HERITAGE DAYS SCHEDULE FIRMING UP – A dynamic team of volunteers is working to retool and expand Cumberland’s half a century of Heritage Days traditions. Under management of the Allegany County Historical Society and partnering with members of the Western Maryland Heritage Association, this year’s event is being aided by grants from the Maryland Heritage Area Authority and the City of Cumberland and is bigger and more ambitious that any in memory.

This schedule is still a work in progress, and subject to change for program availability or public health adjustments, but the committee behind Heritage Days 2021 and the new Wills Creek Muster is in the home stretch.

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 10th

Whiskey Rebellion – 6- 10 pm
Reception at Allegany Museum – Ticketed Event

Scenic Railroad Programs
• Hands On Throttle – 8:30 am
• Frostburg Flyer – 11:30 am

 

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 11th

OPEN 10 AM – 6 PM

9/11 Commemoration
Downtown Stage
Washington Street Stage – 9:30am–9:59 am
• First Responders tribute comments, Invocation, Recognition of the moment the South Tower collapsed, Taps

Emmanuel Episcopal Church
• Tunnel Tours
• Strawberry Short Cake
• New Rose Hill Cemetery Tours
• Fort Cumberland Model and Mountainside Baroque at Hoye House

Touch the Truck – 10 am – 3 pm
Canal Street

Queen City Antique Car Club – 10am – 2pm
Western Maryland Railway Station

Scenic Railroad Programs
• Frostburg Flyer – 11:30 am
• Murder Mystery – 7:30pm

Gilchrist Gallery
Brent Nelson Art Show

Jane Ailes at Jane Gates House

Masonic Temple Tours 10am – 3pm

 

Muster Special Programming

• George Washington at Gordon Roberts House – 12- 2 pm
• Washington Troop Review Cannon Shot Musket Fire – 4:30- 5:30 pm
• Proclamations and Ribbon Cuttings

City Hall Parade – 5:30 – 6:00 pm

City Hall Reenactor Dinner
6:30 – 7:30pm – Ticketed Event

“Josephine County Trio” – 7:30 pm
Emmanuel Church – Ticketed Event

 

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 12th

OPEN 11 AM – 5 PM

Seventeenth Century
Emmanuel Service – 9 am
with George Washington and Ben Franklin

Emmanuel Episcopal Church
• Tunnel Tours
• Strawberry Short Cake
• New Rose Hill Cemetery Tours
• Fort Cumberland Model and Mountainside Baroque at Hoye House

Scenic Railroad Programs
• Hands On Throttle – 8:30 am
• Frostburg Flyer – 11:30 am

OTHER WEEKEND
COMMUNITY EVENTS

• CASA Wine and Beer Festival
Saturday, Canal Place

• Allegany Arts Council
A Mazing City Temporary Art Installation Riverside Park

• 3M Bike Challenge on Western Maryland Scenic Railroad
Saturday

• Cumberland Historic Cemetery Organization Guided Tours

• B’er Chayim Synagogue Sunday Tour

• LaVale Lions Chicken Sale

• Central Assembly Muddy Buddy Run
Saturday

Visit www.mdmountainside.comfor details

 

 

NEW IN 2021

For Kids!

• Touch The Truck on Canal Street
• Pack your Wagon Program on Washington Street

For History Enthusiasts

• Wills Creek Muster 18th Century Reenactors
• George Washington Horse Mounted Whiskey Rebellion Troop Review
• New Self Guided Walking and Driving Tour of Rose Hill Cemetery
• Jane Gates House Tours & Presentation

 

Free Entertainment

Saturday

Downtown McCoury Stage
• Miss Heritage Days Talent Presentations & Crowning
• Arion Community Band
• Roy Wright, acoustic performer

Prospect Square Stage
• Dean Howarth – 18th Century Science
• Mark Robert Cash
• Josephine County Trio
• Black Guy Fawkes

Hoye House
• Mountainside Baroque Gilchrist Gallery
• “Flybirds” at 5 – 7pm

Sunday

Downtown McCoury Stage
• Sam DeMartino
• Janice Ray &Friends
• Risque Rock n’ Roll

Prospect Square Stage
• The Cramer Brothers
• Megan Jean & the KFB
• Potomac Concert Band
• Church Folk