The Boone Heritage Festival • Saturday October 13th, 2012, From 9AM to 4 PM, Have fun with the family, learning about history through 18th century demonstrations, crafts, music, storytelling and dance. Celebrating Appalachian heritage and Daniel Boone’s legacy with 18th century living history demonstrations, craft and food vendors, music jam sessions, a liar’s bench, children’s make-and-take crafts, and live music and storytelling by some of the region’s best in old-time traditions. Admission to the Boone Heritage Festival is FREE.
The Southern Appalachian Historical Association and the town of Boone, North Carolina present The Boone Heritage Festival the second Saturday in October, Saturday October 13th, 2012, From 9AM to 4 PM. The festival is held outdoors in the beautiful wooded setting of the Hickory Ridge Living History Museum. The focus of the event is Appalachian traditions, history, and heritage as well as contemporary Appalachian life.
The 2012 Boone Heritage Festival presents music and storytelling performances by: Glenn Bolick, Mary Greene, Orville Hicks, Charlotte Ross, The Sheets Family, Lonnie Ward, Rick Ward, Charlie Glenn, Robert Dotson, Gordy Hinners, John Turner, Elkville String Band, Kay and Patrick Crouch, Brandon Holder and Adam Jarrell, Cecil Gurganus, Steve Kruger, Tori Cox
The day’s events include music and storytelling with music jam sessions all day, where both amateurs and professionals can join in. The jam sessions are open to musicians, dancers and listeners alike. You can even get a hands-on, mini music lesson in exchange for a small donation. Fun and entertaining cake walks will be featured in between sets throughout the day.
Make-and-take crafts activities include dipped candles, corn husk dolls, rag dolls, scarecrows, foil “tin-punch” crafts and more. Sign up for the pumpkin-carving contest; gutted pumpkins and carving tools will be provided. You provide the creativity!
Adjacent to the Museum property, Daniel Boone Native Gardens will be offering free, guided tours of the Gardens at designated time. Explore the varied “rooms” of the Gardens, featuring a bog garden, fern garden, rhododendron grove, vine-covered arbor and others.
The First Annual Boone Heritage Festival took place on October 8th 2011 and was attended by approximately 1500 people. Boone Heritage Festival is the major fund and friend-raiser for Hickory Ridge Living History Museum. Admission is free, but donations are accepted. For more information about the Boone Heritage Festival please visit the Heritage Festival Website at www.booneheritagefestival.com
Pyatt’s Herbs and More Susan Byerly’s Fried Apple Pies Kim Hogan Funnel Cakes Rhinno Woodturning Ted Tester’s Gifts and More Debi Trivette Cornhusk Dolls and Dreamcatchers Apple Hill Farm Alpacas Long Family Farm Soaps The Farmer’s Wife Fried Apple Pies Bill Moseley Crafts The Wolf Lake Weaver Maggie Russell Jewelry Simple Gifts Quilts Shannon Boyd Glassworks Nancy Pinter’s Sew Cute Arvil Hardy’s Handcrafts, Furniture and Woodworking
Presenting Sponsor of Boone Heritage Festival Boone Tourism Development Authority Town of Boone
Partners of Hickory Ridge Mast General Store Wells Fargo Bank
Raffle Sponsors LuLu’s Links Carol Sheets of White Ford Focus Hand Crafted by Martha Ringail Maille Anna Banana’s Eco Chic Knits Green On Me Earth Mama Light Lover
Patrons of Hickory Ridge George and Michelle Ligon Kelly and Ayaz Coban
For More Information
FaceBook • www.facebook.com/HickoryRidgeLivingHistoryMuseum
WebSite • www.booneheritagefestival.com
Contact • hickoryridge@hickoryridgemuseum.com
Source, Graphic & Photo Credits • www.booneheritagefestival.com
Hickory Ridge Living History Museum • The Mountains of North Carolina are rich in history. The Cherokee Indians, Daniel Boone and other early explorers and settlers are an important part of the history of our country. At the Hickory Ridge Living History Museum you can learn what life was like in the 1700s as our country was formed and expanded.
Hickory Ridge Living History Museum is located on the grounds of Horn in the West, the nation’s oldest Revolutionary War drama, in Boone, North Carolina. Hickory Ridge Living History Museum was created in 1980 to foster a better understanding of the life of the settlers in the Horn in the West outdoor drama.
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Staffed with interpreters in period clothing, the 18th century homestead gives visitors a glimpse into the past and a feeling for the daily lives of early mountain settlers including how they lived, and what constituted a ‘typical’ mountain homestead.
The museum also provides insight into the self sufficiency of our forefathers by showing the routines and skills they possessed such as hearthside cooking, weaving, making candles, spinning, blacksmithing, etc.
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The museum strives to recreate the atmosphere of a small mountain community around the time of the Revolutionary War when furnishings were sparse but the family was diverse with its religion, humor, and self sufficiency, creating a warm atmosphere. The Museum also features a number of special events each year.
Horn in the West and Hickory Ridge Living History Museum are productions of the Southern Appalachian Historical Association Inc. (S.A.H.A.). It is supported by the town of Boone and over 1,000 local business in various ways. S.A.H.A is responsible for the continuation of the Horn in the West, Hickory Ridge Living History Museum, and related productions and events .
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The Southern Appalachian Historical Association Records at The Appalachian State University Library include SAHA’s administrative papers, correspondence, brochures, souvenir programs, newspaper and magazine articles, photographs, and films relating to the organization, regional history, and the play, “Horn in the West.”
Also included are materials relating to the establishment of Daniel Boone Native Gardens, The Daniel Boone Trail, Overmountain, and Buffalo Trails, research into Appalachian people and culture, Daniel Boone and his descendants, other productions at the Powderhorn Theater and Daniel Boone Amphitheater, and materials relating to Hickory Ridge Homestead and the museum’s holdings.
The William Leonard Eury Appalachian Collection at ASU’s Belk Library is a repository with more than 44,000 volumes of books, over 200 periodical subscriptions, 8,000 sound recordings, and 1,500 videos and DVDs related to the Southern uplands, with strengths in the social sciences, regional history, folklore, music, religion, genealogy, fiction, and African and Native Appalachia.
For More Information
FaceBook • www.facebook.com/HickoryRidgeLivingHistoryMuseum
WebSite • www.hickoryridgemuseum.com
Horn In The West • www.horninthewest.com
Contact • hickoryridge@hickoryridgemuseum.com
Source, Graphic & Photo Credits • www.facebook.com/HickoryRidgeLivingHistoryMuseum
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