Around South County: Fall festivities - pies to pumpkins

The Deale Area Historical Society held a pie contest on Saturday at Greenstreet Gardens in Lothian. Nearly three dozen pies were entered, split between youth and adult categories.

Some of the pies included: apple, pumpkin cheesecake, blackberry cloud, blueberry, cherry custard, chocolate and more.

It cost $5 to enter a pie in the contest, with 100 percent of the proceeds going to the DAHS. Once the judges tasted the pies and made their decisions, pieces of the pie were sold to passers-by at $1 a slice.

This was the third year for the contest.

Chef John Kozik, of Skipper's Pier in Deale, was the official judge,...