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The Munson Heritage Festival 2024 will take place 9 a.m. until 4 p.m., Sat., Oct. 12 and Sun., Oct. 13 at scenic Krul Lake, located on Krul Lake Road in Blackwater River State Forest. The festival is part of the 2024 Beaches to Woodlands Tour, which celebrates Santa Rosa County’s arts & culture, history and nature-based venues.
Krul Lake is a roughly 22-mile trip north of Milton but worth every mile. The event features vendors, live entertainment, historical demonstrations, an antique tractor show, food and more! It’s the perfect place to find fall decor or start your Christmas shopping early. Additionally, there will be kids activities.
Learn about old-time ways through hands-on demonstrations and a Civil War re-enactment camp, plus Native American displays, wood carving, basket weaving, making corn-shuck dolls, dulcimer making, shoe cobbling, cross-cut sawing, old-time circular sawmill operation, turpentining and displays by local museums and more.
Live entertainment lineup includes:
SATURDAY:
- 9 am ROTC to present colors
- 10 am Don Lopex & Friends
- 11 am New River Train
- 12:30 Three Bean Soup
- 2 pm White Sands Panhandle Band
SUNDAY:
- 10 am Church Service
- 11:30 am Art Contest Winner Announcements
- 12:30 Three Bean Soup
- 1:30 White Sands Panhandle Band
Admission is $10 per vehicle. Cash only – no ATM. The venue is handicap accessible. Only certified assistance dogs are allowed within the park. For more info visit https://www.facebook.com/MunsonCommunityHeritageFestival
For a full schedule of events on the 2024 Beaches to Woodlands Tour, visit https://www.getrelaxing.com/get-inspired/beaches-to-woodlands-unleashes-a-medley-of-fall-festivities/
Historian Raymon Melvin of Navarre will display part of his vast turpentine collection
Beautiful Krul Lake provides a stunning backdrop
Bring your chairs and enjoy the bands
See historical displays
Explore the Sweetwater Trail and its suspension bridge
