August 4
& 5
WWI Cemetery Tour, “Legacy” Author Meet & Greet, “Angel
Station” Anniversary, will Highlight 49th Annual Heritage Days
Festival
If you come to Heritage Days in Angelica for the focus on local history, you’re sure to
enjoy this year’s program. The weekend commemorates the 100th
anniversary of the November 11, 1918 armistice that ended the First World War
with a WWI tour of Until the Day Dawn Cemetery. Seven veterans of that conflict
will “come to life” to tell their stories. Local reenactors will portray these
veterans, talking in turn about their wartime experiences as the tour group
moves from one gravesite to the next.
Among the seven is Robert
Hill, who will act as tour guide. Hill was killed in action in France on
Oct. 20, 1918, and is buried in the American Military Cemetery in that
country. The Hill-Warner American Legion
Post 414 is named in his honor (along with Robert Warner from World War II).
The World War I
Cemetery Tour will be offered twice on Saturday, at 12:30 p.m. and 2:30 p.m.,
and on Sunday at 1:30 p.m. Tour tickets are $5.00 and will be available at the
Booster Citizens tent in Park Circle. Tractor-drawn wagon transportation will
be provided from the park to the cemetery.
Also in the Heritage Days spotlight will be Julie Rowe Cooke, author of Legacy:
My Ancestors and a Town Called Angelica. The 195-page soft-cover book,
newly-published by the Booster Citizens under the Heritage Days Press imprint, “is
much more than a rich family history. It is a mini-history of railroading in
the Allegany County, NY area, a guidebook for budding genealogists, and a love
letter to the Town of Angelica and its residents, both past and present.” Cooke
will speak about her work at 11:00 a.m. Saturday in the Methodist Church, on
the circle, and then will sign copies at the Boosters tent, where the book will
be for sale for $15.
For sale too, at $15, will be a 20th
anniversary poster of the Angel Station postal cancellation. The work of local
artist Pat Kaake, the cancellation
has been offered for Christmas card mailings at the Angelica Post Office every
December since 1997.
And on Saturday as well, at 1:30 p.m. in the First
Baptist Church, Pastor David Ford
will give a talk, “My Kenyan Adventure”, about his recent missionary trip to that
African country.
Along with the local history emphasis, the Heritage Days
festival will feature a full lineup of live music in the Park Circle bandstand;
a large art-craft-antique market; croquet tournament on the unique “roque”
court; Colonial Rooms museum open at Angelica Free Library; wagon rides through
the Historic District; theme basket auction; and plenty of good food, including
a Sunday chicken barbecue.
Heritage Days is
sponsored by the Angelica Booster Citizens. For more information on the August
4 & 5 event (including market vendor participation), email angelicaboosters@gmail.com or call
585-466-7930; visit angelicaboosters.com, or the Booster Citizens on
Facebook.
Angelica Heritage Days 2018 Schedule
of Events
Saturday, August 4
Saturday, August 4
7:00 a.m. Coffee
& doughnuts, Booster tent
9:00 a.m. Market
opens
10:00 a.m. Refreshment
stand, Booster tent
11:00 a.m. Sausage
stand, Legion lawn
11:00 a.m. Croquet
semifinal match
11:00 a.m. Salute
to Salty Austin, bandstand
11:00 a.m. “Legacy”
author, Methodist Church
11:00 a.m. Colonial
Rooms, Library - 3 p.m.
12:00 Noon Triple
Play, bandstand
12:30 p.m. WWI
Cemetery Tour
1:30 p.m. “My Kenyan
Adventure”, Baptist Church
2:00 p.m. Warren
Paul, bandstand
2:00 p.m. Croquet
semifinal match
2:30 p.m. WWI
Cemetery Tour
3:00 p.m. Off
the Wagon, bandstand
5:00 p.m. Market
closes
5:00 p.m. Tent
Event, American Hotel - 1 a.m.
Sunday, August
5
7:00 a.m. Coffee
& doughnuts, Booster tent
9:00 a.m. Market
opens
10:00 a.m. Refreshment
stand, Booster tent
10:00 a.m. Homecoming
Svc., Methodist lawn
12:00 Noon Chicken
BBQ, Methodist Church
12:00 Noon Michael
Scott Smith, bandstand
1:00 p.m. Colonial
Rooms,, Library - 4 p.m.
1:00 p.m. Croquet
championship match
1:30 p.m. WWI
Cemetery Tour
2:00 p.m. Creek
Bend, bandstand
4:30 p.m. Theme
basket drawings
5:00 p.m. Market
closes
THANKS TO OUR SPONSORS
Angelica
Enterprises Inc. / Angelica Spring Company
Bainbridge
Family Farm / Brown & Powers Funeral Home
Community Bank
/ East Wind Landscape Nursery
Hasper &
Dye Inc.-Lawrence Dye Inc. / Hill-Warner Post 414
Mascho
Homestead Farm / New York Land-Home Quest
Otis Eastern
Service / Phillips Angelica Forest Products
Richardson
& Stout / Steuben Trust Company
Stoney’s
Storage