The Cross Creek Volunteer Fire Department Presents
The 1st Annual
Cross Creek Festival
Saturday, November 18 *9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

*To celebrate their “Old Florida” traditions and support their Volunteer Fire Department, the residents of the Cross Creek area will welcome the public to the 1st*Annual Cross Creek Festival.
*The Festival, to be held at the County Park next to the M.K. Rawlings Historic State Park, will showcase authentic homemade food and the region’s finest art, crafts, and entertainment.
*Famous for their “firehouse comfort food,” local cooks will prepare homemade meals, desserts, and local delicacies, such as gator tail and swamp cabbage. The old-fashioned quilt raffle, cake walk, target shooting and children’s activities of years past will be joined by new adventures in nature, including scenic boat rides and a bait-fishing tournament.
*Cross Creek and the surrounding towns are home to some of the region’s best artists, entertainers and handcrafters. Throughout the day, musicians such as Dale Crider, The Staley Family, and Sweetwater Branch will share the stage with Cross Creek native storyteller J.T. Glisson, the Cross Creek Cloggers, Rawlings impersonator Betty Jean Steinshouer, and young storytellers from the area.
*The area around Orange and Lochloosa Lakes has always attracted artists to its natural beauty and unpretentious ways. Cross Creek painter Kate Barnes will host top-name artists in the “Creek Reflections Gallery” under a large oak tree at the festival. Here, paintings, sculpture, and handcrafted furniture in the “Old Florida” style will be displayed and sold.
*Also under the oaks, early holiday shoppers will find a wide variety of unique, locally handcrafted items. In addition to the fine needlework Cross Creek women are known for, there will be mosaic pieces, wrought iron work, photography, woodworking, tin art, whimsical outdoor chandeliers, deer feeders, and every kind of ingeniously crafted item for the home and garden.
*For the first time, the public will be able to visit Cross Creek, not as a museum of bygone days, but as a living community, carrying on the best traditions from the past to provide for the needs of the future.

Contact: Fire Department 352 466-3353