2008 Northumberland Dry Stone Wall Festival
“ROCKTOBERFEST”
Location - 'Stonebridge', 10 acres of gardens, rolling hills and walls on 2973 Cornish Hollow Rd, R.R. #6 Cobourg, Ontario Canada K9A4J9. Free parking and admission.
Attractions
Beehive Hut Project - A dry stone hut with vaulted roof to be completed during the festival. Dry Stone Competition - Teams of wallers will try their hand at building dry stone ‘trees’ on the festival site. Student Workshop - A full day of hands-on walling instruction - Saturday Oct 11; fee 200 dollars. Please pre-register by emailing us at john@dswac.ca. Children's supervised walling events - Inukshuks and arches. Live music- Ancient Music Trio. Stone balancing displays - built by wallers and volunteers during the festival. Trade Booths,Book Displays and Special Exhibit Tents of various participating waller's work. Garden tour of existing dry stone work on the property, including Cornish Hollow Bridge. Dry stone self-guided walking/driving tour of the Walls of Northumberland County.
Accommodation - Port Hope Hill and Dale Manor Cobourg Best Western Free camping available on site.
Evening Lectures and Films - at the Capital Theatre 700 pm on Saturday night (to be followed by Pub Night at the Beamish Inn) Guest Presenters - geologist and author Robert Thorson, professor at the University of Connecticut, (others to be confirmed, engineer Bob Moss, film maker Bill Stone, and John Shaw-Rimmington)
Special Guest Waller - Norman Haddow from Scotland
Sponsors - Derusha Tools Upper Canada Minerals
For more information please return to this page as the date for the festival approaches Contact us at donnajane@rogers.com or john@dswac.ca
