[NEohioPAL]9/11 Celebrate America! festival honors Classic Americana at Akron's Lock 3 Live

[reynolds,victoria]

Dear NeohioPAL Subscriber ~

On Sat., Sept. 11, the FREE Celebrate America! festival at Lock 3 Live!
park celebrates classic Americana. Fittingly, activities include
pie-baking and pie-eating contests, kite flying and strolling barbershop
quartets. Participating entities include the Marlboro Volunteers Inc.
military museum, Akron Remembrance Coalition, Akron's Coming Together
Project, American Red Cross Bloodmobile, the NYC Fire Department, and
Ohio & Erie Canal tours by Cuyahoga Valley National Park volunteers.
Kids' activities include beading, patriotic face-painting, patriotic
streamers, and drawing pictures for American troops.=20

Live entertainment spotlights Mr. Jack Daniel's Original Silver Cornet
Band, Paragon Ragtime Orchestra, Sounds of Sousa, Elixir, and Bob Ford.=20

Celebrate the spirit of America at this red-white-and-blue event! Lock 3
Live! park--located on Main Street next to the Akron Civic Theatre--is
operated by The University of Akron's management team at E.J. Thomas
Performing Arts Hall and the Akron Civic Theatre. This festival is FREE.
Get more details online at http://www.lock3live.com or call the Civic
Theatre Info Line at 330-535-3178.

Free parking is available in the O'Neil's Deck (entrance off State
Street), Cascade Parking Deck (enter from Quaker Street) and Landmark
Deck (entrance off Bowery Street). Paid parking is available in the
Summit County Parking Deck (entrance off High Street). For event
information and updates, visit www.lock3live.com, or call the Civic
Theatre Info Line at 330.535.3178.=20