ANDOVER — The 32nd annual Andover Olde Home Days kicks off its three days of family fun Friday.

This year’s celebration will include new events such as a skillet-throwing contest and the Kavanaugh Amusement Carnival.

All the many popular attractions from past Andover Olde Home Days are back, including the parade, the car show featuring classic automobiles, hot rods and muscle cars, concerts, a 5K road race, scores of vendors, a barbecue, lawn tractor races, horse show, road apple roll, library book sale, food, horse-drawn rides around town and much more.

The festivities begin Friday evening with a band concert on the Common at 6:30 p.m.

Events on Saturday, the busiest of the three days for fair events, begin at 8 a.m. at the Andover Elementary School with the 7th annual Andover Olde Home Days Road Races, including a 5K race and a one-mile race.

The parade will head down Main Street at 10 a.m. Saturday. A dance will be held at the fire station featuring Noel Palmer.

Olde Home Days wraps up on Sunday with an open horse show in South Andover beginning at 9 a.m.

Admission to Andover Olde Home Days is free of charge, and there is plenty of free parking in the lower recreational field.

For more information call Vickie and Marshall Meisner at 392-4311. Interested vendors may call Judy Michaud at 392-1221.

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