The Mountain Heritage Festival is a fun-filled family event, with something for all ages, including:
• live performances by talented musicians on autoharp, mandolin, guitar, fiddle, and more
• high-quality arts including pottery, fiber art, wood crafts, photography, and more
• traditional items such as handmade soaps, candles, preserves, and locally produced honey
• heritage activities such as quilting, spinning, caning, whittling, and basket weaving
• living history around the Civil War-era log cabin, including cooking over the fire
• live animals including the most common chickens in the South before the Civil War
• oxen, guineas, mules, goats, and Old English Game Bantams to experience
• demonstrations such as spinning, quilting, needlework, making rag rugs, shooting black powder rifles, and hatchet throwing.
• hands-on activities such as sorghum cane to taste, gold-panning, holding or petting goats, mules, a calf, and chickens

These heritage activities help tell the story of life in this rugged land a century ago, giving us a glimpse of the inventive, hardworking, and self-sufficient mountain people who settled this area.