The Wyckoff House – a Dutch farmhouse that is the oldest existing building in New York City – held its annual Apple Festival on Sunday, September 20. Did you go? It was a lot of fun!

There was freshly-pressed apple cider. Not that pasteurized garbage they sell at Waldbaums. Certainly not the product that Starbucks refers to as “cider” that is actually commercially filtered apple juice. I’m talking about the good stuff.

There were also apple fritters. I’d call them homemade… but I haven’t seen a home that makes apple fritters like this!

And they certainly didn’t last long.

There was also a tent for making arts and crafts with apples. This bag turned into a carrying case for a digital camera… but it was pointed out it would be perfect to hold an Apple iPod.

There was also this cool jug band called Bill Carney’s Jug Addicts that performed at the festival. (Don’t know what a jug band is? Neither did I. God bless Wikipedia!) I thought these people looked like they could really rock out at The Mercury Lounge if you gave them some electric guitars and some synths. And I have it on good authority that the Bill Carney of Bill Carney’s Jug Addicts was also in a NYC-based faux-Francais power-pop rock band or something called Les Sans Culottes.

I totally bought their CD before I left. So if you see me on the N-train tomorrow bobbing my head and tapping my feet with my headphones in my ears… I could be bobbing and tapping to this cool jug band. (Or it could be Green Day. Or Metric. Or Bananarama. You can never tell with me, honestly.)