Munson Festival Will Celebrate Community Heritage

October 7, 2011

This weekend’s Munson Community Heritage Festival will take a look back at the way things used to be throughout northern Santa Rosa, Escambia and Okaloosa counties.

Vendors and exhibitors will bring back a life and time gone by with crafts and displays ranging from true Florida Cracker lifestyles, basket making, shoe cobbling and more.

The idea of the Festival is to bring alive the history of the area, demonstrate the old time ways of the Deep South as well as to promote culture. There will be live country, bluegrass and gospel music both days as well as wood-fired stove cooking and other food for sale. There also will be more modern merchants on hand representing the local business community. A working sawmill and live lumberjack competition will touch on tour area’s origins as a logging and timber community.

New for 2011 will be the Heritage Treasure Hunt. Children, adults and families can track clues and answer questions located throughout the Festival grounds to try to win various prizes while learning something about the rich heritage all around them. It’s one part game and one part history lesson.

There is a $5 parking fee per car for the event on Saturday and Sunday at Krul Lake Recreation Area in Munson. For more information, visit www.munsonheritagefestival.com.

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Written by William Reynolds · Filed Under News