[Press Release] : 29th Annual Heritage Festival & Craft Show planned

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 

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

29th Annual Heritage Festival & Craft Show planned

COLUMBIA, MO (August 30, 2006) -- Listen, learn and see history as it
comes alive when Columbia Parks and Recreation sponsors the 29th Annual
Heritage Festival and Craft Show. The two-day event will be held from 10
a.m. to 5 p.m. on Sept. 16-17 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 replica Lewis and Clark and cowboy camps, an 1859 town with
more than 30 tents of shopkeepers, American Indian drumming and dancing,
and artisans and tradesmen dressed in period attire demonstrating their
trades and selling their wares. 

A wide range of entertainment will be featured on three stages,
including music, dancing and storytelling. New entertainers this year
are the Thunderheart Singers and Dancers; Bob Hamm, world champion gun
spinner; Jenna Crispin, Branson entertainer; and the National Marionette
Company of Chicago. Other featured entertainers include Ironweed
Bluegrass Band, Kelly Jones and the Swamp Rabbits, Melissa Purvis -
Celtic harpist, Afi Ama - African dancing and storytelling, cowboy
poets, a fiddlers’ competition on Saturday afternoon, soul, big band,
jazz, roots and many local bands. 

Visitors can pick up some early holiday gifts in the large
contemporary, handmade craft area. Saturday evening ghost stories from 8
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, as well as tours of 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, Hampton Inn, Metro Rotary Club & Missouri River
Communities Network.

Nifong Park is located at the AC exit in Columbia off of Highway 63
south. Visitors can either park on-site or shuttle from the Ice Chalet
Antique Mall. For more information, call 573-874-7460 or visit
www.GoColumbiaMo.com, (Enter GoWord: GoHeritageFestival). 

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