The 29th annual Great Trail Festival will be held in Malvern Aug. 28-29 and Sept. 4-6, 10 a.m.- 5 p.m.
The Great Trail Festival is a French and Indian War-era re-creation full of old-time entertainment and activities. These include an 18th-century marketplace, a variety of music, buckskin rendezvous, kettle-cooked foods, a buffalo herd and more.
The marketplace will offer leatherwork, hand-wrought pottery, fragrant herbals and flowers, folk art, quilts, handmade soap, baskets, candles, instruments and more.
Musical entertainment will include traditional and Appalachian musicians. Scottish pipers, show fiddlers, clog dancers and folk musicians will perform throughout the weekend.
Kettle-cooked foods will include thick ham and bean soup, johnnycake, buffalo burgers, Indian fry bread, hot apple dumplings, funnel cakes, buffalo trail bologna, kettle corn, roasted almonds, rolls, ice cream and others.
Each weekend, this event will be held at the festival grounds on state Route 43 in Malvern, 18 miles southeast of Carrollton.
Admission costs adults $6, youth ages 10-18 $4, and children younger than 10 free. Group rates are available and bus tours are welcome.
For more information, contact Barbara Garduno at 330-794-9100.
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