20th anniversary Mushroom Festival

We practically live in Kennett Square, PA. They changed our mailing addy to another town, yet we live a hop, skip and a jump away from KS. We have lived here for 19 years. The Mushroom Festival is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year. We plan to try to get up there before the crowds hit. They say they had 100,000 in attendance last year. This may be due in part to the fact that the festival was on Food Network in 2003. I believe I mentioned this last September. And I recognized half the people they filmed for the show (including one of Sean's kindergarten teachers)!
Sean is writing an English paper on the festival. He emailed two local mushroom farms and one of the managers from Phillips took time from his busy pre-festival schedule to answer Sean's 5 questions (part of the assignment). Very nice.
So I may be doing a follow-up to this post. I can't even imagine 5K people in KS let alone 100,000, but that was over the course of the two day event. The imagine is from a t-shirt going for $25-ouch!