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Giles Festival in Knifley Saturday, October 2, 2004

The Giles Society Arts and Crafts Day is an annual event at the Giles House in Knifley, Kentucky, just a few miles north of Columbia, and everyone is invited to attend and enjoy crafts booths, country-style foods, music and clear spring water.

The Janice Holt and Henry Giles Foundation has restored the cabin in which most of the Giles' books were written at Spout Springs. Events are held there regularly. In addition to lawn chairs and food, folks often bring empty water containers with them and take home a sample of the clear, cold spring water which Henry often wrote about in his regular column called "Spout Springs Splashes" in the 1970s. You can find many stories in the archives on the Foundation and on the authors.

Once again this year, on National Public Radio, they announced the location name as if there's a knife in the word, it's not called knife-lee. The local pronounciation of the community name Knifley has the word "if" in the middle: N-if-lee. See you there!

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Janice and Henry would have been proud...

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Giles Festival Saturday, October 2, 2004



2004-10-01 - Knifley, KY - Photo Linda Waggener. THE PLACE TO BE on Saturday, October 2, 2004 is the Giles Festival in Knifley, just a few miles north of Columbia. This year's annual event promises to be one of the best.
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Giles Festival 2004



2004-10-07 - Knifley, KY - Photo George Kolbenschlag. SHARON REECE ENTERTAINED at the Giles Festival last Saturday as the official accordian player. Co-festival Director Beverly England says Sharon is from the Knifley area. The weather was not the best, but it didn't stop the fun, song and food.
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Weaving at the Giles Festival



2004-10-07 - Knifley, KY - Photo George Kolbenschlag. RHONDA SMITH is a basket weaver from Adair County. Her hands were busy during the event demonstrating her craft.
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Folk studies at the Giles Festival



2004-10-07 - Knifley, KY - Photo George Kolbenschlag. THE LINDSEY WILSON FOLKLORE and Oral History class was represented at the Giles Festival last weekend. They are, from front to back on the left: Kimberleigh Boatner and Brittany Johnston. On the right, from front to back are: Harvey Schulist; Amey Jeffries; and instructor Carolyn Keefe. Henry and Janice Holt Giles would have been delighted to entertain the students in their home. A wealth of stories would have been shared.
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