Editing Ellington, New York (section)

==Ellington Town Picnic==
Every year on the first Friday, Saturday, and Sunday of August, the town hosts it famous "Ellington Town Picnic". The picnic has activities such as a woodcutting contest, cake contest and auction, pet show contest, baby contest, horseshoe throwing contest, BBQ, square dance and music, and on Saturday at 10:00 PM the town has a brilliant fireworks show near the north east side of the town park on Saturday night of the picnic at 10:00 PM.

'''Town Picnic History:'''
Arriving to the town square by horse and buggy with a dish to pass, the Ellington community gathered for the first official Town Picnic in 1905. As electricity came to Ellington the event expanded from a one day get-together to the three day event it is now. For a few years early on political speakers were asked to orate at the event, but this was quickly dropped. This picnic has been going year after year except during the World Wars since 1912 to present day making it the oldest small town picnic in America.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.ellingtontownpicnic.org/ |title=Ellington Town Picnic - Ellington Town Picnic |access-date=July 9, 2016 |archive-date=August 16, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160816140222/http://www.ellingtontownpicnic.org/ |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Gilbert|first=Roger|title=Ellington And Its People|publisher=Roger Gilbert|year=2010}}</ref>