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Women’s Work Festival This Weekend In The Great Smokies
Editor's Note: This news item was retrieved and first published through The Daily Times' website.
Great Smoky Mountains National Park will host the annual Women’s Work Festival at the Mountain Farm Museum near the Oconaluftee Visitor Center June 15. The festival honors the vast contributions made by the women of Southern Appalachia. Park staff and volunteers will showcase mountain life and customs that women practiced to care for their families in the late 19th and early 20th century.
According to The Daily Times staff, all activities are free to the public. As part of the celebration, demonstrations among the historic buildings will include hearth cooking, soap making, cornshuck crafts and use of plants for home remedies. Exhibits of artifacts and historic photographs will also provide a glimpse into the many and varied roles of rural women. In addition, music jam sessions are held every first and third Saturday of the month from May through October on the porch of the Visitor Center from 1-3 p.m.
The Mountain Farm Museum is located on Newfound Gap Road adjacent to the Oconaluftee Visitor Center, two miles north of Cherokee, North Carolina. For more information call the visitor center at 828-497-1904.