If you live in Evergreen, you already know that the second half of October reorganizes the calendar. Traffic on 84 picks up. The Chamber office at 100 Depot Square starts getting phone calls from cook-off teams. Somebody's cousin from Andalusia is coming in for the weekend. All of it circles back to one hickory-smoked pork sausage made a few miles from your kitchen.
That is the thing worth saying out loud about fall here. Most small Alabama towns have a festival. Evergreen has a food identity, and the festival is only the loudest weekend of it. Conecuh sausage is the reason people drive off the interstate. The Collard Green Festival exists because the state legislature designated Evergreen a specific kind of capital more than fifty years ago. The Southern plates at Sweet P's and Old Town Grille lean on the same pantry. Fall is when all of that gets pulled into the open at once.
The Weekend That Anchors The Season
Mark the third Saturday. The Evergreen-Conecuh Chamber of Commerce has confirmed that
