Albion hosts annual festival Friday and Saturday
Reagan Veren and Norah Veren engage with the crowd gathered for the Albion Trail Festival parade on Saturday morning.
Kids line up to play in bouncy houses and adults browse the vendor booths at Iowa River’s Edge Market Craft & Vendor Show outside of the Albion Municipal Library and Heritage Center.
Heart of Iowa Communications Cooperative sponsored the Albion Express, a mini train which gave rides to children and adults during the festival.
Kids go down a slide in a bouncy house which looks like a gingerbread house, fitting with the Albion Rail Trail Festival theme of Sweet Adventures.
Jacki Whitmore Gray speaks with customers lining up for some free cotton candy. A retired teacher who lives in State Center, she grew up in Albion.
Jacki Whitmore Gray stirs cotton candy on Saturday during the Albion Trail Festival. In her 64 years, she had never made the fluffy confection and got some on her arms, but that did not stop children from lining up to get a bag.
Briar Mann, 15 months, son of Tessa Mann of Marshalltown, wanders into the Albion Municipal Library after checking out the outside festival games and activities.
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- Reagan Veren and Norah Veren engage with the crowd gathered for the Albion Trail Festival parade on Saturday morning.
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- Kids line up to play in bouncy houses and adults browse the vendor booths at Iowa River’s Edge Market Craft & Vendor Show outside of the Albion Municipal Library and Heritage Center.
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- Heart of Iowa Communications Cooperative sponsored the Albion Express, a mini train which gave rides to children and adults during the festival.
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- Kids go down a slide in a bouncy house which looks like a gingerbread house, fitting with the Albion Rail Trail Festival theme of Sweet Adventures.
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- Jacki Whitmore Gray speaks with customers lining up for some free cotton candy. A retired teacher who lives in State Center, she grew up in Albion.
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- Jacki Whitmore Gray stirs cotton candy on Saturday during the Albion Trail Festival. In her 64 years, she had never made the fluffy confection and got some on her arms, but that did not stop children from lining up to get a bag.
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- Briar Mann, 15 months, son of Tessa Mann of Marshalltown, wanders into the Albion Municipal Library after checking out the outside festival games and activities.
The annual Albion Rail Trail Festival was held on Friday and Saturday and drew hundreds of people to the Marshall County community. The festival, which had a theme of Sweet Adventures, serves as a kickoff to annual summer celebrations in the area. This year featured an Albion Fire Department pancake breakfast, a bicycle ride, corn hole tournament, train rides, live music by the Punching Pandas, a parade and the crowning of Winter Wolgamott and Steel Betts as Little Miss and Mr. Albion. The Iowa River’s Edge Market Craft & Vendor Show attracted a large number of booths and customers. As parents shopped for items such as jewelry, wood crafts and baked goods, children played in bouncy houses and engaged in free games.
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