Celebrate winter Smoky style
Maggie Valley’s inaugural WinterFest Smoky Style will celebrate the best of the cold-weather season 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 28, at the Maggie Valley Festival Grounds, with other events bookending the festival Friday and Saturday nights.
The festival will include Plott hound, police K9 and sled dog demonstrations as well as a dog pulling competition officially sanctioned by the International Weight Pull Association. The cast of Hillbilly Blood, a Discovery Channel reality television show about surviving in the mountains filmed in and around Haywood, will demonstrate their survival skills, and there will be plenty of activities geared toward children.
In addition, photography seminars and a guided photo shoot with Lens Lugger Photographic Association will be held and prizes awarded in a winter photo contest.
Admission and a portion of other proceeds will go to Friends of the Haywood County Animal Shelter, a newly formed group whose goal is to fund a new county animal shelter.
