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The National Park Service's San Francisco National Historical Park issued the following press release: 19th CENTURY SEAFARING HERITAGE COMES ALIVE at festival of the sea 2006!
Music, Living History and Traditional Crafts at San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park.
Free! One Day Only! 10am - 5pm, Saturday, September 9, 2006, at Hyde Street Pier.
Maritime history will come splendidly to life at this one-day event featuring live music and culture from the age of sail. San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park visitors will be transported back to the days of square-rigged ships, gold seekers, and harrowing Cape Horn passages.
Some of the finest singers and instrumentalists from the Bay Area will perform centuries-old sea chanteys, mournful ballads, and raucous drinking songs from the days when hard work and strong canvas ruled the waves. Join in on some of the songs as the park honors maritime history and the 25th anniversary of the park's monthly sea chantey sing-along. In addition, the festival will feature live theater, kids' maritime crafts and programs, gold panning, blacksmithing, boat building and racing contests, rope making and knot tying, living history shipboard demonstrations, and a variety of exhibits.
Admission to Festival of the Sea 2006 is free (suggested $5 donation) and includes entrance to the National Historic Landmark vessels berthed at Hyde Street Pier. This year's festival takes place on Saturday, September 9, from 10am-5pm, at Hyde Street Pier, at the corner of Hyde and Jefferson Streets.
You might hit pay dirt at the kids' gold panning event! Other children's activities include kids' maritime sing-alongs and storytelling, and crafts from the sea. Learn the signal flag alphabet and make a necklace spelling your name!
Theatrical performances feature Michael Oakes of Live Oakes Theater who will recreate maritime writer Jack London's maritime adventures around the Bay in "Seawolf - the Life of Jack London," and his experience as a reporter in 1906 San Francisco in "Jack London: An Eyewitness to...