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Festival Fact Sheet

• The 29th annual Long’s Park Art & Craft Festival will be held rain or shine Friday, August 31 through Labor Day Monday, September 3, 2007. Show hours are 10 am to 6 pm, closing one hour earlier Monday.

• The Long’s Park Art & Craft Festival has been rated the No. 4 fine art and craft show in the country by national rating organization, The Harris List.

• The festival will feature 200 of the country’s top fine artists and craftspeople.

• An independent panel of national jurors reviewed nearly 1,200 applications from artists and craftspeople living in 45 different states, the District of Columbia and 2 foreign countries.

• The show will showcase a selection of precious and non-precious jewelry, apparel, leather, glass, paintings, photography and other fine art and crafts.

• A special “Breakfast in the Park” benefit will be held Friday, August 31 from 8 to 9:30 am. Patrons of this special fundraising event will be treated to a gourmet champagne breakfast, catered by Olde Greenfield Inn, Lancaster. They will also be offered private shopping time at the festival a half hour before the show opens to the public.

Patron tickets to the event are $100 apiece or two for $150.

• The Susquehanna Style Bistro at Long’s Park will offer guests a tantalizing array of food from some of the region’s finest restaurants and caterers.

• Three selections of Tamanend Wines and four choices of Iron Hill Brewery craft beers will also be available.

• Wine and craft beer tastings will be offered in the Susquehanna Style Bistro for $5 a person.

— Sunday, September 2 from 2 to 3 pm - craft beer tastings of Iron Hill Brewery’s craft beers

— Monday, September 3 from 2 to 3 pm - wine tastings of a sampling of Pennsylvania wines

• Free live entertainment will be presented throughout the four-day event in the Susquehanna Style Bistro.

• A Creative Kid’s Corner, cosponsored by Pennsylvania College of Art & Design, will allow younger guests to discover their own talents and create a personal work of art.

• Festival managing director is Amy L. Marberger. Festival artistic director is Donna Stephen Reinaker. Both serve in a volunteer capacity.

• The 2007 Long’s Park Art & Craft Festival is presented by the Long’s Park Amphitheater Foundation to help underwrite the free, 13-week Long’s Park Summer Entertainment Series.

• Discounted admission is available online at www.longspark.org through August 28: $8 for one-day ticket; $10 for a multi-day pass.

• Tickets will also be on sale at the Festival: $10 for one-day admission, $12 for a multi-day pass. Children 12 and under are free. Group rates are available for parties of 10 or more; contact the Long’s Park Amphitheater Foundation office.

• Long’s Park is a lovely, 70-acre park on the northwest edge of Lancaster City. It is conveniently situated off the Route 30 bypass at the Harrisburg Pike/Park City Center exit.