Coastal Companion

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EverGreen Family Festival in Ponte Vedra with New Date

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This festival got moved to a new date due to Hurrican Fay. So mark your calendars and stop by the Cultural Center for an environmentally-themed Family Festival on September 20th! This special day is FREE for our community.
Chalk artist Jo Sinclair will greet you & invite you to create “green-sterpiece,” stroll through a cool rain forest in the courtyard, create a butterfly garden at the JAXPORT & TREE HILL Nature Center butterfly activity table, stop by Guana Research Reserve’s estuary table and make a fun fish project, visit the the JAX4KIDS.com art activity table, visit the water station and Fazzini’s Coffee refreshment area, enjoy special performances and demonstrations throughout the day by Cultural Center artists and instructors, help your child make drums out of recycled Boar’s Head Brand boxes, visit young local artist Chloe Cannan at her recycled art table, get your American Lung Association green tatoo, visit Marie Hurst/GreenSpace Interior Design’s green room filled with fun activities for kids and families, listen to Cultural Center artist Lois Simon read her children’s book, MAC (The Story of a Happy Apple), Cable Spence Kazoo Band will play in the courtyard and more!

For more information about the festival, please contact Ponte Vedra Cultural Center
50 Executive Way, Ponte Vedra Beach, FL
(904) 280-0614 or visit the website at www.ccpvb.org

Where the River Ends Book Signing, St Marys, GA

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Thursday, September 25th

“Where the River Ends” Book Signing – Location and time to be determined

Author Charles Martin will be in downtown St. Marys signing copies of his new release “Where the River Ends”. Released only a few weeks ago, the novel is currently in the top 35 on the New York Times best sellers list. This story is of a husband and his determination to fulfill his wife’s list of things to do before she dies of cancer. Her list brings the couple to St. Marys, Georgia. This novel was recently featured on First Coast News and you should not miss this opportunity to have an autographed copy! For information call 912-882-8111.

Where the River Ends

Arts and Medicine Family Day – Jacksonville, Fl

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Medical illustration, drawing demonstrations, and science inspired activities for kids of all ages. You can also enjoy live music. The event takes place at the Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens and is sponsored by Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida.
Admission is free.For more information, please call (904) 355-0630.

Catfish Festival in Kingsland, Georgia

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Click here to read about 2009 Catfish Festival in Kingsland, Georgia

6th Annual Labor Day Weekend Catfish Festival in Kingsland
If you want to experience a festival in true Southern Style, how about the traditional Catfish Festival in Kingsland taking place on Labor Day weekend? This festival serves up southern-fried catfish with a side of country music. Kingsland, Georgia’s 25th Annual Labor Day Weekend Catfish Festival which runs from Saturday, August 30th thru Monday, September 1st in historic, downtown Kingsland, Georgia.

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