Fast Facts

-The Twenty Third Annual Peach Festival, August 17, 18, & 19, 2007, will be held at Fountain Park, Tinkham Road in Wilbraham.

-The Peach Festival provides a forum for numerous civic groups to raise funds for their own projects in addition to supporting the park, scholarships and grants awarded from the festival proceeds.

-The Peach Festival includes a Classic Car Cruise, Hometown Parade, many fabulous food booths, Craft Show, Business Showcase, Li'l Peach Pit for small children, Kids Games, Jaws movie, Children's Entertainment, Main Stage Entertainment, Pancake Breakfast, Antique Engine Show and fantastic Grucci fireworks.

-The organization of the Peach Festival includes 9 Volunteer steering committee members, 75 full committee members, and hundreds of volunteers throughout Peach Festival weekend.

-The Wilbraham Peach Festival was selected by Congressman Richard Neal to participate in the Local Legacies Project to celebrate the Library of Congress Bicentennial, in 2004.

-The first Peach Festival celebrating the peach harvest, was held on the Minnechaug Regional High School grounds on August 31, 1985.

-In 1993 the Peach Festival became a three day event and was held for the first time at the former State owned Pheasant Farm, now known as Fountain Park and in 1999 it became the permanent home of the Festival.

-The Wilbraham Peach Festival is sponsored by The Wilbraham Community Association, a non-profit corporation founded in 1985 for the purpose of sponsoring the Peach Festival and other events to raise funds for public park development, scholarships and grants for projects that improve the quality of life for all.