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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 

Contact: Tammy Miller, Columbia Parks and Recreation - (573) 874-7465

28th annual Heritage Festival & Craft Show planned

COLUMBIA, MO (August 8, 2005) -- History will come alive once again
when Columbia Parks and Recreation sponsors the 28th annual Heritage
Festival and Craft Show this fall. The two-day event will be held from
10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sept. 17-18 at historic Nifong Park. 

Visitors will be able to experience life as it was in the 19th century
with a wide variety of activities. Features of the Heritage Festival
will include a replica Lewis and Clark camp, an 1859 town with more than
30 tents of shopkeepers, American Indian drumming and dancing, and
artisans and tradesmen dressed in 19th century attire demonstrating
their trades and selling their wares. 

A wide range of entertainment will be featured on three stages,
including music, dancing and storytelling. Featured entertainers include
the Lakota pow wow dancers from South Dakota, Chris Camp - the world
champion whip cracker, Paul & Win Grace, Ironweed Bluegrass Band, Green
Corn Band, Uncle Charlotte & the Swamp Rabbits, Cowboy Poets, Kunami -
African dancing and storytelling, a fiddlers' competition on Saturday
afternoon, Professor Farquar's Great American Medicine Show, blues and
jazz and many local favorites. 

Visitors can pick up some early holiday gifts in the large
contemporary, handmade craft area. Saturday evening ghost stories from 8
p.m. to 9:30 p.m. will offer thrills. Children will enjoy numerous
activities in the Fun for Young'uns Area and hayrides are fun for the
entire family. Tour the Historic Maplewood Home and the Walter's Boone
County Historical Museum. Great food and a beautiful park setting will
make the Heritage Festival a family tradition.

The Heritage Festival is coordinated and sponsored by Columbia Parks
and Recreation and co-sponsored by ABC-17, Boone County Historical
Society, Columbia Convention & Visitors Bureau Tourism Development Fund,
Columbia Daily Tribune, Courtyard by Marriott, Metro Rotary Club &
Missouri River Community Network.

Nifong Park is located at the AC exit in Columbia off of Highway 63
south. For more information, call 573-874-7460 or visit
www.GoColumbiaMo.com, (Enter GoWord: GoHeritageFestival).

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