Antique Days Festival will return to Yazoo City this year. The annual festival will be held at the Triangle Cultural Center green space, 332 North Main St, on Oct. 24 from 7 a.m. until 6 p.m. Antique Days was started as a community event celebrating the the agricultural heritage of the community. It has turned into so much more with the Kibbie Cookoff, History On Wheels Antique Car Show, Glenwood Cemetery tour, old church tour, kids zone, and name entertainers all afternoon. This is a free event with no admission. Sugar cane will be crushed beginning at 7 a.m. and cooking in an iron kettle the rest of the day. Fresh made cane syrup will be available to purchase. There will also be grinding corn meal, Lyle Wynn will give blacksmith demonstrations, Greg Harkins will have his handmade chairs and Bobby Rico will be selling his handmade knives. Old engines will be puffing and banging away. Ann Taggart of Taggart Electric will be making buttermilk biscuits and giving them away with fresh made cane syrup. The Kibbie Competition starts at 10 a.m.. with registration and 12 p.m. sending entry to judges. At 2 p.m, judges will announce thewinner. First place gets a Rico knife and cash prize. Second prize gets a cash prize. The Lebanese immigrants were the early merchants of Yazoo City and an important link to the past. Kibbie will be sold all day from the contestants. No matter how you spell it, Kibbeh, Kibbe, Kibbie, Kubbie, Kibby, or Kibbah, it really tastes good. Martha Foose, noted chef, owner of Mockingbird Bakery in Greenwood, Ms. and author of “Screen Doors and Sweet Tea” will be one of the judges. The guided Glenwood Cemetery tour starts at 9 a.m. with a trolley ride to the cemetery. You will soak up some Yazoo legend at the cemetery and hear some of the history of Yazoo City and its early residents. The trolley will be back again at 10a.m. for the historic church tour which includes the six earliest churches in the downtown area with its rich past. It will show the fortitude of the early Yazooans that built back their churches after the 1904 fire. The second historic church tour leaves the Triangle at 1 p.m. The “History On Wheels Antique Car Show” will be on the Presbyterian Church parking lot on Washington Street from 10 a.m. until 1 p.m. Ten trophies will be awarded plus Yazoo City Mayor Diane Delaware will award her mayor's trophy. On the south side of the Triangle building will be entertainment all afternoon with the “ACE CANNNON'S 2015 FALL FESTIVAL TOUR”. Arion (Baby) Bell with his band will start playing at 12:30 P.M. To 1:30 P.M. on center stage. At 2p.m., Jamie Isonhood of Yazoo City, and Travis Wammack and his band from Muscle Shoals, Aal. will be playing until 3:30 p.m. with special guest Mack Allen Smith of Greenwood. From 4-6 p.m., the great Grammy Award artist, ACE CANNON, the Godfather of the Saxophones, will perform at our outdoor stage on the library grounds with the rest of the group. Bring your lawn chairs. This is a free event. For more information on this event, contact Phyllis Haynes, 662 590-5415 or email mainantiques@cableone.net. To learn more, visit http://antiquedays.com.
