Healing the Earth, Healing Ourselves

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" Healing the Earth, Healing Ourselves "

 

" I WILL NOT BOW DOWN " : one of the great poets of our generation.

http://tappingmyownphone.com

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" Mountain Herb Festival " is back for its third year.

 

Sept. 5-6, 2003.

 

If you enjoy Appalachian settings way back on 3 miles of gravel roads with the

singing creek by your campsite; this is where you need to be. Held on the full

moon at lakefront

 

Please send this to your email list and it would help if this event could be

listed in your newspapers. Thank you.

 

Mountain Tradition Herb Festival Contact Information: Linda Heller 606-672-6444

Email: beyondyonder

Webpage: http://geocities.com/beyondyonderrd/festival

 

Shoal, Kentucky.

 

The unique Mountain Herb Festival is back for its third year. 2003. Come see

what all the talk is about

 

Sept. 5-6, 2003.

 

Alternative healers, environmental lovers of Mother Earth and Appalachian Life

(including American Indian) from all over the country , savor exotic herbal,

vegetarian, and Appalachian food, see, dance, come alive, enjoy stories that

will intrigue you, learn skills of the mountains and listen to music that will

make you reflect on the generations past and to come.

Learn how to make soap, herbal medicine, wine, make a basket, grow and preserve

herbs, grow and use ginseng and other mountain herbs, make solar panels , live

off the grid, living green, research your family genealogy, and much, much,

more. Oh and let's not forget that we have, hands-on children's project in our

" Peppermint Patty " tent.

 

Now that we have whipped up your appetite for your favorite festival cuisine! It

will be hard to decide when your choices include stinging nettle soup,

gingerbread pones, dried apple stack cake, in our Appalachian section and in

black sweet rice pudding with organic pear and wild ginger sauce, fresh apple

cake with geranium leaves, lemon balm cake, and again much, more! Be sure to

stop by and visit our latest additions to the festival. With all these choices

and more you won't go home with an empty stomach.

 

Camping begins Thursday the 4th at 4:00 p.m. Festival hours are 9:00 a.m. to

10:00 p.m. Friday and Saturday.

 

We are in Southeastern Ky., closest town of any size is Hyden.

 

Description: An Herb, Alternative Healing, Environmental, Mother

Earth, Appalachian and Life Giving Health Foods and Arts and Crafts Festival.

 

Mountain Tradition will be bringing together leading herb lovers,environmental

classes and alternative healers from throughout the country and locally to share

with us their knowledge of the Earth, plants and natural healing methods as well

as healing the earth classes.

COST IS $3.00 ADULTS AND $1.00 CHILDREN ENTRANCE FEE. CAMPING IS $10 PER TENT.

Vending will be at lake front and under the full moon. Don't miss it..

 

Mountain Tradition Herb Festival this year will be held at the Buckhorn Lake.

Mountain Tradition is a 3 day camping event, (or come in for the day) on the

Buckhorn Lake.

 

Please bring your own camping supplies. We suggest the following: musical

instruments, tent, bedding, flashlight, natural toiletries that will not harm

the environment, which can be bought from Brammer Gap Soap Kettle, (there are no

showers: we will have the creeks and lake), picnic blankets, please bring life

preservers for your children, towels and swimwear, floor chairs and whatever

else makes you comfy. Make sure that you bring chairs and your own dishes to

wash!! Delicious Appalachian meals and vegetarian meals.

Camp set up begins at 4:00 P.M. on Thursday 4th for vendors and campers. School

buses will be coming all day Friday between 10:00 and 2:00 to see all the herbal

products, demonstrations, and crafts. Vending will be friday and Saturday

between 9:00 am and 10:00 pm. Location: Buckhorn Lake in Shoal, Kentucky

(Southeastern Kentucky) Directions are on the website.

 

Event Contacts:

Linda Heller: 606-672-6444

Email: beyondyonder

Website link for more info:

http://geocities.com/beyondyonderrd/festival

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Please send this letter to all you know and put the Herb Festival in your local

papers and community calendar on tv.

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Here is our Line-up so far:

 

Poet and Musician: (Ron Whitehead)

" I WILL NOT BOW DOWN " : one of the great poets of our generation.

http://tappingmyownphone.com

 

Critically Acclaimed Storyteller.

(Angelyn DeBord) http://geocities.com/mtnstories/

 

Celtic Musician (Margaret Lyle Gravitt)

http://celticlark.com

 

Mountain Ballad Musician. (Sarah Elizabeth) http://sarahelizabethky.com

 

Bluegrass music. (The Wooton Family Fiddlers)

 

Old-Tyme Lye and cold processed soap

workshop. (Brammer Gap Soap Kettle)

 

Magnetic Therapy. (Beth Wofford)

 

Aura Mastery. (Jo Ann Van Horn)

 

Solar Workshop. (Joshua Bills-ASPI)

http://a-spi.org/solar/

 

Growing Eastern Woodland Medicinal

Herbs Herb Walk included with this workshop ( You will be taking dormant roots

for transplanting back home with you)

http://geocities.com/beyondyonderrd

 

Ginseng. (ASPI)

http://a-spi.org

 

Eco-Technology (Living Off the Grid) & Living Green (small steps

anyone can take). (Rev. C. S. Louis)

 

Identifying and Preparing Edible Weeds for Food. (Vickie Shufer)

 

Mushroom Inoculation. (Tim Hensley)

 

Drying and Preserving Herbs. (Peggy Leadingham)

 

Aromatherapy. (Joy Goble)

 

Muscle Response Therapy and Scerology. (Lupe Banuelos)

 

American Indian Culture. (Tom Pearce)

(Billy Brady) and (Mack Chism)

Who Are the Melungeons? (Krista Loyd)

 

Making Organic Wines from fruits and flowers for your medicinal use (House of

Midguard)

 

The Interconnectedness of All Things &

Making Fairy Houses from Recycled materials (Kim Nicholson)

 

Coyotes Corner from Rhode Island will have wonderful products

http://coyotescorner.com

 

NAMA - National American Metis Association (Billy Brady) Billy Brady's

Biography:

http://www.americanmetis.org/BBbio.html

http://www.americanmetis.org/