Who wants to thrash around in a big pit of mashed potatoes?

Well, then, if you are anywhere near Fort Fairfield this Saturday, you're in luck!

That's the day of the Maine Potato Blossom Festival's mashed potato wrestling contest, where a whole bunch of people get to wallow around in a pit of mashed potatoes, all vying for the title of top 'tater.

But if you can't wait until then, there's plenty of potato celebrating to go around all week, as the celebration continues this week and into this coming Sunday, July 20.

There are lots of fun things to do, through the week: Pageants, food, parades, music and fireworks as well as potato-picking, beard-growing and skillet-throwing contests.

But the highlight of the festival is the mashed potato wrestling contest, which has been on hiatus for several years and returns for every hungry Jack and Jill for miles around.

Press Herald file photo

Potato wrestling from the past: Mark Boynton, 8, from Millinocket, got the upper handful of mashed potatoes on Kyle Zuidema, 5, from Fort Fairfield. Photo from July 18, 1998.