Pawpaw plants are carried out of the 20th Annual Festival in Albany, Ohio on Saturday, September 15, 2018. (Nickolas Oatley/WOUB)
Integration Acres sells pawpaws from their farm in Albany, Ohio at the 20th Annual Pawpaw Festival on Saturday, September 15, 2018. (Nickolas Oatley/WOUB)
Colin Dearth and Elliot Twelvetrees share a moment at the 20th Annual Pawpaw Festival on Saturday, September 15, 2018. They came down from Columbus to attend their first Pawpaw Festival with Twelvestrees' granddaughter. (Nickolas Oatley/WOUB)
Anya Crawford and Tony Gonzalezz kiss after being married in the middle of Pawpaw Festival on Saturday, September 18, 2018. Tony and Anya first met each other at Pawpaw Festival back in 2013. (Nickolas Oatley/WOUB)
Freekbass plays on the main stage at Pawpaw Festival on Saturday, September 15, 2018. (Nickolas Oatley/WOUB)
A pawpaw mascot dances its way to the main stage as festival-goers watch on Saturday, September 18, 2018. (Nickolas Oatley/WOUB)
A family kayaks in front of Pawpaw Festival tents on Lake Snowden. (Nickolas Oatley/WOUB)
Luke Welch holds a monarch butterfly next to Laura Diacko in the Monarch Tent on Saturday, September 15, 2018. (Nickolas Oatley/WOUB)
Kaitlin Kulich sells her first published book "Pawpaw is My Favorite Flavor!" at the 20th Annual Pawpaw Festival in Albany, Ohio on Saturday, September 15, 2018. Kulich is a senior at Ohio University studying journalism. (Nickolas Oatley/WOUB)
Matthew Shaftel tastes a paw paw at Ohio Paw Paw Festival in Albany, Ohio on Sept 15, 2018. (Yukai Peng/WOUB)
John Gradwohl, a professional bubble maker, makes bubbles at Ohio Paw Paw Festival in Albany, Ohio on Sept 15, 2018. (Yukai Peng/WOUB)
Dave Rudie, a local cook from Marietta, Ohio, shows the audience how to use paw paw to cook buttered milk chicken with his co-worker Dagmar Kupsche at the Ohio Paw Paw Festival in Albany, Ohio on Sept 15, 2018. (Yukai Peng/WOUB)
