A couple dancing to Genesis' “Misunderstanding,” kids rolling down the hill at Onset Beach and dozens of vendors selling food, crafts and merchandise — not to mention the fireworks — were all sights to see at this year’s Harvest Moon Festival held on Sunday, Oct. 1. 

After several postponements due to inclement weather, the Onset Bay Association was finally able to host the much anticipated festival. At last, the community could get a cheeseburger, play games, hear live music and settle down after a long day for a fireworks display.

Kim Aldrich was perusing the jewelry of Jingle Cat Creations when she said her favorite parts of the festival were the vendors and the food, especially the fried dough.

“I love that they have the events up here and they are having them again,” Aldrich said. “I think the community looks forward to it.”

Sandra Elliot was running her vendor stand “Jingle Cat Creations” with her husband of 35 years, Shawn.

Shawn said Sandra began making the jewelry when their daughter went off to college.

“It gave me something to do with my hands instead of crying,” Sandra joked.

When their daughter and her friends had enough of mom’s homemade jewelry, they encouraged her to begin selling it. 

Four years later, Sandra has her own vendor booth filled with handmade earrings, rings and necklaces. 

Dennis Huston of Huston Graphic Design had a number of illustrations on display in the format of Christmas cards and blankets. 

Huston said he will go around town and get photos of scenes he likes and recreate them for his illustrations with added characters to tell a story.

He said the illustrations were originally for a children’s book, but he thought a warm blanket would be perfect for cozy story telling.

Charles Milton hosted a booth with various items and knickknacks he had picked up during his time scrapping.

He said all the items were piling up in his sister's backyard and he needed to do something with them and decided to start selling.

Milton added there were so many items they did not fit in the bed of his pickup truck — he ended up building an additional storage bed in two days in order to get all of it to the festival. 

He said he had a lot of “anxiety and anticipation” as the date for the festival approached, but added now that it’s happened he is “calm.”

“It made my summer,” Milton said.

Along with the festival's many vendors, there was also an antique car show at the Onset Bay Pier parking lot. 

Dozens of old cars filled the lot, including Ken Lessard’s 1937 Fiat Topolino, which he has owned for the last 27 years. 

“It's a lot of fun,” Lessard said. “It's built to look like an old race car.”

He added he bought it from a classifieds ad and loves the uniqueness of the car.

Adam Ogonowski had a blue Chevrolet corvette from the ’60s at the show.

Ogonowski said his grandfather purchased the car in 1978 and spent a few years restoring it. 

He added once restored, his grandfather would take him to car shows.

This past June, Ogonowski’s father passed the car down to him.

He said, “It's back on the road and going to car shows again, which is fun.”

Chelsea Roundtree was at the festival with her two kids Graham, 1, and Aubree, 7 as well as Doreen Stanizzi.

Stanizzi said she lives nearby and saw the post on Facebook for the event and invited the Rountree family to come down from Centerville.

“It’s a beautiful day,” she said. “The kids are having a blast.”

Aubree said her favorite part of the festival was the face painting.

Gemma Gray and Quinn Cushing were attending the festival together.

Gray said, “It’s super fun. I always like seeing all the vendors and stuff.”

“I really think that it's really fun to see the kind of community Onset is and Wareham is in general,” she added. “Because I feel like you can really get a feel of the people when you look at all the vendors and I mean, the music is great.”

She said, “There's really something here that everyone can enjoy.”