About 15,000 visitors stopped by the annual Fall Foliage festival in Port Jervis on Sept. 22, according to the city’s longtime tourism board chairwoman Laura Meyer.
“It was the first day of fall, and the good weather really helped,” Meyer told The Epoch Times. “Everybody was happy—smiling faces everywhere—and having a good time.
“This is what this is all about—we want to make everybody happy,” she added.
More than 200 vendors—the most Meyers said the festival had ever hosted—lined the streets in the heart of the river city, selling food, drinks, handcrafts, home decor, and other kinds of merchandise, with bands banging out live music at several corners….