The Sumiton Frog Festival 10-02-2010

Planning is underway for the Sumiton Frog Festival. This years festival falls on October 2nd. The vendor applications are now online so apply early to get a good space.
This years festival will have music, arts & crafts, fun for the kids and great food!
Mark your calendars today.

The Sumiton Frog Festival 2009

The 2009 Sumiton Frog had picture perfect weather again. The long-range forecast did not bode well but the rain moved out on Friday afternoon and the skies were blue as a swimming pool. It would be hard to order up a better day off a menu of Great Day optiong.
The air was cool before sunrise but when the sun peeked up above the horizon and burned off the early morning dew, the weather was perfect.
There is no way to count the number of people that attend the festival, but at one point looking down main street in either direction was wall-to-wall people>
The vendors seemed happy this year as people were not only out in droves, but they were buying more than in years past.
Below is a link to photos from this year's festival.
2009 Frog Festival Fhotos


Webmaster's Blog Note about the Frog Festival
I'm not sure you could have ordered up a better day for a small town festival. We arrived this morning just after dawn and set up our tent and table. I hadn't half finished setup when I realized I should have worn a jacket.
After the sun rose out of the east, and burned off the morning dew, the day warmed nicely.
Our booth was almost at the corner of State and Main Streets and as it turned out, it was a great location. We caught people coming and going. We saw so many old friends and well-wishers that I lost count.
We were a few booths away from the Crazy Hair booth and watching those kids come out of there was a scream.
This was our fourth Frog Festival and we've enjoyed them all. The Frog Festival is the perfect small-town festival. Admission is free, with music on two stages all day long. You can walk around and eat BBQ, funnel cakes, parched peanuts, and cotton candy. Jilda and I had lemonade squeezed fresh right before our eyes.
I had a great time today. The only downside was I got blazed. I knew better. I had sun screen in the car, but I didn't want to walk back and get it. So tonight, I'm paying the price.
It will be an yearly night because we are whupped.

October 3th 2009
Planning for the forth annual Sumiton Frog Festival in in the final stages. This year's festival should be bigger and better than ever before.
The long range forecast has the rain moving off to the east and blue skies and warm sun are predicted for FrogDay.
All of you favorite vendors are lined up to return on October 3rd along with great bands, interesting Arts & Crafts and some of the best food on the planet.
The Frog Festival Car Show sponsored by Boy Scout Troop 121 in Sumiton will start registration at 8 a.m. and the prizes will be awarded at 2 p.m.
The children's area includes a Pirate Ship, moon walk, super slide, climbing wall, jousting, and a baseball sports arena. Also for the kids - games, children's books, children's toys, face painting and crazy hair.
This year's festival will have two stages with talent packed schedules that will include gospel, jazz, country, folk, and southern rock.
The world famouse Frog T-Shirts will go on sale in the morning. Be sure to grab your shirt early before they sell out.
Parking for the event will be at Bevill State and the baseball park. Golf carts will transport people to and from their cars..
Mark you calendars now and plan to come join in on all the fun.

The 2008 Frog Festival enjoyed stellar weather again. The morning was cool as vendors scrambled to get their booths set up.
The number of vendors swelled to over 160 booths offering food, arts & crafts, horse riding, tee shirts, quilts, and information on just about anything you care to know about.
There was music in the air from two stages.
This year's festival was special in that it paid tribute to our veterans. More than thirty veterans from our nations wars were honored.
Bruce Hamrick, Chairman of the Walker County Commission presented Leldon McLeroy a belated Silver Star for his efforts during World War II.
Civil War enactment folks were on hand with demonstrations and displays.
The car show sponsored by the Boy Scout Troop 121 took place on the Bevill State Campus and awards of over $500 in cash and prizes for winners.
The Sumiton Frog Festival is a family oriented event with fun for the entire family. Face painting for the kids and a children's area

Last year's festival in October drew thousands of people for the event. The early autumn weather in Alabama is perfect for festivals.

Click here for photos of the 2008 Frog Festival

A Good Ol' Day in Sumiton
by Jilda Watson
Saturday October 4th, 2008 was a good old day. If you are of one of those folks who find themselves wishing for and dreaming of the good old days, if you long for the day when you walked down the street and your neighbor smiled at you, when it was safe for children to walk the sidewalk, if you dreamed of a town where the
people were not embarrassed or afraid to show their love for God and country, where soldiers were remembered and respected, where young and old, people of every
color and faith, well to do and not so well to do, walked the street without fear, where BBQ, fried fish, fried pies, and snickers and fresh lemonade flowed like milk and honey, where dulcimers, candles, wind chimes, and frogs of every kind were made with much love, where
the music and talent seemed to ooze from the streets themselves, then you should have been at the 2008 Frog Festival in
Sumiton, Alabama. For the third year, there was a place in Walker, County where time stood still, a place where we could all look back in a few years, and remember a good old day.