Fall is my favorite season. The leaves are pretty, and I enjoy the milder temperatures. Fall brings corn mazes, which I love, and giant pumpkins. Fall also brings us closer to my favorite community event, the Once Upon a Pie Baking Competition and Auction.
Once Upon a Pie has been a favorite of mine since our family moved to Goffstown. One year, we hosted a pie party to get ready and test our pie ideas out on our friends to figure out which ones we’d enter in the competition.
Now that the Foundation has taken the reins for this event, I get to be involved in all aspects from planning, to categorizing pies and helping to ensure that the event runs smoothly.
Our board of directors is already hard at work planning for this year’s Once Upon a Pie scheduled for November 22. We’ll host the event at Goffstown High School again this year, so if you haven’t blocked the day off in your calendar yet, this is your reminder.
While the directors work hard to bring this event to the community, it would not be possible without our many friends and neighbors willing to volunteer. Everyone who bakes a pie (or a few), all of our judges and all the volunteers who help us throughout out the day with set-up, intake, and pie slicing are an integral part of the event. We couldn’t do it without you all and we are beyond grateful for each and every one of you.
If you’ve never attended, it’s a great night of community and coming together to support the needs of our library. If you’ve enjoyed the event and want to volunteer to help out for an hour or two on the day of the event, we’d love to have your support. Please use our sign-up form to let us know you’d like to volunteer and how to get in touch with you.
I hope you’ll join us at Once Upon a Pie this year. It’s time to start dreaming up new winning flavor combinations. See you November 22, 2025!
Until then, I’ll be dreaming of pie.
Aimee Huntemann
GPLF Board of Directors