Milford Oyster Festival
milford oyster festival sometimes shortened oysterfest annual cultural festival held third saturday august throughout city milford connecticut major tourist attraction billed largest oneday festival new england region listed among top annual event connecticut oyster festival draw attendee year planned nonprofit organization annual milford oyster festival inc amof largely run volunteer festival host wide variety activity age including art craft music sport amusement ride food oyster shucking first milford oyster festival held milford green fowler field august major founder oysterfest include diano nytko first chairperson milford chamber commerce robert n cooke bob cooke skin cancer foundation named since oyster festival become firmly established annual milford tradition held rain shine past oysterfest held two day proved much burden organizer initially established oyster festival presence actual oyster gradually faded time absent many year outside festival name oyster returned festival provided east coast shellfish grower association ever since starting milford began requiring nonprofit amof reimburse city spends – host festival year result decision amof could longer allow local nonprofit sell beer event major source income many nonprofit led alderman ben blake express concern festival may lose local flavor nonprofit group driven oyster festival food court resuming oyster festival harvested milford water provided briarpatch enterprise inc festival canceled due covid pandemic festival held usual although festival held previous year would th festival committee decided refer festival th annual milford oyster festival recognize year didnt occur every festival also includes headliner band many local regional business nonprofit governmental group sponsored event including nbc universal td bank whole food market money raised amof festival donated charitable purpose major fundraiser festival gulf coast fishing community whose oyster industry struggling shut bps deepwater horizon oil spill jodi rell nd governor connecticut attended festival linda mcmahon republican politician plunged firefighter dunk tank dunk favorite firefighter festival activity campaign seat u senate connecticut john smith worldtraveling sailor writer wrote kind sad hear none oyster recent oyster festival local water oyster boat museum book travel little fish big pond talking milford home town note resuming oyster festival milford water friday evening oysterfest surrounding event called oyster eve includes activity dancing dining minute cruise footlong schooner around long island sound around people came downtown milford oyster eve daniel street nightclub began hosting dubbed inaugural oyster festival party evening main event close year completes year party norwalk oyster festival oyster festival official website