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5 fests to help you fall in love with fall on the Grand Strand

A beautiful, mild Sunday provides the perfect setting for Brookgreen Gardens' Harvest Home Weekend Festival. The annual event features activities for children, including scarecrow building, pumpkin painting, hay rides and more.
A beautiful, mild Sunday provides the perfect setting for Brookgreen Gardens' Harvest Home Weekend Festival. The annual event features activities for children, including scarecrow building, pumpkin painting, hay rides and more. Matt Silfer for The Sun News.
  • “First Friday Art Walk,” 4-8 p.m. Friday, Oct. 6 in Five Points district in downtown Myrtle Beach, on and near Broadway and Main streets. 843-333-1212 or info@carlkerridge.com.
  • “Harvest Home Weekend” Fall Festival, 9:30 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday-Sunday, Oct. 7-8 at Brookgreen Gardens, on U.S. 17, between Murrells Inlet and Litchfield Beach, across from Huntington Beach State Park. Free with garden admission, which lasts seven days – $16 ages 13-64, $14 ages 65 and older, $8 ages 4-12, and free ages 3 and younger. 843-235-6000, 800-849-1931 or www.brookgreen.org.
  • Surfside Beach Family Festival, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 7 on Surfside Drive. 843-650-9548 or www.surfsidebeach.org.
  • Waccamaw Arts and Crafts Guild’s “Art in the Park,” 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday-Sunday, Oct. 7-8 at Myrtle Beach’s Chapin Park, 1400 N. Kings Highway. 843-446-3830 or www.artsyparksy.com.
  • In downtown Conway, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 7: “Conway Fall Festival,” Third Avenue and Laurel Street (843-488-1950 or www.conwayfallfestival.com); and “Live Oak Art + Music Fest,” at 1201 Third Ave. (843-248-4527 or www.createconway.org).

This story was originally published October 2, 2017 at 12:10 AM.

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