Annual  Mountain Spirit Heritage Festival

Annual  Mountain Spirit Heritage Festival  to be hosted again July 25-27, 2008 at Rockport State Park. 

"Old Days -- New Ways"

We are celebrating our pioneer and western heritage.  We are inviting vendors to attend and sell items that they make and have a western or pioneer history or heritage.  Things we are looking for are spinners, weavers, quilt makers, saddle makers, artists that paint or create western-themed products, blacksmithing, as well as participants like musicians, scout groups, horse riders, wagon drivers; etc.     

The Festival will include a wagon train that starts Friday morning and comes down Echo Canyon.  Wagon masters will stop the group at historical sites and the Summit County Historic society will inform everyone of the history.  (It is an incredible history with the Pony express, railroad, and pioneer treks through that canyon.)  The wagon train will spend the night in Coalville at the fairgrounds.  Meanwhile, the festival will open on Friday at 10 AM through dusk.  Activities include blue grass music, Contra and oldies dancing, cowboy poetry, artisans explaining and selling their creations; food vendors selling their food.  There will also be antique tractors and farming equipment along with NEW tractors.   

On Saturday, the wagon train will travel to the festival, arriving around noon.  It was awesome seeing them come in to the festival last year.  We had 13 wagons and numerous riders on horseback along for the ride and acting as wranglers.  The music and other activities will continue on Saturday (10:00 AM through dusk).  In addition, we will have a telegraph deciphering display using a real telegraph.  Also there will be old-fashioned farming demonstrations using horse-drawn equipment (mowers, swathers, etc.) and wagon and pulling demonstration for the horses/mules.     

On Sunday, (10:00 AM to 4:00 PM) we are having a gospel program in the church.     

Admission to the festival for the public is $5 a person or $12 a car   

If you would like to be a vendor, if you have farming equipment you would like to exhibit, if you have an activity that you would like to host, or if you want to be a participant, please contact me or visit our website:

www.uintaheadwaters.org/heritage.shtml