Event Details
Sunday, Nov 13, 2011
Ocali Country Days
Time: 9:00 am til 4:00 pm
Location: Silver River Museum & Environmental Education Center Ocala, Florida
Description: Explore the Florida frontier and meet characters from the past at the 2010 Ocali Country Days festival.
This popular annual festival features Florida history, folk art and food. Experience old time music, storytellers and meet historical demonstrators portraying life in Marion County during the 1800s. Learn about traditional crafts such as log cabin building, sugarcane syrup making, blacksmithing, quilting, spinning, weaving, woodworking, and more. Vendors will also offer unique crafts and food for sale.
While here, visit the Silver River Museum, ride our tram through the State Park, tour various encampments to meet trappers, soldiers and homesteaders, send a telegram at an authentic telegraph station, mine for fossils and gemstones or meet Seminole tribal members to learn about Native American culture in Florida. All proceeds from the festival support the educational programs at the Silver River Museum.
The Silver River Museum is located within the Silver River State Park near Silver Springs. Enter the park from Baseline Road (CR 35) one mile south of SR 40. Festival admission is $5 per person with children age six and under admitted free. Current US military perso
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