The 28th Annual Maryland Sheep and Wool Festival sponsored by the Maryland Sheep breeders Association will be held May 5-6, 2001 at the Howard County Fairgrounds. OF SPECIAL NOTE: If you travel in Great Britain or any country where foot and mouth disease has been found within 10 days of the wool festival, we ask that your forego the fun this year and make plans to join us the first week of May in 2002. Foot and mouth is an airborne disease. We are making every effort to keep our animals healthy and our industry solid by avoiding any possibility of unsuspecting contamination from clothing, shoes, or other items. Thank you for helping us with this effort. The perennial festival favorites--working sheepdog demonstrations, Sheep Breed Display, Sheep Shows, fiber and farm equipment auctions. and SHOPPING will return to the Festival. The Festival is the primary gathering of vendors of tools and materials relating to sheep and wool processing. If you can't find it there, it isn't made! Exciting fiber arts seminars offered prior to and during the Festival; pre-register for adult classes; kids classes at the Festival fill on a first come basis. Contests with cash prizes include the popular sheep-to-shawl shearing, spinning and weaving contest, skein and garment, photography, cooking and 12 others! All have adult and child divisions and may be entered at the Fairgrounds. The Festival is Held at the Howard County Fairgrounds on Route 144 in West Friendship, MD. Parking and admission are FREE. The Fairgrounds are open 9 a.m. - 6 p.m. on Saturday and 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Sunday. NO PETS are allowed at the Fairgrounds. For all contest or other information, go to www.sheepandwool.org or call the Festival office at 410-531-3647. To stop mail temporarily mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: set nomail To restore send: set mail
