Fall Festival Today to learn about Yesterday

ZANESVILLE, Ohio – The sixth annual Fall Festival at National Road & Zane Grey Museum is this Saturday from 10:00 A.M. until 5:00 P.M.

The Fall Festival will have Scare crow making and slime making for families with children. Joanna Duncan the Education Director said this year they’ll bring in the Zanesville Post State Highway Patrol and Perry Township Fire Department to help with a new activity.

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“The new thing is we’re having ‘Touch a Truck’, touch a tractor, or touch some great big vehicle,” Duncan said. “So we have between 10 and 15 vehicles coming and at 1:00 P.M. we even have a A-1 Towing who is going to give us a boom demonstration.”

A boom demonstration is a truck that has a lifting mechanism that can rotate around the truck to pick up other vehicles.

Touch a Truck is from 11:00 A.M. until 2:00 P.M., this will give children the chance to climb in different vehicles and learn first hand from the drivers about those vehicles. Duncan said the Fall Festival is free, but all donations can go towards educational programs about the National Road.

“The coming of the national road into Ohio started in 1811 in Cumberland, Maryland. Coming into Ohio was really important, because it let people sell in this area where there was nobody,” Duncan said. “We could have made a lot of pottery, but if it didn’t get back to the east, where you’d sell it. Why would you make it?”

Duncan said the Museum will be open for self guided tours, and they’ll also have tours with a guide throughout the day.