Celebrate Summer at the 10th annual Peach Festival in Oxford

The Oxford Historical Society will host its Tenth Annual Peach Festival from 4 to 7 p.m. on Saturday, August 27, at St. Peter’s Episcopal Church Fellowship Hall on the corner of Dutton Road and Route 67. The festival will feature homemade peach shortcake, fresh peaches, Rich Farm peaches and cream ice cream, coffee, tea and water. Admission to the festival is $1.

This year’s theme, First Responders of Oxford, will showcase a series of captioned photos of the Oxford Center Fire Company, the Quaker Farms Fire Company, the Riverside Fire Company, the Oxford Junior Fire Corps and the Oxford Ambulance Association taken through the years. There will also be a display featuring Oxford’s peach industry and the Hale Peach Farm.

Town Historian Dorothy DeBisschop explained that anyone with vintage pictures of Oxford’s first responders and their equipment are encouraged to submit them for scanning and inclusion in the exhibit. Residents who wish to loan photos may leave them at the Oxford Public Library addressed to Mrs. DeBisschop or make an appointment by calling her at 203 910-4574. There will also be a scanner available at the Peach Festival.

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Photo caption: Vintage photos of Oxford’s First Responders will be on display at the Oxford Historical Society’s 10th Annual Peach Festival on Saturday, August 27, from 4-7 p.m.at St. Peter’s Church Hall. St. Peter’s Church is located at the corner of Dutton Road and Route 67 in Oxford. Here, members of the Quaker Farms Fire Company pose in front of their firehouse in 1951. Anyone who can identify firemen in this picture are asked to contact Oxford Town Historian Dorothy DeBisschop at 203 910-4574. The event also features fresh peach shortcake “with all the trimmings.”