Harvest Moon's Jubilee

Every year during the first week of Midvernal the farmers of Evoria await the especially close and bright Harvest Moon phase. This moon appears larger in the sky and is said to be a blessing from Chauntea. The farmers and helpers use this extra night to finish up harvesting and prepare for the following night's festivites.
The next day the farmhands go into the fields and find the best spot for a fire. They clear the flammable chaff and grass away and go out to gather stones. Anyone who isn't a farmhand stays and begins the cooking. The cooking takes all day. The lunch is traditionally a small sandwich and handful of berries and nuts. The farmhands go back to work and the cooks return inside.
Come nightfall the moon, which isn't as powerful as the previous night, shines bright down upon all. Here, residents gather their families and visit each other's bonfire islands in the stretches of farmland. Tables are set up outside where the food is placed. Barrels of cider are rolled out and set up. Special pots are used to heat up the cider on the bonfire. Every neighbor visits each other and exchanges gifts or forgives debts.
The actual festivities include a plethora of games or husking competitions or quilting races. Many also participate in bobbing for apples in water, or a threshing line where farmhands use their threshing skills to compete for a prize, usually a barrel of cider. The barns are thrown open to exhibit that year's yield. The farmhands go about bragging or whistling to the yields, using innuendo to hint at how they raised such a great harvest. In the end, they all congratulate each other, slapping each other on the backs and giving hearty laughter.
A traveling priest or cleric of Chauntea or Pelor will visit on these nights, bestowing blessings upon those who give them a morsel to continue. The traditional food is corn and cider. After the priest or cleric visit another round of merriment goes around with more drinking and high stakes on the games they play.
Each family will stay up as long as they can. Usually the grandfathers and grandmothers of the family stay up the latest, reminiscing of the "good ol' days" as they sip on cider and stare in the hot, orange fire.
The next day begins the off-season and so they farmhands set out with axes on their shoulders to gather firewood for the winter.