harvest Festival.  There was one or two crafters, a couple people selling food made from garlic, some antiques, lessons on how to garlic, and a little stage for performances.  Nothing too exciting, it took us maybe fifteen minutes to get through, and the garlic chocolate chip cookies were not good.  I hear after Jay and I left one of my professors came and started to perform on the stage.  

So the lesson learned was that Cooperstown is a beautiful area with really friendly people, but outside of visiting the Hall of Fame and the Cider Mill it appears that you are in charge of making your own fun.