Annual Appalachian Fest Successful
Sidra Bing
Issue date: 9/30/09 Section: The Pulse
This past weekend was full of fun, food and plenty of entertainment right here at Frostburg State University. Like every year, the Appalachian festival celebrates the Allegany mountain landscape and culture with food, music and artistic entertainment.
The festival started on the 18th of Friday with seminar called Appalachia: People and Place. This seminar, held in the Lane Center in Room 201, presented a variety of topics that dealt with the population of our bobcats to the history of our environment. Students and faculty took on work for this, putting their time and effort in the sessions.
The festival also held a Clogging and Flat Footing Workshop, presented by the RockCandy Cloggers. From beginners to advanced, people learned something new or brushed up on something old with the help of these Cloggers, Candy Ranlet and Rock Howland. The RockCandy Cloggers were also accompanied with music by Jason Twigg and Fritz Kessler, who have been playing old- time fiddle music together since 2006.
The evening was capped off with the Appalachian Film Festival. The Palace Theater showed a 1976 Academy Award documentary, Harlan County, about the lives of miners that dramatized the good and impoverished times they experienced, started by the strike on standard union contract. As the day ended, the educational and enlightening information built many up for what was to come on Saturday, and the Frostburg community showed their support and interest in the activities that flooded the campus.
Musical performers took the stage from the morning to mid afternoon, filling the campus with different genres like Coal n' folk music, played by Jay Smar, or old-time fiddle by Rachel Eddy, or even Bluegrass played by Black Diamond, just to name a few. Story- Tellers such as Susanna Holstein and Ellouise Schoettler were also among the entertainment, telling tales with historical and political research and family stories that introduced puppets for the little ones.
In the midst of all this entertainment, food was available to satisfy people's cravings and hunger. Hot dog stands, barbeque and soda stands filled their stomachs and gave people more energy to enjoy the rest of the afternoon's activities.
After cravings were satisfied, activities like arts and crafts which held pottery, rug hooking and jewelry were being enjoyed. Basket making and soap making let people get creative with a small fee of $5. With the basket weaving, students learned the over- under pattern of weaving baskets, and soap making let people see the old fashioned way of making soap with lard, vegetable oil, coconut oil, goat's milk and lye.
Students of Frostburg State University and the community supported and took pleasure in the Appalachian Festival of 2009, taking pleasure in one of the biggest events of the year.
The festival started on the 18th of Friday with seminar called Appalachia: People and Place. This seminar, held in the Lane Center in Room 201, presented a variety of topics that dealt with the population of our bobcats to the history of our environment. Students and faculty took on work for this, putting their time and effort in the sessions.
The festival also held a Clogging and Flat Footing Workshop, presented by the RockCandy Cloggers. From beginners to advanced, people learned something new or brushed up on something old with the help of these Cloggers, Candy Ranlet and Rock Howland. The RockCandy Cloggers were also accompanied with music by Jason Twigg and Fritz Kessler, who have been playing old- time fiddle music together since 2006.
The evening was capped off with the Appalachian Film Festival. The Palace Theater showed a 1976 Academy Award documentary, Harlan County, about the lives of miners that dramatized the good and impoverished times they experienced, started by the strike on standard union contract. As the day ended, the educational and enlightening information built many up for what was to come on Saturday, and the Frostburg community showed their support and interest in the activities that flooded the campus.
Musical performers took the stage from the morning to mid afternoon, filling the campus with different genres like Coal n' folk music, played by Jay Smar, or old-time fiddle by Rachel Eddy, or even Bluegrass played by Black Diamond, just to name a few. Story- Tellers such as Susanna Holstein and Ellouise Schoettler were also among the entertainment, telling tales with historical and political research and family stories that introduced puppets for the little ones.
In the midst of all this entertainment, food was available to satisfy people's cravings and hunger. Hot dog stands, barbeque and soda stands filled their stomachs and gave people more energy to enjoy the rest of the afternoon's activities.
After cravings were satisfied, activities like arts and crafts which held pottery, rug hooking and jewelry were being enjoyed. Basket making and soap making let people get creative with a small fee of $5. With the basket weaving, students learned the over- under pattern of weaving baskets, and soap making let people see the old fashioned way of making soap with lard, vegetable oil, coconut oil, goat's milk and lye.
Students of Frostburg State University and the community supported and took pleasure in the Appalachian Festival of 2009, taking pleasure in one of the biggest events of the year.
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