Wednesday, October 9, 2002
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Wednesday, October 9, 2002 |
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Westville offers a working 1850 Harvest Festival By MICHAEL
BOYLAN
There have been a lot of fall festivals around the area over the last few weekends and now Westville, Georgia's working 1850 town, will show visitors how people in the mid 19th century celebrated a harvest festival. In addition to their usual activities such as pottery, candle dipping, wood working, weaving, open hearth cooking, soap making and more, Westville will have an operational animal-powered Cotton Baling Press during the festival. The cotton gin and cotton press complex is possibly the only complete set of antebellum animal-powered cotton devices in the world. Visitors will also get to visit the cane mill where sugar cane will be ground into juices for the syrup making process. Everyone will have an opportunity to taste the homemade syrup on the hearth-cooked biscuits made from scratch at the Patterson-Marrett Farm House. The month-long festival will also feature lots of music and dance. Linda Franklin and Janette Jasper will play the hammered dulcimer and guitar Oct. 10-13, while Steve Hickma will play the fiddle and teach dances Oct. 15-19. The Double Eagle Theatre Orchestra will perform on Saturday, Oct. 19 and Pat Bryant will play the dulcimer along with several other instruments on Sunday, Oct. 20. Gwen Caeli will play the dulcimer the week of Oct. 22. The music festival will come to an end from Oct. 29-Nov. 10 with the duo of Jamie Gans and Tamara Lowenthal, better known as "Fiddle and Feet." Westville is open every day except Mondays. Their hours of operation are 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Tuesday-Saturday and 1-5 p.m. on Sundays. Admission is $4 for students and $10 for adults. Phone 1-888-733-1850 or visit www.westville.org. |
