OctoberFest in Coupeville

In a small town such as Coupeville, There is not a whole lot to do. The area is mainly left over farms, from the era when it was all farmland. There used to be several huge dairy farms, and several Turkey Farms, Squash, Corn, Rye, Winterwheat, etc.

Oak Harbor became the seat of business, and Coupeville evolved into a bedroom. They are nine miles apart, but a century apart in attitude.

About 10 years ago, new money moved in and started renovating the old buildings along the waterfront, and with that came more tourists, and they settled in to the quaint town, and built more houses and made more money, and the Farmers sold their land, and the old farmers died off.


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Now the Historical Society is trying very hard to maintain the quaint old time look, and feel of this place. We used to harvest Squash in huge amounts, so they started the Squash festival, and there were several farmers who donated time and squash.


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These eventually went out of business along with all but 1 of the dairys and now there is no more squash. However, that did not stop the Historical Society, they got together, and the townfolk evolved the event into Octoberfest. It is a weekend in October, that usually is the end of the Farmers Market for the year. Along with that there is the Giant Pumpkin growing contest and several other fun but quaint things to do.


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Every Business that wishes to, puts a Scarecrow theme out in front of a business, and the tourists then vote on the best one.


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These are usually themed to correspond to the business that sponsors it. They become quite creative. One year the local “Establilshment” had a customer throw a drunk through the bar window, so that year, it put a broken window pane and a scarecrow coming through it in front of the Bar. It was great! Although the Kid who went through the window did not think so.


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These stay up through the Homecoming game, and Halloween, at which time the Corn stalks come down and the Christmas decorations go up.

If you ever are up this way during the Month of October, stop by, it really is a fun thing to see.

Clean fun , very little expense, and what is really great about it all is that they are left on the street, for almost a month, and nobody trashes them. Wouldn’t happen in Oak Harbor.

I will post some more tomorrow. IF this works.

Cross your fingers, here I go…