Texas Blueberry Festival — Local services in Nacogdoches

My family and I drove 2 hours from Conroe yesterday to attend this festival. Have to say we were extremely disappointed. We arrived a little before 10 am and there were no fresh blueberries to be had. No jams, jellies etc. You could purchase a blueberry pie from Brookshire Brothers for $16.00. Only found 4 vendors selling blueberry baked goods. More business/political/church booths like at&t than handmade items for sell. The pie eating contest was stuck in a corner by the Brookshire Brothers booth and you couldn't even see it because there were so many people trying to crowd this very small table. The bands were excellent. The food was expensive. $7 for a cup of lemonade. Will not go again. Will stay local and pick...

We came all the way from Dallas to attend the festival. Very disappointing. No blueberries anywhere. No blueberry pies, blueberry pizza, no blueberry anything: Well, Brookshires had a booth where you could buy blueberries. 🫐 This was not worth the drive. And if we wanted to see or taste any blueberries.. we could drive 15 minutes to the nearest blueberry farm. We left after 35 minutes of nothing. There was a popcorn vendor with blueberry popcorn. That was it. We asked around and went directly to the booth that was selling t-shirts- why are there not any blueberries? They just shrugged their shoulders. We left to the tomato festival in Jacksonville. Maybe that...

Was saddened by the rudeness and lack of organization. Drove over an hour and a half then waited in line for 15-20 minutes to participate in painting a mural (while asked THREE times if I had a glove), but never told/asked if I had a certificate to participate. NO SIGNAGE. NO APOLOGIES. A sad joke. Never going back - and recommend people avoid the poorly...