EVENTS and PROGRAMS

Heritage Day & Folk Festival, 2008. To be held on Satruday, November, 1, 2008 from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM. Vendor applications are being taken now.  Phone (850) 537-5714 or click on "Breaking News and What's New" icon on homepage.  Tentative activities include food, music, folk life demonstrations, syrup-making or peanut boil, book sales...amd much more.

Heritage Day &  Folk Festival, 2007.  The antique cars exhibit was a big hit. We sold out of the homemade syrup early in the day; folks loved it!  The log cabin was officially opened to visitors.  The Native American outside exhibit was very popular.  We had jams, jellies and butter-making again this year. Someone asked if there would be homemade fry break and pepper-sauce for sale next year?  The music and children's activies stayed busy all day.  And, the best part for us - more folks attended this year than last.  We must be doing something right!!

Heritage Day & Folk Festival, 2006
The 2006 Heritage Days and Folk Festival was held on the Museum grounds, November 4th. There were old time heritage demonstrations: shingle making, open hearth cooking, flint knapping, deerskin trader, blacksmith, and more from 10AM till 8PM.

There was live entertainment; local gospel and bluegrass bands  formed throughout the day. There were children's activities.
Indian fry bread and Tacos were available along with other foods.  Folks toured the museum and the old buildings in the park.

Things to see: Log Cabin fireplace cooking with butter making.  A spinner on our new spinning wheel.  A lady crocheting.  Flint nappers.  Indian Deerhide man (Nathan Chesser).  Turpine dislay with still made to scale and many other artificats, with Raymon Melvinl.  Fresh vegetables.  Crestivew car oldies with the lady flapper.  Black smith shop demonstration in new black smith shop.  Shingle making.  Walton Guard with ladies demonstrating making quilts from that era.  Homemade jellies, jams, pickles with other home made items

Things to do: Making shuck dolls.  Buggy rides.  Bobbing for apples, playing checkers (kids).  Shelling corn.  Grinding corn into meal.  Museum and Library open.  Heritage Vol II booth for help in ordering or writing.  Blountstown Heritage Park display.  Defuniak Springs Historical Assoc. display.  Heritage Museum of North West Florida display.  Music all day with different groups, inviduals,etc. Folks can bring lawn chairs, gathered, fellowshiped and  listened  to singing.

Heritage Day & Folk Festival, 2005 (View photos of the event)

Museum Tours Click on this link to take a virtual tour of the museum.

Learning Pages ;Click below to view and download individual topics in the learning pages.  They are written for a 4th through 6th grade reading level but everyone can learn from them and increase their knowledge of local history and culture.