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Home PageSUNDAY AT MONTAUK CRAFTS AND MUSIC EVENT
IS JULY 6 AT MONTAUK STATE PARK
JEFFERSON CITY, MO., JUNE 26, 2007 -- The annual "Sunday at Montauk" event will be held on July 6 at Montauk State Park near Salem. Sponsored by the Missouri Department of Natural Resources, the event is 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. It is free and open to the public.
Crafters will display their wares and demonstrate a variety of talents and skills in an outdoor shaded area adjacent to the open picnic shelter. Visitors are urged to bring their lawn chairs, sit under the large old walnut trees and enjoy an assortment of live musical entertainment on stage. Entertainment will include folk, bluegrass, fiddle, old-time string, country, western, hoe-down, square dance, clogging and line dance tunes. A large ground-level wooden platform will be available for dancers.
Tours of Montauk Mill, a gristmill built in 1896, will also be available. Montauk Mill is the only remaining structure from the once-thriving Montauk community. Designed by famous millwright, William Jackson Furry, it was constructed with native shortleaf pine and oak hardwoods harvested from the surrounding hills and countryside. Today, the mill contains most of its original machinery. The mill is located just across the road from the event area.
Ample parking will be available in the large parking lot adjacent to Montauk Mill and in an open field nearby. Food and refreshments provided by the park's Dorman L. Steelman Lodge will be sold at the open picnic shelter.
Montauk State Park is located 22 miles south of Salem on Highway 119, or 13 miles east of Licking, or 25 miles north of Houston off of State Route VV. For more information, contact the park at 573-548-2201 or the Department of Natural Resources toll free at 800-334-6946 (voice) or 800-379-2419 (Telecommunications Device for the Deaf). For more information about Missouri state parks and historic sites, visit the Web at www.mostateparks.com.
