The three-day, 39th Annual Appalachian Festival in Cincinnati had two days of rough weather to contend with. But, Saturday’s weather was the kind you pray for while conducting an outdoor festival.
The festival, organized by the Appalachian Community Development Association, features the arts and culture of a region that spans 13 states. The festival is the largest event held outside the Appalachian Mountain Region, but it’s not that far away. Cincinnati is one county away from the edge of the defined Appalachia.
Many things define Appalachia, and music is one of them. Featured musical groups performed on the stages, but wandering musicians gathered, and just started playing, mostly the old standards of mountain music.
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Vendors set up booths to sell their arts and crafts.
And then, there was the living history with people, in period costume of 200 years, demonstrating a way of life.
Festival attendees were invited to participate in the Pow Wow, dancing and learning about the Native American culture and history.
Fascinating!–DBrent
Located at 371 Bridge Street in Loveland, Ohio, the old neighborhood is known as Branch Hill with its roots rich in the history of southwestern Ohio and the Little Miami River Valley. The small coffee shop sits between the very-popular Little Miami Recreational Trail and the bridge crossing the Little Miami River. What else would they call the street but Bridge Street? Branch Hill is a small community with a few businesses, but also a part of the larger community of Loveland.
It’s a little rainy, today. So I thought I would put together a report–my observations and experience with the V-Strom DL650–my new motorcycle.
Producer Michael Murray talks about the DVDs, and the efforts to produce them in this latest installment of Conversations. He also talks about future travel DVD destinations and some of his other projects. Michael is the founder and CEO of Motorrad Media, located in Boulder, Colorado.
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