YARMOUTH – The Yarmouth Seaside Festival wrapped up its 40th annual edition on Monday with a kayak and canoe race and sand sculpting contest on Bass River Beach.
The three-day event attracted big crowds beginning with the arts and crafts fair and bonfire on Saturday.
Sunday’s activities included the annual fireworks show.
The festival is the result of the dedication of a small volunteer committee led by founder Jan Butler, who formed the committee and started the festival in 1978. The committee is responsible for making it flourish for Yarmouth residents every year.
“I have had an exceptional committee. I have had people that answered the first ad in the paper 41 years ago. I had written an article and just said, ‘I’m looking to do a town festival. I’m looking for volunteers for anyone who might be interested,’ and I had 17 people show up to that first meeting,” said founder Jan Butler.
I’m proud to say that I still have people on my committee who were there the first couple of years,” Butler explained.
“I was attending the Harwich Cranberry Harvest Festival with my children and it dawned on me that Harwich had some celebration, Bourne had a celebration, Wellfleet had a celebration, and Yarmouth didn’t.”
“I’m proud to say that I still have people on my committee who were there the first couple of years,” Butler said before this year’s edition.
Plans are already underway for the 2019 Seaside Festival.
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