Mountain Marketplace Heritage Festival
sponsored by the Union County Historical Society
Free and open to the public, this
community event will be held Saturday -
Sunday, August 30 & 31, Labor Day weekend, 2008
10 a.m.
to 5 p.m , at the Mountain Life Museum just one block south of the
Historic Court House on the square. The Labor Day weekend event is
kindly underwritten by United Community Bank to honor its home
county.
Festival
Vendors at the Society's Heritage Center
1861
Payne Cabin
Basketweaving, cooking, farm animals, shingle splitting,
gold panning and much more!
See Photo
Slideshow of Marketplace and Heritage Festival
-
2005
See Photo Slideshow of Marketplace and Heritage
Festival
- 2006
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Mountain music, arts and crafts, and living history activities are
featured at the Marketplace, to
keep the area’s rich mountain heritage alive. It’s a fun-filled
family event, with something for all ages. Some of the highlights
of the Labor Day weekend event are:
1. all-day musical performances coordinated by Sam Ensley;
2. high quality Appalachian crafts, from basketry to pottery to
woodcrafts;
3. traditional foods such as homemade preserves;
4. living history around the Civil War-era log cabin, including
soldiers in period costume;
5. old-time cast-iron cooking over an open fire;
6. family activities from farm animals to gold-panning; and
7. descendants of pioneer families on hand to answer your questions
about local history.
Everyone
is invited and encouraged to join in these heritage festivities
Labor Day weekend. Mountain Marketplace at the Union County
Heritage Center,
10
a.m.-5 p.m., Blairsville. Music, spinning, quilting, campfire
cooking, gold-panning, mountain crafts.
Every
Labor Day weekend, the Mountain
Marketplace Heritage Festival celebrates
the history and mountain culture of Union County in downtown
Blairsville, Georgia.
Union County Historical Society of Georgia, Copyright 2006