Heritage Festival Saturday At Scott County Museum

Huntsville, TN (2011-09-16) The 5^th Annual Scott County Heritage Festival will be held this weekend at the Scott County Museum in Huntsville. The event is free to the public.

On Saturday, the students of Scott High School welcome everyone to their 5^th Annual Heritage Festival, a celebration of the rich cultural history of Scott County. From 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., visitors will get a unique opportunity to relive the history of our community through a series of live interpretive demonstrations and reenactments, including horse shoeing, yarn spinning, hatchet throwing, flint knapping, frontier characters, sorghum making, native American pow wow, civil war reenactment, soap making, and more. Abe Lincoln is also scheduled to make a visit. Attendees will have the chance to participate in a variety of games and activities, and plenty of food will be available on site.

The Scott High School Journalism Class will be taking old time photographs.

At the core of our region’s history is bluegrass and gospel music, which told the stories of mountain life. Scheduled to perform Saturday are: The Hancock Family, Journeymen, Barefoot Movement, the Brimstone Boys, and the Scott High School Bluegrass Band.

New to this year’s festival will be a live auction of goods at 5:00 p.m. Saturday night.

In addition to the festival activities, attendees will also get a chance to see the Scott County Museum, the U.S.S. Tennessee Museum and the new Discovery Center, which are all located on the campus of Scott High School.

Admission to the festival is free.