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Kenan's Mill Bluegrass Festival.
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Kenan's Mill Bluegrass Festival.
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You don't have to cross Valley Creek on the swinging bridge at Kenan's Mill, but it sure gives you a challenge!
The mill and grounds are open today from 9 a.m. til 5 p.m. for the annual fall festival that features fresh-ground cornmeal and grits, bluegrass music, cornbread and chili cookoffs, pottery making, arts and crafts, wagon rides, inflatable games for children, tours of the mill house and much more. The music begins at 11 a.m. at the bandstand.
Oh yes, you can reach the mill by vehicle or by walking across the old iron bridge. The new red barn also offers handicap-accessible restrooms. So, come on!
If you like music, fresh cornmeal, wagon rides and crafts, then come on out to the Kenan's Mill Fall Festival this Saturday, Nov. 7.
The 1860's gristmill will be grinding corn into meal and grits as Valley Creek meanders its way beneath the swinging bridge and over the spillway.
The bluegrass menu features young fiddler Caleb Bryant of Northport and the Hurricane Creek band. Music starts at 11, and there will be food vendors to supply your appetite as well as cornbread and chili cookoffs.
Try your hand at making pottery from Alabama clay, and visit the craft booths. Tour the mill house and charcoal kiln.
It's going to be a beautiful day for an outing, so bring your lawn chairs and enjoy! Gates open at 9 a.m. and close at 5 p.m. Cost is only $5 per car. The mill is located just north of the Selma city limits off County Road 37 (Summerfield Road).
Kenan's Mill and surrounding grounds were alive with people Saturday at its annual bluegrass festival. The mill was open and cornmeal ground. A bluegrass band and cloggers provided music and dance while onlookers sat on hay bales nearby. A barn was raised the old-fashioned way, and children took rides down the shady lane in a wagon pulled by a tractor. Others braved the swinging bridge across Valley Creek. Kenan's Mill, once owned by the Kenan family, is now a project of the Selma-Dallas County Historic Preservation Society.
Come smell the cornbread cookin' at the Kenan's Mill Bluegrass FestivalNovember 3. The old mill near town will be grinding cornmeal once that day, and visitors can listen to a bluegrass band, take a wagon ride, cross the swinging bridge over the creek or...eat cornbread along with other food fare. This photo shows the official T-shirt for the festival.
