Greg Dills rides a tractor in the Kelseyville Pear Festival parade in a previous year. Courtesy photo.

KELSEYVILLE, Calif. – On Saturday, Sept. 25, the 18th annual Kelseyville Pear Festival begins with a parade down Main Street starting at 9:30 a.m.

Popular young Lake County singer, Makenna Rose Enger, will sing the national anthem to start the parade. The parade always begins a full day of fun activities that celebrate the county’s agricultural heritage.

This parade showcases all that is good about small town America. Marchers, walkers, floats, vintage vehicles, private cars, trucks, tractors, bicycles and horses are lined up to help celebrate harvest time.

This year the Lake County Quilt Trail joins the celebration. A clothe quilt has been stitched by a team of quilters. Each quilt block is a representation of a quilt design that makes up the Lake County Quilt Trail – see it at the corner of Main St. and First Street at the Methodist Church. Take time to see the entire quilt show filled with amazing creations. Raffle tickets for the LCQT Quilt will be available there.