CHICOPEE, Mass. (WWLP) - Thursday is National Pie Day, which celebrates one of the Nation's favorite desserts. Tower Square Hot Table hosts Polar Vortex Challenge to benefit Springfield Rescue Mission The National Day Calendar states that the first pie appeared around 9500 BC in the Egyptian Neolithic period or New Stone Age. The American Pie Council created National Pie Day back in 1986 to celebrate Crisco's 75th anniversary of “serving foods to families everywhere.” If you take away ice cream as a dessert choice, most people would choose to either have pie or cake, or, people would choose to have cake or pie with their ice cream. There are multiple different kinds of pie, and most of them don’t even include fruit, such as chicken pot pie. To celebrate, go grab yourself a slice of pie at one of these best places to get a pie in western Massachusetts, according to Yelp: Florence Pie Bar– 17 Main Street, Florence Tart Baking Co– 192 Main Street, Northampton Atkins Farm– 1150 West Street, Amherst Chmura's Bakery - 14 Pulaski Street, Springfield Bartlett’s Orchard– 575 Swamp Road, Richmond Rice Fruit Farm– 757 Main Street, Wilbraham Randall’s Farm– 631 Center Street, Ludlow Auntie Cathie’s Kitchen– 159 Main Street, Agawam Hager’s Farm Market– 1232 Mohawk Trl, Shelburne Falls Taft Farms– 119 Park Street N, Great Barrington Local News Headlines Crews work to repair water main break on Shattuck Road in Russell Man charged in Old Saybrook boat crash that killed 3 people Healey warns Trump tariffs will spark price increases House looking for “detailed answers” on shelter system WWLP-22News, an NBC affiliate, began broadcasting in March 1953 to provide local news, network, syndicated, and local programming to western Massachusetts. Watch the 22News Digital Edition weekdays at 4 p.m. on WWLP.com.