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A Taste of Turnip Day

On Saturday, November 18th, thirty plus local food establishments will serve up daily specials featuring Eastham Turnip ~ turnip appetizers to turnip soups, turnip sides to turnip entrees, perhaps even turnip ice cream!

Live Festivities

Turn Up for Tunes at the Chapel in Pines

Live Concert at 1:00 pm
Higher Ground String Band will perform favorite bluegrass numbers along with their whimsical repertoire of turnip- themed tunes.

Blessing of the Turnips
Transportation Reporter for GHB News and local resident, Bob Seay, will deliver the Blessing of the Turnips.

Turn Up for Fun Day at the Eastham Public Library

A variety of turnip-themed amusements for the young and young at heart will be available:

• Jungle Jim’s Balloon & Magic Show ~ live performance at 10:30 am
• Trevor the Juggler ~ live performance at 2:00 pm
• NEW Reading to Hearts and Paws Comfort Dogs
• Face painting with Nicole Pierce
• Henna body art with Jo Ann Whittemore
• NEW Caricature art with Susan Festa
• NEW Altered book art demonstration by local artist Sian Robertson
• NEW Turnip Tips ~ speak with a local farmer about growing Eastham Turnips
• Temporary turnip tattoos
• Enormous Turnip Contest ~ guess the weight of our pumpkin wanna be!
• Photo ops with our mascots Mr. & Ms. Turnip
• Make & take turnip crafts
• Turnip Games
• StoryWalk® featuring Jan Brett’s The Turnip ~ on the grounds of the library
• Turnip Merchandise ~ The Friends of the Eastham Library will be selling t- shirts, hats, turnip cookbooks, notecards, magnets and more!
• Eastham Elementary School Art on Display ~ view this year’s bumper crop of Turnip Heads created by Molly Driscoll’s first grader art students.

NEW Turn Up for Tool Time at the Swift Daley House

Visit this branch of the Eastham Historical Society at 2375 State Highway, 10 am – 3 pm. Mark Herman will fire up the historic forge and give demonstrations. Farming implements from bygone years will be exhibited and folks can bring in their old tools for identification and appraisals.

NEW Tracing Our Roots \ At the Schoolhouse Museum ~ Tracing Our Roots

View the museum’s exhibit to trace our roots and learn about Eastham’s proud agricultural history, 10 AM – 3 PM, 25 Schoolhouse Road.