Community service

        I completed my community service at the annual apple harvest in Amherst center. The whole idea of the harvest is to get the town of Amherst to come together and support local farms and the local community. There were games where children could play, and many stands run by businesses and people from all around Amherst. The festival serves the whole town of Amherst and especially the small businesses because of all the exposure they get with the local inhabitants. The demographic of the people there was really all over the place. There were mostly family’s, but there were also elderly couples and a lot of teens and pre-teens walking around with their friends. The race and gender represented was typical of western Massachusetts. Mostly Caucasian but with a great verity of other races as well. There were amounts of each gender present. The socioeconomic backgrounds seemed to all be similar. People seemed to be middle class people of all kinds. Some richer than others, but for the most part all middle class. A lot of the people who were running the stands were farmers trying to promote their product. The rest of the volunteers were college kids or people from the town of Amherst.