Heritage Festival under way

Published 12:00 am Wednesday, May 3, 2000

L’Observateur / May 3, 2000

DESTREHAN – Destrehan Plantation is hosting two major events, each reflecting on historical events, crafts and heritage.

Today and tomorrow the second annual Heritage Festival is planned, from 9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Both days. Admission is $1 for students and $2 foradults.

The purpose of the festival is to provide folklife demonstrations, visual art exhibits, creative dramatic and musical performances, all to re-create plantation life during the colonial and early statehood days of Louisiana.

Demonstrations of a smokehouse, candlemaking, weaving, spinning and quilting, marzipan, textile dying, blacksmithing, slave and gospel songs, dancing, dramatics, etiquette, toys of the early 1800s, costuming, boussillege, moss-mattress making and file making.

All activities will take place either in the Mule Barn behind the main house or under the oak trees.

This weekend, May 6-7, Time Passages – a multi-period historical encampment, is planned from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.Visitors will see living history demonstrations from a variety of time periods, including Romans, Napoleonic, U.S. Civil War, World War II and more.Admission is $8 for adults, $4 for teen-agers and $2 for children ages 6-12.

The admission fee also includes a tour of the main house.

For more information on either event, call 764-9315 or 524-5522.

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