Boiled peanuts, other foods from vendors, arts and crafts, a parade, cloggers, bands, and tractor races for fast-pedaling kids and slow-driving adults return to downtown Brooklet this Saturday, Sept. 20. The 36th Annual Brooklet Peanut Festival offers up this heaping helping of family fun beginning with the parade at 10 a.m.

Free, live entertainment at the festival site around the Randy Newman Community Center between East Lee and Railroad Streets cranks up after the parade.

Meanwhile, the tractor races are slated to roll at noon and shortly thereafter. Sign-up opportunity begins at 11:30 a.m. for the Kiddie Pedal Tractor Race, sponsored by AgSouth Farm Credit and open to children ages 4 to 7, with tractors provided for kids to compete by age group.

The Slow Tractor Race, on Warnock Str

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