32nd annual Carytown Watermelon Festival this Sunday

The cherished annual tradition kicks off on the Mile of Style Sunday at 10:00 AM.

August 6, 2015; 10:02 AM • by Trevor Dickerson

Watermelon is the perfect summer food. Brought to the New World by European colonists and slaves from southern Africa in the 1600s, the universal appeal of the fruit and vegetable — it’s sort of both — is the unifying theme of the Carytown Watermelon Festival. The annual event always packs in a varied crowd numbering in the six-figure range. Hopefully the weather will be hospitable, because eating watermelon and losing yourself in the street parade of vendors, live music and humanity on a nice day is a cherished Richmond tradition.