Erie’s Biscuit Day will look a tad different this year after members of the town’s Historical Society say the event has outgrown their resources.

The annual Biscuit Day will still happen from 8 to 11 a.m. Saturday, with local businesses Lucile’s Creole Cafe and Stacy’s Kitchen stepping up to keep the tradition going. On the menu at both establishments will be a $10 plate of biscuits and gravy.

Family-friendly activities, including two “No-Hands Biscuit and Jam Eating” contests, will also take place Saturday in the parking lot at 212 Wells St. A full schedule and more information is available on the event’s webpage.

But Biscuit Day will be smaller than in past years, when the Erie Historical Society hosted up to 30 booths along Briggs Street, according to Erin Wise Jones, the society’s president.

The society has hosted Biscuit Day since 2002, relying on town grants, donations and volunteers to run the event.

Biscuit Day has typically been the society’s only fundraising event of the year, bringing in “upwards of $15,000” to help cover maintenance costs at the Wise Homestead Museum, Jones said.

The society decided not to organize this year’s Biscuit Day because of how large the event has become. Jones said she doesn’t have specific attendance data but that “in the last several years, it’s gotten so big that it’s really been a strain.”

Last year, the event served up 3,000 biscuits and more than 50 gallons of gravy.

Erie has grown rapidly “to the point where, when we started it in 2002, it was a small local community event that one person could handle,” Jones said, adding that most of the society’s members are either working full time or retired and “could not take on the chore of organizing everything and coordinating everything for such a huge event.”

“We’re thrilled that it has morphed into this huge community-loved event and I couldn’t be more delighted, but we just don’t have the participation and the membership to keep it going,” she said.

The Erie Historical Society was founded in 1984 to help preserve the town’s history, and while Erie’s population has grown significantly in recent years, support for the society has not kept pace, according to Jones.

“As far as why people aren’t sticking around with the society to help as docents, I don’t know. I think it boils down to people being busy, they have jobs,” she said.

Jones said nearby historical preservation groups in Lafayette and Louisville receive some support from their local governments, while Erie’s does not have the same funding pipeline. Without its usual Biscuit Day fundraiser, the Erie Historical Society is “struggling this year trying to figure out how to generate the same income.”

The society on Saturday will hold a silent auction at a booth in the Bridge Refill Market parking lot at 285 Cheesman St.

Bids will “help care for artifacts, share historic photographs and printed materials, and keep programs like Blacksmith Shop renovation and the Wise Homestead Museum open to visitors,” according to the auction’s webpage.

Jones’ great-aunt Sarah Allene Wise, who died last month, helped start the historical society and was instrumental in creating the Wise Homestead Museum, a former farmhouse belonging to their forebears, one of the pioneering families of the St. Vrain Valley.

“She was just a dynamo, and really put her heart and soul into this, so we really feel like we’re carrying the torch and trying to keep it alive,” Jones said of her great-aunt, and the legacy she left behind.

Looking forward, Jones hopes the historical society will be able to organize next year’s Biscuit Day.

“We just need the fiscal support and the people power to pull it off,” she said.