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New Deal Festival and Exhibit Opening

WVHC Event

Location/County: Arthurdale, Preston
July 12, 2014

On July 12, from 9:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Arthurdale Heritage will celebrate the opening of its E-2 exhibit, which focuses on one of the community’s original homesteads, at its New Deal Festival. The festivities will also include Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt reenactors, and discussions with some of the children that grew up in Arthurdale as well as a petting zoo, antique car and tractor show, artist demonstrations, living histories, and crafts. For more information visit www.arthurdale.org.

This project is funded in part by a West Virginia Humanities Council grant.