River Festival 2008
Photos by Glenn Schicker
Although rain fell both afternoons of the second annual Roscommon River Festival, visitors to Wallace Park and surrounding streets took advantage of a variety of exhibits and activities.
 | | FLY TYING (Above) Jeff "Bear" Andrews of Grayling demonstrates the art of fly tying Saturday, first day of the second annual Roscommon River Festival. |
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Events centered on fishing, canoeing, kayaking and other pursuits associated with the Au Sable River. There was even a "Dock Dog-Big Air Competition" for canine athletes, and the Roscommon Rotary Club staged its 21st annual Great Au Sable Duck Race on the last afternoon of the festival.
 | | WOODWORK (Right) Wooden kayaks and other wooden boats were a favorite of spectators at the River Festival in Roscommon's Wallace Park Saturday. |
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 | | PACKING IT IN Gayle Yerge-Cole, a Higgins Lake summer resident from Livonia, shows how to pack a 13-foot kayak with gear for three days of comfortable camping. Her tips included attaching pull ropes to waterproof bags in the bow and stern of the boat. Yerge-Cole was one of many people who demonstrated river-related skills during the River Festival in Roscommon Saturday. Sunday's activities included free kayak paddle from Wallace Park to the Paddle Brave Canoe Livery, the "Dock Dog-Big Air Competition" and the Roscommon Rotary Club's 21st annual Great Au Sable Duck Race. |
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 | | FLY CASTING As a group of tubers begins a float down the South Branch of the Au Sable River, Ray Davies gives fly casting instructions in Wallace Park in Roscommon during Saturday's River Festival. |
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 | | TRYING IT ON FOR SIZE A Roscommon River Festival visitor tries out a canoe at the booth of the Old Au Sable Fly Shop, Grayling, one of numerous outdoors-related vendors who set up in Wallace Park and on nearby streets. |
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