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2011 Pioneer Frolic

June 25-26, 2011

Featuring folklore, food, artisans, crafters, reenactors, educational programs, children's programs--FUN!

Come see what historical rural Pennsylvania life was like along Sandy Creek during the 1790's to 1840's.

Special Programs:

Saturday, June 25, 2011
11:00 AM: Community Choir
(Marmee Snyder, Director)
1:00 PM: Mandolin Whiskey
3:00 PM: Wildwood Express

Sunday, June 26, 2011
11:00 AM: Pioneer Church Service
1:00 PM: Neal & Friends
3:00 PM: The Keelings

Admission and parking are free. The park is 5 minutes from I-79. Take Exit 130 (Sandy Lake-Greenville) and travel west on 358 towards Greenvile for about one tenth of a mile. Then bear right onto Carpenter's Corner Road. At the first stop sign, turn right onto Lake Wilhelm Road and follow it to the marina entrance.

 

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Pioneer Frolic

spinner at Pioneer FrolicMaurice K. Goddard State Park and Friends of Goddard will co-sponsor the Pioneer Frolic Saturday, June 25, 2011, from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm and Sunday, June 26, 2011, from 11:00 am to 5 pm. The event will be held in the marina picnic area of Goddard State Park at 540 Lake Wilhelm Road, Sandy Lake, PA (five miles from I-79, exit 130).

The Frolic highlights life along the Sandy Creek Valley during the period of 1750 to 1840 and will feature a re-enactor encampment, demonstrations of colonial crafts, free wagon rides and musical entertainment. All items for sale must be hand crafted, and artisans are encouraged to demonstrate their specialty. Costumes from pre 1840 are preferred.

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The reservation fee of $25.00---for a space 14' wide by 18' deep--is due by June 1, 2011. The frolic is an outdoor event with no electricity, and vendors must provide their own shelters or canopies. Checks should be made payable to tanning buckskin‘PPFF--Friends of Goddard’. All vendors are required to have a PA User Tax number/license, which must be provided upon request. Please send a business card or sample print for your business to be placed in our show flier. For reservations received after June 1st, the vendor's name will not be published in the flier, nor will he/she be guaranteed a space.

For more information contact the Friends of Goddard, c/o Goddard State Park, 684 Lake Wilhelm Road, Sandy Lake, PA 16145 or call the park office at 724-253-4833. You can also send click on e-mail to send an e-mail with FROLIC in the subject line.

Crafters interested in reserving a space at the Frolic may click on

Reservation

to bring up a mail-in form that also lists the rules and regulations for vendors. We hope you will join us.

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