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Apple Butter Festival Kimmswick in Kimmswick
Apple Butter Festival Kimmswick simmers apple butter in copper kettles over open fires, with historic Kimmswick volunteers stirring the thickening fruit throughout the day. More than four hundred vendor booths spread across the small river town, turning a single kettle tradition into a much larger event. The kettle work stays at the center even as the festival grows around it.
Apple butter simmering in copper kettles over open fires is the image that defines this festival, and it holds up to close attention: historic Kimmswick volunteers stir the thickening fruit continuously through the day to keep it from scorching, and most are happy to explain the process to anyone who stops to watch.