Glastonbury Apple Harvest & Music Festival to draw 25,000 people [Video]

GLASTONBURY, Conn. — The Glastonbury Apple Harvest & Music Festival is in full swing this weekend.

The Connecticut River Valley Chamber of Commerce anticipates 25,000 people will turn out for the 49-year-old event, made possible by hundreds of volunteers.

Roberta Murphy works the pie booth, but it’s not the only community event for which the 72-year-old peels away her time.

“I’ve been volunteering my whole life,” Murphy said. “Just to know that I’ve helped makes me feel good. Just to know that somebody else is benefiting and maybe getting a smile from it.”

And she’s passing that volunteer spirit to the real apple of her eye – her grandson.

“Knowing that she likes to help people makes me want to as well,” her grandson Phoenix said. “She’s definitely my best friend.”

Together, they’re raising …