Southwest Florida Heritage Festival

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Who
will tell the Old, Old Story?

Enjoy
a fun day with the family with many activities and a peaceful
environment.

Old
Miakka Church site:

Cemetery
tours –view the
resting places of 2 Confederate veterans, and veterans of other
combats. Learn more about some of the early families. Hear about
some of the interesting epitaphs: “As you are now, so once was I.
As I am now, so you shall be. Prepare for death and follow me.”
“Gone from our home, but not from our hearts…”

Brush
Arbor Revival - A
“Brush Arbor Days Meeting” was normally non-denominational held
in a makeshift shelter. Building the shelter was half the fellowship
of it all. Why all this reminiscing you ask? In that crude little
brush arbor, a little boy bowed his knee and came face to face with
the living God. Hear the “old time preacher under the Brush Arbor.

Church
Wedding –
Remember what it was like to take those vows and to renew your own in
our 127 year old sanctuary with the music of “O promise me that
someday you and I will take our love together to some sky…”
echoing in your ears. Find out “How to Keep a Good Husband” and
what 1 Corinthians 13 says about love – a verb, “It always
protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never
fails.” This is not a Hollywood emotion! View typical items that
might have been wedding gifts in the Fellowship Hall.

Sunday
School Presentation
in the Brush Arbor - recitations by Sunday School youth dressed in
old time clothes. Learn why the Church was and is important in the
children’s lives.

Children’s
Games and Crafts
(donation for materials, please) - 3 legged race, checkers, tug of
war, horse shoes, pin the badge on the sheriff and more. Make a
wooden boat, a cup and ball game, a twirling cowboy rope, leather
work and more. Participate in making the BEST ice cream and make
butter. Listen to storytelling!

Farmers’
Market and many
crafts to look at and buy, including quilting, hand made cards and
crafts, rustic furniture, goat milk soap, and rustic signs.

Music
– different groups all during the day with gospel, bluegrass and
original songs. Come here the hammered dulcimers!

Food
– a Saturday
“Chicken Sunday Dinner”, cracker food – including swamp
cabbage, BBQ, funnel cakes, campfire cooking and hot dogs.

Then
mosey on further south to the Crowley Museum & Nature Center Site
for a Cowboy shootout, Civil War battles, working cowboys, pioneer
handcrafts, a cattle round-up and many more re-enactments, pioneer
buildings, cracker food, and more live music.