The Pie Town Pie Festival, held on the second Saturday of September each year, is this tiny community's big annual event. Local bakers and visitors alike bring pies — fruit pies, cream pies, savoury pies — and the community gathers around the handful of buildings that constitute the town to eat, compete, and celebrate the place's unlikely claim to fame.
It is a genuinely warm, low-key, quintessentially American small-town event. There are no corporate sponsors, no elaborate staging, and no crowd of thousands. Just pies, neighbours, and a shared appreciation of the fact that they live in a place called Pie Town.