A Celebration of Southern Appalachian Culture
September 15-16, 2012
Saturday, 11am - 5pm & Sunday, 11am - 5pm
Folk Art Center, Milepost 382, Blue Ridge Parkway, Asheville, NC
 The Annual Heritage Weekend will be held at the Folk Art Center on the Blue Ridge Parkway in Asheville. This free festival sponsored by the Southern Highland Craft Guild features traditional music, dancing and heritage craft demonstrations. A highlight of the weekend is the World Gee Haw Whimmy Diddle Competition on Saturday, 2:00-3:00pm.
Learn from area experts about beekeeping, canning and preserving, coopering, heritage toy making, blacksmithing, natural dyeing, spinning, quilting, whittling, basket weaving and folk pottery. Enjoy live music, and cloggers will thrill the audience with traditional mountain dancing.
The Blue Ridge Parkway’s Folk Art Center is the ideal place for Heritage Weekend with free parking, access to hiking trails and grassy areas for a picnic. Spend an early autumn weekend in WNC honoring and learning about crafts of yesteryear while enjoying the beauty of the region. For more information, including a list of participating craftspeople and musicians, call 828-298-7928 or visit www.craftguild.org.
 SAMPLING OF HERITAGE WEEKEND DEMONSTRATORS:
- Bill Henry, whittling
- Hugh Bailey, folk pottery
- Lyle Wheeler, heritage toy and furniture making
- Homer Sales, rifles
- Tom Brown, apples
- Leniavell Trivette, heritage toys and fiber art
- Jan Morris, children’s activities
- Sandra Rowland, children’s activities
- Cassie Dickson, natural dyeing
- Barbara Miller, weaving
- Will Hines, coopering
- Don Duncan, wood carving and treenware
- Rodney Hopkins, carving
- Bill Alexander, bark baskets
- David Crandall, wood boxes
- Friendswood Brooms
- David Moore, bark birdhouses
- Mary Nichols, spinning
- Alwin Wagener, blacksmithing
- Peggy Whitted, weaving
- Dede Styles, natural dyeing, spinning
- Nora Mosrie, children’s activities
- Anthony Cole, sheep shearing
- Connie Brown, beekeeping
- NC Co-op Ext., canning and preserving
The Southern Highland Craft Guild is a non-profit, educational organization established in 1930 to bring together the crafts and craftspeople of the Southern Highlands for the benefit of shared resources, education, marketing and conservation. The Southern Highland Craft Guild is authorized to provide services at the Blue Ridge Parkway’s Folk Art Center under the authority of a cooperative agreement with the National Park Service, Department of the Interior. The Folk Art Center is located at Milepost 382 of the Blue Ridge Parkway, just north of the Hwy 70 entrance in east Asheville, NC.
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