PITTSBORO — The Seventh Annual Hog Wild on Main Street event here is one of the biggest events in town. This year’s event was Saturday on the grounds of Pittsboro United Methodist Church.
Each year the church invites residents to attend the festival, which features a car show, games, entertainment, and food, which was provided by Famous Dave’s Barbecue this year.
Proceeds from the event go to Sheltering Wings Center for Women and Children in Danville, with proceeds from some of the games going to Hendricks County Habitat for Humanity.
Organizer Debbie Morgan said about 1,000 people come out to the event each year.
“The only thing to pay for is the food and the car show; there is a registration fee for the cars and every year all that money goes to Sheltering Wings,” Morgan said. “The congregation brought in almost 900 desserts. This is one of the biggest events we do in the community.”
Morgan said the original idea for the event came from Cameron Daughtery, a church member.
“It was her vision seven years ago, it was on her heart and it started small,” Morgan said.
Daughtery said there were a few people who came up with the idea for the community festival.
“Originally, it was a hog roast and we were inviting the community and it grew from that, but that was the initial conception. Now it’s so much bigger and it’s so much more than we could have hoped for,” Daughtery said. “This is our best year yet.”
Daughtery said the church used to cook and provide the food, but it grew so large that they now cater out the food. The car show was also added during the fifth year.
“It was a vision I’d had of having hot rods and muscle cars line the parking lot and driveway, and one day in the office, (Debbie) said they were thinking about adding a car cruise, so it was meant to be part of the event,” Daughtery said.
One of the car show participants, Jason Thompson of Lebanon, owner of a 1977 Nova, said he’d heard earlier in the year about the event and the car show and decided to spend the day in Pittsboro. His mother and father were also at the event with their vehicle.
“We’ve been doing this 17 years now, we’ve built everything at our shop in Lebanon. We’re just doing it for fun,” Thompson said. “We were here for a yard sale in the spring, and got a flyer for (the car show) and the weather’s nice and we didn’t have anything else going on, so we came down.”
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