Katharine Martin-Savage had good luck finding gifts for family members Saturday at First Congregational Church’s Oktoberfest in Wiscasset. The Wiscasset woman bought kitchen knives for her grandson, a college sophomore with his first apartment this year.

She got four birdhouses for her daughter and son-in-law who will be building a home on a property abutting hers. The nautical-style wine glasses might go to her daughter-in-law who has a nautical theme at home.

Martin-Savage got herself a quilt. Then she moved on to the pumpkins.

She deliberated on a choice first by shape, then went with one based on the twist of its stem.

That gave the pumpkin character, she said.

Martin-Savage is a regular attendee at fundraisers in town, including those of the Congregational Church. “I like to support anything local, and I have a lot of friends here. If I was going to go to a church this would be it,” she said in the church’s parish hall, amid the scent of cider and the fiddling and guitar-playing of members of the Oyster Creek Fiddlers.

Held each year following the church’s Summerfest that raises money for various community causes, Oktoberfest is a smaller fair benefiting the church through a silent auction and other sales.

“We work together. We’re a really wonderful church that way,” Oktoberfest Chairman Margot Stiassni-Sieracki of Edgecomb said. ”We all pitch in and plan ahead and then pull it together on the day. It’s just kind of a nice social thing also. It’s nice to have neighbors come in and take advantage of the yummy sauerkraut and bratwurst and baked goods.”

Making sauerkraut with apples and onions the day before the event, she got to know one of her fellow volunteers better, she said. “I learned all kinds of things about her I hadn’t known.”

That’s one of the things she likes about working on the event, she said.