The city's third annual Heritage Harvest Festival celebrated the fall season on September 30th and October 1st, 2006, at Heritage State Park. The event, sponsored by the Friends of Heritage State Park and the Department of Conservation and Recreation, featured musical entertainment, arts and crafts, pony rides, and blacksmith, ceramic, weaving, and spinning demonstrations throughout the two days. The event began with a costume parade, led by Pirate Jack Sparrow of Funny Factory. Spiderman made an appearance on Sunday, and the program concluded with a demonstration by Eyes on Owls of Dunstable, MA. Click here for pictures of last year's event. Click here for the Herald News coverage of the event.
 

(Top row, left) Roula Karam, who recently immigrated to Fall River from Lebanon, accompanies her children Becharas, Malay, Emiel and Nan to the costume parade. (Top row, center) Imani, Shyauna and Bubba Fogle are escorted to the parade by Glenny Soto. (Top row, right) Nicole Garrafa, Hayden Levesque, Hailey DeMello and Emily Borgess get ready to line up for the parade. (Middle row, left) Kacie Lown and her mother Shari help Ember Proulx pick out pumpkins to decorate. (Middle row, center) Kyle Boivin of Somerset joins fellow pirate Captain Jack Sparrow for the start of the parade. (Middle row, right) Children gather at the pumpkin painting table. (Bottom row, left) Lisa  Gravette follows her son Jamie, dressed as a snail in the parade through the vendors' tent. (Bottom row, center) Carol Siembal of the Firends of Heritage State Park announces the winners of the costume contest. (Bottom row, right) Costume contest winners seven-year-old Bailey Lindo, six-year-olds Kyara Costa and Ryan Matta, seven-year-old Jamie Gravette and (see above) four-year-old Hayden Levesque line up for their prizes.