Victorian Games and ECMA Winners Highlight Sherbrooke Village Children's Festival

N.S. MUSEUM--Victorian Games and ECMA Winners Highlight Sherbrooke Village Children's Festival

Sherbrooke Village has long been known as a place where visitors of all ages can experience life as it was more than 100 years ago. On Sunday, Aug. 17, however, the focus will be on kids as the village hosts the first Sherbrooke Village Children's Festival.

The living history museum has planned a day of activities that will allow children ages 5 to 15 to do some of the things youngsters would have done in the 1860s. There will be Victorian games, such as sack and three-legged races, croquet and checkers. There will be a watermelon eating contest and a giant rendition of the Sherbrooke string game that encourages participants to follow winding trails of coloured yarn over and under obstacles -

• including each other.

Nova Scotia's popular family entertainment act, The Kidd Brothers, will close the afternoon with their ECMA winning children's act.

For those who pre-register, a limited number of places are available for free living history activities such as pottery and beanbag making, woodworking and wagon rides. A family of four (two adults and two children under age 15) can pre-register for $10. Lunch is provided to pre-registered participants.

Located on Highway 7, on Nova Scotia's Eastern Shore, Sherbrooke Village will provide fun for families rain or shine at the Sherbrooke Village Children's Festival, For more information, or to pre-register call 1-888-SHER-VIL (743-7845).