Fairfield Homecoming activites set for Saturday, June 22, 2019

NC GAZETTE / WBRT RADIO
STAFF REPORT

Sunday, June 16, 2019 — The Fairfield Homecoming is Saturday, June 22, 2019, throughout the city Fairfield.

The Homecoming activities scheduled include:

• Yard sales throughout town beginning at 8 a.m.

• Displays in City Hall and the old Jail, 9 a.m. – 6 p.m.

• Whiskey City Cruisers Car Show, 10 a.m. – 2 p.m., Burgin’s parking lot, 105 E. Main Street, and the City Park & Ride Lot.

• Face Painting by Mayor Angie Ford, City Hall lawn, 11 a.m. – 2 p.m.

• Musical Entertainment, City Hall lawn: Brian Alvey of St. Francis, 1 – 3 p.m.

• Tunes By You Karaoke by Joe Ballard, 3:30 – 6 p.m.

• Reading by Author Mary Popham from her latest novel, The Wife Takes a Farmer, released in October 2018, inside City Hall, 2 p.m.

FOOD & COLLECTIBLES. The Fairfield Cemetery Committee will be cooking with the proceeds going for maintenance and restoration of the Fairfield Cemetery.

If you want a Fairfield keepsake, there are several unique items to choose from that help support the Homecoming:

• Coverlets: Depict Fairfield churches and extinct businesses. They are navy on a natural background and cost $35.

• Homecoming T-shirts: Various colors and sizes, $7 to $15.

• Quilt names: For $5 a deceased individual’s name, birth and death years can be added to the second quilt. Any additional information provided is recorded in a separate book.

• Bank vault bricks: Bricks from the vault of the former Peoples Bank, later the Bank of Fairfield, cost $20 and come with an attached commemorative plate and history information.

• H. McKenna Distillery Print: Taking orders for a reproduction of J.P. Hathaway’s “birds-eye view” of the distillery, circa early 1930s. Size 24” x 16” is $22; size 33” x 23” is $40.

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