The fourth Saturday in October is Sorghum Day in Wewoka Oklahoma. You can count on it every year.
The road to Wewoka was lonely. Why? There were tons of people already in Wewoka for the annual festival. Seems we were a tad bit late arriving. So much so that parking ‘might’ have been an issue. We finally found a spot at one of the local churches.
The parade must have been a huge one as it was still going on we we arrived. Horses, floats, big trucks and lawnmowers, the whole works. Looks like every group in town must have had an entry in the parade.
Main street was lined up and down, both sides with booths galore. There were tons of offerings. Rides for the kiddos, kettle corn, hand cranked ice cream, faux sham wow’s, crafts, sweet potato pies and on and on. There was a car show at one end of main street too.
The other end, just past the antique tractor show, there was a sorghum mill demonstration. They had truck beds of harvested sorghum, and they were hand feeding it into an antique mill press, powered by mules!
They cook down the juice into rich sorghum which they sold right there.
We had it with our oatmeal the next day – nothing beats FRESH sorghum syrup!
