This year’s Frankfort Fall Festival may have been one of the most successful in the event’s 43-year history, said Festival Chair Mark Giovanazzi.

“It was just a consistent fest this year,” Giovanazzi said of the  arts and fair craft, which according to early estimates, drew more than 200,000 visitors. The festival  was held Saturday through Monday. (Photos: Artists sell their wares)

The 300 artisans also reported high sales this year despite bad weather Saturday afternoon that forced the festival to close down about an hour early, Giovanazzi said.

The crowds made up for it on Sunday, however, packing the streets and buying up some artists’ inventory until they had nothing left to sell, he said. Sunday may have been one of the busiest days ever in the festival’s history.

“It seems as if the sales were, if not the same as last year, maybe even a little better,” he said.

Sales at the food court and artists tents typically slow down at 1 p.m. Sunday, when the Fall Festival Parade starts. But Giovanazzi said that wasn’t the case this year as visitors packed the festival streets and the parade route.

Now that it’s over the Chamber of Commerce and all those involved will spend the next few days recovering, he said.

“Now the whole thing is to get the town back to its normal self,” he said. “To get the grass to grow back in again.”