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Trail's End Festival...
by Outspoken on Fri Jul 25, 2008 7:00 pm
It's almost time for the first annual Trail's End Festival in Millinocket. Planning a "Stay-cation" for the end of the hiking season? Well, here's one that should suit you just fine. It runs through the weekend of Friday and Saturday, September 13th & 14th with many things that should satisfy anyone's need to end the season the "right way".
The Trail's End Festival is starting to snap together and has been in the planning stages since early December of 2007. We are listed in the "Thru Hikers Guide" as the last festival this season and the International Appalachian Trail Organization is holding their annual meeting during that weekend of the festival. This will bring together about 60 people from Greenland, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Quebec, and Maine.
We have constant music planned at the Millinocket bandstand and many food vendors, as well as an offering of the best from each of the local restaurants in an event called "Local Flavor". There will be a juried art and craft show with cash prizes and a horseshoe tournament on Saturday with cash prizes and trophies.
'Teddy Roosevelt', impersonated by Joe Weigand, will visit the festival for a
touch of history. Mark Miller and the Boomer Blues Band will play throughout
the day Saturday.
There will be movies at the Black Fly Theater and many other activities for the kids along the waterfront at Millinocket Stream. The local churches in the area are on deck to provide breakfasts and suppers, with many food vendors providing for the rest of the time.
There are trail projects in the works for those wishing to give back to the trails we love so much and even camping for "walk-in" hikers by the stream. There will be book signings by authors who have written about the area. They will include Brian Huey who has recently released a thriller named "Perpetual" whose protagonists are Millinocket natives and also a book about hiking the Appalachian Trail by Bangor Daily News writer Brad Wayne Viles.
Sponsored by the Katahdin Area Chamber of Commerce and the Katahdin Regional Development Corporation, we have just this week been granted a large sponsorship by the Quimby Family Foundation. This means we are still adding to the entertainment aspect of the festival. (I will be updating as events and/or performers are added. )We have a good team and a very supportive town here so everyone come! It's going to be a ball.
You can go to the Chamber website link below for further information or to download the appropriate forms if you are an interested artist, retail vendor, hiker, or food vendor. The cut-off date for submission of forms is August 23, 2008.
http://www.katahdinmaine.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=56&Itemid=113
The Trail's End Festival is starting to snap together and has been in the planning stages since early December of 2007. We are listed in the "Thru Hikers Guide" as the last festival this season and the International Appalachian Trail Organization is holding their annual meeting during that weekend of the festival. This will bring together about 60 people from Greenland, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Quebec, and Maine.
We have constant music planned at the Millinocket bandstand and many food vendors, as well as an offering of the best from each of the local restaurants in an event called "Local Flavor". There will be a juried art and craft show with cash prizes and a horseshoe tournament on Saturday with cash prizes and trophies.
'Teddy Roosevelt', impersonated by Joe Weigand, will visit the festival for a
touch of history. Mark Miller and the Boomer Blues Band will play throughout
the day Saturday.
There will be movies at the Black Fly Theater and many other activities for the kids along the waterfront at Millinocket Stream. The local churches in the area are on deck to provide breakfasts and suppers, with many food vendors providing for the rest of the time.
There are trail projects in the works for those wishing to give back to the trails we love so much and even camping for "walk-in" hikers by the stream. There will be book signings by authors who have written about the area. They will include Brian Huey who has recently released a thriller named "Perpetual" whose protagonists are Millinocket natives and also a book about hiking the Appalachian Trail by Bangor Daily News writer Brad Wayne Viles.
Sponsored by the Katahdin Area Chamber of Commerce and the Katahdin Regional Development Corporation, we have just this week been granted a large sponsorship by the Quimby Family Foundation. This means we are still adding to the entertainment aspect of the festival. (I will be updating as events and/or performers are added.
)We have a good team and a very supportive town here so everyone come! It's going to be a ball.You can go to the Chamber website link below for further information or to download the appropriate forms if you are an interested artist, retail vendor, hiker, or food vendor. The cut-off date for submission of forms is August 23, 2008.
http://www.katahdinmaine.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=56&Itemid=113
"Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything."
Plato (427-347 BC)
Plato (427-347 BC)
