The Punkinfiddle festival at the Wells Reserve at Laudholm on Saturday made good on its promise to let visitors touch the past. The 8th annual event hosted by the Laudholm Trust encourages people to become involved in preservation of the reserve by helping them envision how the land looked and functioned when it was a working farm.

Area craftspeople demonstrated old-fashioned arts and local musicians played traditional tunes. Children played games their ancestors enjoyed and learned about farm life. And the splendid Indian summer weather helped bring a big turnout.

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Olivia Lovejoy, 2, of Sanford pets Angora goats at the Punkinfiddle festival at the Wells Reserve at Laudholm on Saturday. Photos by Derek Davis/Staff Photographer

Moe Auger of Alfred makes a sculpture from a giant pumpkin during the Wells Reserve festivities. Derek Davis/Staff Photographer

Lucy Brogan, 5, left, of South Berwick and Momoka Mahara, 5, visiting from Japan, put all their might into the tug of war.

Isa Burke of South Berwick fiddles a tune.

Louise Caron of Springvale spins wool from Fluffy, an English Angora rabbit.

Oliver Robidoux, 6, of Waterboro bowls a pumpkin in one of the games during the Punkinfiddle festival in Wells.

Louise Roper, 4, of Kennebunk bounces through a potato-sack race.

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