Mystic ― On the second day of Olde Mistick Village’s Apple Festival Sunday, Anne and John DiCiccio, of East Hartford, and daughter Roni, of Waterford, shared a shady bench, and ate “gigundo” (jie-gun-do) apple crisps.
“Gigundo” ― which Anne explained means a cross between gigantic and enormous ― was how she referred to the apple crisps, which the three had purchased from a nearby booth ran by popular Gales Ferry-based apple orchard Holmberg Orchards, and now ate on the bench, away from thousands who walked by.
As music drifted in the air from three bands playing simultaneously, people who passed by wandered the village, targeting their next apple treat from a selection of pies, crisps, crumbles and hot and cold ciders. Meanwhile the DiCiccios, having already found theirs, reflected on the annual festival, which this weekend brought thousands of visitors, and more than 40 vendors, together in appreciation of one fruit…