Public events in Mathews on Saturday will include fun stuff of the present, a fall festival for Instagram photos, and to the past, in honoring lighthouse keepers from the county.
Instagram fest
The InstaFallFest will be held from 2-5 p.m. Saturday at 596 Main Street in Mathews, a private residence.Event organizer Kamilah Turner said this is an outdoor festival themed around Instagram and fall. The festival will include a voter registration booth where people can register or get questions answered.
Turner said stations will be socially distanced and will encourage people to take pictures and upload them to Instagram. Stations will include pumpkin area, apple area, fall leaves, archways covered in leaves, haystacks and more. Turner said, “We will have volunteers manning the stations, making sure things stayed sanitized and that people are not gathering in crowds. The goal is to keep the flow moving and not to encourage people to hang around and gather too much.”
In addition, volunteers w...