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Christmas Arts and Crafts Mart
Sat Nov 22, 2008
Time:          9:00 AM
Location:     Wytheville Meeting Center
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Wolf Creek Indian Village Harvest Celebration
Sat Nov 22, 2008
Time:          12:00 PM
Location:     Wolf Creek Indian Village and Museum
Address:     We are located just off Interstate 77 in beautiful, Bland County in the Appalachian Mountains of Virginia. Only 15 minutes from Wytheville, Virginia and Bluefield, West Virginia. Take exit 58 at Bastian Virginia and follow the brown signs to the entrance.
Description: 12:00 PM to 3:00 PM Please call ahead to inquire about inclement weather! 276-688-3438 Wolf Creek Indian Village & Museum is inviting our friends and neighbors to a potluck dinner to be held at the museum in honor of the Harvest Celebration. If you wish you may bring a covered dish made with any of the main ingredients the First People of the America's would have introduced to the settlers to the New World at the first Harvest Celebration. If you don't know what to bring, just bring yourself and enjoy our harvest feast. Come join us and taste the recipes using corn, venison, buffalo or black walnuts just to name a few. Many Indian tribes held six "thanksgiving" or celebration festivals during the year. For the Algonkian year, the beginning was marked by the Maple Dance which gave thanks to the Creator for the maple tree and its syrup. This ceremony occured when the weather was warm enough for the sap to run in the maple trees, sometimes as early as February. Second was the planting feast, where seeds were blessed. The strawberry festival was next, celebrating the first fruits of the season. Summer brought the green corn festival to give thanks for the ripening corn. In late fall, the harvest festival gave thanks for the food they had grown. Mid-winter was the last ceremony of the old year. When the Indians sat down to the "first harvest celebration" what we call today "Thanksgiving" with the Pilgrims, it was really the fifth celebration of the year for them.
Phone:        276-688-3438
Email:         indianvillage@naxs.net
Website:     http://www.indianvillage.org/index.html

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