Friends of New Echota invite you to get outdoors and explore the historic town site at New Echota Cherokee Capital State Historic Site for Frontier Day on Saturday, October 20, 2012 from 10 am to 4 pm. All historic buildings will be open throughout the day for tours, information and entertainment. Cherokee artists, craftsmen, and Friends of New Echota members will demonstrate early 19th century skills such as butter churning, tatting, native plants and herbs, basket making, fiber spinning and weaving, weapons, wood carving, pottery, and quilling, and more. Be sure to come by the Cherokee Phoenix Print Shop where volunteers will show how the first Native American newspaper was printed. A variety of old-time music will be provided throughout the day by the New Coosa Valley Boys with Lynn Baines (all day in the Piney Grove), Sacred Harp Singers (10 am to 2 pm at the Courthouse), and dulcimer players Kathryn Sproull and Janice Smith (all day at Vann’s Tavern). Special guest, singer-storyteller, Gary Greene, will be also be performing. Standard admission fees of $4.50-$6.50 allow access to the museum, film, historic grounds, buildings, nature trails, and all historic demonstrations. New Echota State Historic Site attracts almost 10,000 visitors annually, including hundreds of students of all ages from area public and private schools. The site is located one mile east of I-75, exit 317, on GA Hwy. 225N. For more information, call 706-624-1321 or visit www.gastateparks.org. Georgia’s state historic sites are operated by the Georgia Department of Natural Resources.