LOCAL INTEREST::
Events:
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Wild Azalea Festival
* Little Miss Azalea Contest Agreement (PDF)
* Food Vendor form HERE (PDF)
* Craft Vendor form HERE (PDF)
* Suwannee Valley Times news item
* North Florida Now
For more information call: 386.397.2310 - Email: specialeventsws@gmail.com
April 11 |
Hundreds enjoyed Stephen Foster’s 25th Annual Antique Tractor and Engine Show in White Springs, April 4, 5 and 6. Saturday’s weather was especially beautiful and enticed large crowds to enjoy and learn about 200 years of history as exhibitors displayed antique tractors, farm implements and tools from a bygone era..
Tel: 386.397.2733
Woodpecker Mud Bog April 20-21, July 18-19, August 8-9 |
Mud truck drivers and students, whskey moonshine string band, test and tune and dirt drags..
SE 91ST Terrace, White Springs, Florida 32096
Tel: (386) 292-4720
May
Florida Folk Festival
A three-day celebration of folk songs, music, dances, legends, crafts and other forms of traditional expression which reflect the folklife of Florida. Co-sponsored by the Department of State.
Advance tickets call 1.877.635.3655
October
Annual Jeanie Auditions and Ball
A two-day event cosponsored with the Florida Federation of Music Clubs to select outstanding Florida female music students who compete for a total of $4,500 in music scholarship.
Tel: 386.397.2733
Time: Ball is held Friday at 8:30 p.m.
Public auditions Saturday at 10:00 a.m.
Suwannee River Quilt Show and Sale
Quilters from around the southeastern United States gathers to display their magnificent quilts. Quilt mall, demonstrations many other features. Sponsored by the Stephen Foster Citizen Support Organization and local quilters guilds.
Tel: 386.397.7009 for entry forms. Admission is $3.00 per person.
Time: 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.
November
Rural Folklife Days
Featuring Florida's rural past with farm traditions that remain part of family and community life. Quilting, cane grinding, syrup making, lye soap making, hand-made cow whips
Time: 9:00 a.m. - 2:30 p.m.
November 30, 2012
Christmas Festival of Lights
A one-day celebration of the holiday season. Features decorations, music and much more. Highlight is a parade down Main Street, with the tree and park lighting for the season. Donations of canned goods and small toys accepted as admission for the program to be distributed to needy families.
Tel: 386.397.2733 - Email: specialeventsws@gmail.com
Time: 5:00 p.m. - 9 p.m
July - August
Woodpecker Mud Bog in White Springs has improved roads and welcomes mud trucks, ATVs and UTVs (no motorcycles) for their July and August events. Gates open on Friday, at 5:30 p.m. for overnight campers. Kids 10-and-under get in free! All others pay only $15 per day or $20 for the weekend. Call Kandi at (386) 867-1601 for more information.
AREA ACTIVITIES:
Old Jail Historical Museum
Jasper, Florida Haunted Old Jail Tours – 386-792-2725
Blackberry Festival
Jasper, Florida
386-397-1212
Blackberry Ball
386 397-1212
Hamilton County Rodeo
(text - pix - link)
Woodpecker Mud Bog
386 292-4720
White Springs Historic Waling Tour (Pick up brochure at Town Hall or at the Tourism Center.)
Withlacoochee Trail Ride –
New Year’s Eve Hosted by
McCulley Farms
386-938-3011
AZALEA FestivalMarch
Enjoy music, arts & crafts, children's activity area, Suwannee River Duck Race, Wagon Rides and Little Miss Wild Azalea Contest.
For more information call: 386.397.2310
Email: specialeventsws@gmail.com
FlA Folk FestivalMay
A three-day celebration of folk songs, music, dances, legends, crafts and other forms of traditional expression which reflect the folklife of Florida. Co-sponsored by the Department of State. Advance tickets call 1.877.635.3655
Quilt showOctober
More than 200 quilts will be shown during the three-day show
Folk Life DaysNovember
Rural Folklife days celebrates farm and household traditions that remain a part of family and community life, especially here in North Central Florida. Local residents demonstrate how to preserve fruits and vegetables with home canning, how to plait a cow whip by hand and how to make a hand sewn quilt.
