LUCAS — Visitors of Malabar Farm will have the chance to travel back in time during the annual Ohio Heritage Days Festival on Sept. 29 and 30 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Now in its 42nd year, the festival features crafts, primitives, antiques, antique tractors, horses, food, live music, and a Civil War and 18th-century living history camp. There will also be archaeological displays on Sunday only.
Various vendors will be at the event, including a blacksmith, woodcarver, candlemaker and dulcimer player, according to assistant park manager Sierra Marth.
“There’s a little bit of everything,” Marth said of the festival.
Activities will be scattered throughout the park. Horses from the Central Ohio Draft Horse Association will provide wagon rides to help shuttle guests from one activity to the next.
“It’s a free festival, so even if you’re just looking for something to do outdoors with family it gives you something to do to really kick off the fall season,” Marth said.
For some families, the Ohio Heritage Days Festival is tradition.
“A lot of people have been coming to the festival with their families for a long time,” Marth said.
The event will include free self-guided tours of Louis Bromfield’s “Big House,” providing people with the opportunity to learn about the Pulitzer-prize winning novelist, Marth said.
Attendees can also tour the Ceely Rose House.
“There are storyboards in the Ceely Rose House so those walking through it can read about the history of Ceely Rose and the murders that happened at that house in the 1890s,” Marth said.
The fun continues on Saturday night with the Heritage Barn Dance from 7 to 10 p.m. This square-and-line-dancing event welcomes beginners. A $1-donation is requested at the door for those 12 and older.
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