Topsfield Auto Show

June 13, 2026 — It was a busy day in the town of Topsfield, Massachusetts. A car show was held on the spacious and attractive grounds of the Congregational Church while just across the street the Strawberry Festival was going on in the Town Common.

The 300-year-old church made an attractive centerpiece for the car show which offered a good variety of classics from the '40s on up, a few trucks and a custom here and there. Another impressive building overlooking the show was the 1873 Topsfield Town Hall.

In the Strawberry Festival across the street many craft booths offered a variety of locally made products, some farm machinery, a live band and delicious strawberry shortcakes that kept people lined up to sample them all day.

You can see some of the action at this link:

https://www.linwoodstreet.com/topsfield/

 

Goffstown and Marlborough

June 6-7, 2026 — I thought the weekend was lost. Right up until Friday all the meteorologists were predicting heavy rain and thunderstorms Saturday and Sunday. They couldn't have been more wrong. Saturday was muggy with a thin cloud cover most of the day, but no rain. The Goffstown Rotary Car Show in Goffstown, New Hampshire, took advantage of the unexpected dry weather and hosted a large turnout of cars and spectators. This and Bow Rotary are a couple of my must-see shows to start off every season. A lot of the same cars show up year after year and it's difficult to find cars I haven't photographed before, so I try to make up for the repetition with different photographic compositions.

Sunday was even better with bright sun, occasionally blocked by puffy white clouds, at the Marlborough Main Street Care Show in Marlborough, Massachusetts. Marlborough is turning into a primarily custom and personal car show, much bigger than Goffstown Rotary but I had trouble finding more variety. But it's still great show in a very photogenic downtown with its city hall tower and the ornate First Baptist Church anchoring one end of Main Street. A marching band comes through once at every show, scattering the crowd. This year Heather Storm, television host, producer, director and car expert, greeted spectators and posed for pictures with them.

You can see my coverage of Goffstown Rotary Car Show at this link:

https://www.linwoodstreet.com/goffstown2026/

And Marlborough Main Street Car Show at this link:

https://www.linwoodstreet.com/marlborough26/