Hundreds attend annual Southport Spring Festival

SOUTHPORT, NC (WWAY) — Southport is ringing in the spring season in style with a good old fashion spring festival this weekend.

Hundreds of people were out and about checking out vendors and eating yummy food. It’s a Southport tradition people from all over come to see. For more than 30 years Southport has put on it’s Annual Spring Festival, and this year in Franklin Square Park– it’s bigger and better than ever.

Marion Martin, the vendor coordinator, says they couldn’t have asked for better weather, “Honey we got sunshine today. Sometimes we’ve had to deal with rain and wind and everything, but it’s a perfect weekend.”

Hundreds of people enjoying the festivities, from first time visitors, to those who come every year — there’s something for everyone to enjoy.

Festival goer Pearson Cummings told us, “It’s wonderful. The weather’s great, the music’s great. The rum cake, I’ve never had rum cake quite like that in my life, it’s wonderful.” With around 175 vendors, not including the food vendors there’s something for everybody.

For Pearson Cummings, it’s his first time attending the festival and it won’t be his last. “The kids, the family atmosphere,and the food and the jewelry looks amazing. I’m going to have to get my wife something nice.”