2010 Iron Heritage Festival Schedule of Events

Tickets available for ALL events at the IHF Company Store, 316 Mill St. 275-6700

• Church Tours – several Sundays preceding the Festival. Directions and Listing will be available at IHF Company Store June 1 JULY 10, 2010


• 10am to 5pm – IHF Garden Tour ($12) Map will be available at the IHF Company Store JULY 11, 2010. Click here for directions
• Noon to 5pm – IHF Garden Tour ($12) Map will be available at the IHF Company Store. Click here for directions

SUNDAY, JULY 18, 2010
• 4pm -Straub Lutheran Church Cemetery Walk’ with Welshmen Herman Jones and Larry Mordan. Frosty Valley Rd. Danville.
• 7:00 – Organ recital at St. Paul’s-Emanuel United Methodist Church by Mr. Daniel Hower

Tuesday, July 20, 2010
• 9:30am – Bus tour to Yuengling Brewery Pottsville PA. (not handicapped accessible) Lunch at The Wooden Keg Tavern at 12:30pm.(not included in ticket price) Tickets $20/person

WEDNESDAY July 21, 2010
• 6:00pm - A Picnic at the Grove ($20)
• 6:00pm – Danville Community Band at Canal Park
• 6:00pm – 1st Annual IHF Dr. Foss Tennis Tournament (application available at Company Store or on line on the 2010 IHF Detail page)
• 8:30, 8:45 and 9:00pm - Cemetery Tours by Lantern Light, Fairview, Jewish & Episcopal Cemeteries, Wall Street ($ 7.50)

THURSDAY JULY 22, 2010
• 8am till 6pm - Start of the Out House Dig – behind Mertz & Associates, 299 Mill Street. (weather dependent)
• 7pm- IHF Parade, starting at TRW lot where it marches down E. Market St to Mill St. and ends up at Coles Hardware Parking Lot. (food available 4pm until ?) (application available at Company Store or on line on the 2010 IHF Detail page)
• 8:30 – 10:30pm - Stanky and the Coal Miners Polka Party, at Coles Hardware parking lot
• After Parade – Performance by the Avalon String Band – Across from Montgomery House
• After Parade – Summit City Saints Dixieland Band at Canal Park

FRIDAY JULY 23, 2010
• 8am till 6pm – Finish of Out House Dig behind Mertz & Associates, 299 Mill Street. (weather dependent)
• 10am - Bus Tour of Iron with Sis Hause ($10 )
• Noon to 5pm – Montgomery House Open House
• Noon – Canal Park Stage – “New Found Sound” Barbershop Quartet
• 1pm – Canal Park Stage – For the Kids: Woody Wolfe
• 1pm – Bus Tour of Iron with Sis Hause ($10)
• 2pm – Canal Park Stage – For the Kids: ‘Suzanne Walzer
• 4pm - ‘Watchbox Meeting’ ‘Pass the Peanuts’, with Van Wagner. Dedication of the Joseph Parry Brick (buy membership cards, $2)
• 5:30, 5:45 & 9:00pm- Cemetery Tours, Fairview, Jewish & Episcopal Cemeteries, Wall Street ($ 7.50)
• 6:00pm – 1st Annual IHF Dr. Foss Tennis Tournament (application available at Company Store or on line on the 2010 IHF Detail page)
• 6pm to 8pm - Antique Market in the DMS Gym
• 6pm to 8pm - Reading Model Railroad in the DMS Gym
• 6pm - Franklin Furnace with Gene Shipe on Furnace Road off route 642
• 7pm – ‘Railroads of Montour’ with John Decker at Hawkins Garage, Mill St.
• 7pm – “Evening with the Celts” ‘Charlie Zahm’, “Principal Players of the Brandywine Celtic Harp Orchestra” ($12) Community Ball Room
• 8pm - Mine Hike at Sunnybrook Park with Herman, Larry and Van (walking shoes needed)

SATURDAY JULY 24, 2010
Open all Day! Mill Street with strolling entertainers, music stages, food, special stages, Victorian Highwheelers and more!!
Open all day! DMS Complex which includes the Artisan Encampment, Blast Furnace, Quoit Tournament, Tennis Tournament, entertainment and more!!
• 6:45am – 7:15am – Quoit Tournament Registration, behind DMS tennis court, tournament starts 8am sharp!
• 7:15-8:15 – DMS Gym Registration for ‘5K Rails to Trails’ Race starts at 8:30 am (application available at Company Store or on line on the 2010 IHF Detail page)
• 9:00am – 1st Annual IHF Dr. Foss Tennis Tournament Semi-Finals (application available at Company Store or on line on the 2010 IHF Detail page)
• 9:30am – Tour of St. Cyril’s Basilica
• 10am to 5pm – Montgomery House Open House – Revolutionary War display, Book signings
• 10am-5pm - Reading Model Railroad in the DMS Gym
• 10am-5pm – Antique Market in the DMS Gym
• 10am-5pm – DMS – World War II 28th Division Chaplin Re-enactors
• 10am-5pm – DMS – Eileen Anderson, Confederate refugee Washer Woman
• 10am-5pm – Mill Street – Steelworker’s Archives, Inc.
• 10am-5pm –Danville High School Alumni in the Moose, Mill Street
• 10am-5pm – Out House Dig presentation, behind Mertz & Associates, 299 Mill Street. (weather dependent)
• 10am-5pm – Displays and Demonstrations of ‘Fashions’, Artisans in the Community Ballroom, Mill Street
• 10am - Mine Hike at Sunnybrook Park with Herman, Larry and Van (walking shoes needed)
• 10am – Franklin Furnace with Gene Shipe, on Furnace Road off route 642
• 10am – Rich Pawling, “Conrad Weiser”, Moose, Mill Street
• 10am - ‘Railroads of Montour’ with John Decker at Hawkins Chevrolet
• 10am – Canal Park Stage, Jim Haner ‘Banjo Man’
• 10am – Mill Street Stage, ‘The Joe Latovica Polka Punch’
• 10:15am - Au Matin in the Basilica on the grounds of St. Cyril Academy
• 11am-1pm - Jankola Library Open House, on the grounds of St Cyril Academy
• 11am-3:30pm – Carriage Rides ($5 adults, $3 children)) corner of Mill and West Mahoning Streets (Carriage and horses will break for lunch from 12:30 to 1:00)
• 11am – ‘Porch Front Stage’ Montour County Court House - The Story of Robert Morris by Becky Getkin
• 11am – Canal Park Stage – ‘Donna Reynolds’
• Noon – ‘Railroads of Montour’ with John Decker at Hawkins Chevrolet
• Noon – Canal Park Stage, ‘Suzanne Walzer’
• Noon – Studio Brick – Jerry Zeisler ‘History of Danville’s Jewish Community’
• Noon – Mill Street Stage – ‘Shippensburg’s German Band’
• Noon - ‘Porch Front Stage’ Montour County Court House Mr. Martin Walzer as Mr. John Jacobs
• 12:30pm – Artisan Encampment – ‘Little German Band’
• 1pm – Canal Park Stage ‘Ed Petrovich’
• 1pm - ‘Front Porch Stage’ Mr. Thomas Smith as ‘William Penn’
• 1pm - ‘Railroads of Montour’ with John Decker at Hawkins Chevrolet
• 1pm - Mill Street Stage - ‘Keith Brintzenhoff’
• 2pm – Canal Park Stage ‘Rich Pawling & Joe Meck’
• 2pm – DMS Auditorium – ‘Pat Malone’ The Industrial Archaeology of Iron and Anthracite
• 2pm – Hot Dog Eating Contest, Pappas’ Restaurant
• 2pm – Mill Street Stage – ‘Celtica’
• 2pm - ‘Porch Front Stage’ – Montour County Court House ‘Fiona Siobhan Powell’ Storyteller!
• 3pm - Mill Street Stage – ‘Shippensburg’s German Band’
• 3pm – Ore Car Presentation with Herman Jones, Montour Co. Courthouse
• 3pm – Canal Park Stage ‘Suzanne Walzer’
• 3pm-4pm - Artisan Encampment ‘Little German Band’
• 4pm – Canal Park Stage ‘Van Wagner’
• 4pm – Mill Street Stage ‘Jodee James’
• 5pm – Canal Park Stage ‘Jay Smar’
• 6pm – Canal Park Stage ‘Lowlander Highlanders’
• 7pm – Canal Park Stage ‘Echoing Hearts’
• 7pm – DMS Auditorium – ‘An Evening of Music and Dance’ ($8 adults, $5 children)
• 10pm – ‘Fireworks on the River’

Sunday July 25, 2010
• 10am to 3pm Fly-In at the Danville/Riverside Airport, Sunbury Road, Riverside along with antique farm machinery, car show and food vendor.
• 10am – Heritage Church Service at Mahoning Presbyterian Church
• Noon to 2pm – Montgomery House Open House
• Noon to 2pm –DMS Gym Reading Model Railroad
• Noon to 2pm – DMS Gym, Antique Market
• Noon - ‘Railroads of Montour’ with John Decker at Hawkins Chevrolet
• 2:15pm – DMS Auditorium – ‘The Singing Boys of Pennsylvania’ ($5)
• 3pm – ‘Gymanfa Ganu’, Mahoning Presbyterian Church, corner of East Mahoning and Ferry Streets. Immediately following the Gymanfa Ganu, a Te Bach, Welsh Tea will be served.
• 6:30 pm - Hymn Sing, Montgomery Park on Water Street by the River Bring your lawn chairs (Rain, Mahoning Presbyterian Church)
Due to the circumstances beyond our control, stated events may be changed as time gets closer.