The Pages & Places Book Festival is proud to present the Family Street Fair, featuring a Civil War Era theme and including FREE fun and educational activities for children of all ages and the whole family. See below or click here for the Family Street Fair Flyer. Or RSVP to our event invitation on the Pages & Places Facebook page.
Partners include the Scranton Cultural Center, Lackawanna County Library System and Everhart Museum of Natural History, Science & Art as well as student volunteers from Keystone College and The University of Scranton. Thank you!
Saturday, October 1, 2011
Time: 10:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Where: Courthouse Square | 500 block of Spruce Street, downtown Scranton
Activities
Face painting, juggling, live music, costuming- Photo booth, sidewalk chalk art, bubble blowers
- Story corner with readings & activities
- Featured children’s authors
- Interactive Workshops: History challenge, puppet making, crafts and more!
Main Stage Schedule: All events are at the fountain in the Piazza del Arte on Courthouse Square
- 10:00am: Tonya Hegamin, author of Most Loved in all the World: a Story of Freedom
- 10:30am: Michael Hawver, guitarist (CD: Bellum, Songs of the American Civil War)
- 11:00am: Linda Oatman High, author of The Cemetery Keepers of Gettysburg
- 11:30am: The Drunkenmillers (Musicians)
- 12:00pm: Second Annual Poetry Contest Award Ceremony
- 12:30: Ann Griffith, Civil War Storyteller
- 1:00pm: Marty Crisp, author of Private Captain, A Story of Gettysburg
- 1:20pm: Top Hats and Lace (Civil War Dance Group)
- 2:00pm: The Drunkenmillers (Musicians)
- 2:30pm: Civil War Fashions with Bridget Conlogue
