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Adams County Heritage Festival
From
Cumberland Twp.
When
Sun, Sep 15, 2024 from 12pm to 4pm
Where
545 Long Ln, Gettysburg, PA 17325, USA
➥ Gettysburg Rec Park
Details
The Adams County Heritage Festival celebrates the many ethnic and cultural traditions of Adams County. It includes entertainment and food representing a variety of traditions, craft vendors and demonstrators, children’s activities, and exhibits by local non-profit agencies. It is held on the third Sunday of September from 12 noon to 4 p.m. in the Gettysburg Area Recreation Park. Admission is free. The Festival is jointly sponsored by the Interfaith Center for Peace and Justice and the YWCA Gettysburg & Adams County, and in recent years around 1200 people have attended it in good weather.
Check out our line-up!
Performers
12:00 noon Rodney Yeaple, Bagpiper
Rev. Michael Bright and Rev. Michael Stanley, Opening Invocation
Adams County Commissioners
Mayor Rita Frealing
12:15 Clann Redmond (Irish)
1:10 Gray Cloud Singers and Dancers (Native American)
2:10 Mariachi Esmeralda
3:10 Brownsville Church of God Praise Choir
Food Vendors
Antietam Dairy
Liliana Arias (Colombian) (pavilion)
Bantam Coffee Roasters
Creative Crepes
Dabo Rye (sandwich fusion)
EJ Smokehouse
Eurobites (German)
Alberta Hernandez/Lourdes S. Perez (Mexican)
Mie and Me (Indonesian)
NY Gyro Halal
Rita’s Concessions
7 Spices Doner Kebab
Tata’s Kitchen (Liberian)
Craft Demonstrators
Central PA Guild of Handweavers
Ricky Czar (drums)
Catharine Roth (hand-braided rugs)
Craft Vendors
Blood Rose
GBird Knots
4 Herbs and 7 Spices Ago
Hjemover Goods (also demonstrating rosemaling)
Mula Soap Company
Sarajevo Phoenix
Ten Thousand Villages
Victoria’s Casita Bakery
Cultural Displays
Afghanistan
Bosnia, Palestine
Czech Republic and Slovakia
Iran
Liberia
Mexico
Myanmar
Nicaragua
Scotland and Ireland
Timor Leste
Displays
Strawberry Hill Foundation
Pet Dog Heritage
Gettysburg Fire Department
Nonprofits
Adams County Children’s Advocacy Center
Adams County Democratic Committee
Adams County Historical Society
Adams County Republican Committee
AYUSA
Beth Farnham for Congress
Big Brothers Big Sisters
Center for Families—Respective Solutions Group
Center for Youth and Community Development
Gettysburg Borough Human Relations Commission
Gettysburg Community Theater
Gettysburg Democracy for America
Gettysburg for Gun Sense
Girl Scouts in the Heart of PA
Healthy Adams Bicycle/Pedestrian, Inc.
Hundredfold Farm
Lincoln Fellowship of PA
Mediation Services of Adams County
Members 1st Federal Credit Union
Manos Unidas Hispanic-American Center
Penn State Extension, Master Watershed Steward
SCCAP, Inc.
St. Paul AME Zion Church
Thaddeus Stevens Society
Trinity United Church of Christ
Vida Charter School
YWCA Gettysburg & Adams County
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