With more than 15,000 visitors anticipated at the Destrehan Plantation Fall Festival, it’s going to be an even bigger show this year.
“We’re looking forward to having another successful festival,” said Executive Director Nancy Robert. “All our vendor spaces are booked, food vendors booked and we’ve had such a good response.”
The 44th annual festival in Destrehan will be held Nov. 10 and 11. The gates will open 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
“This year, we have some new arts and crafts vendors, bringing the total to 128 this year,” said Melissa Monica, head of media and public relations.
An additional seven vendors coming to the show means visitors can also shop at the Shard Shop NOLA booth with its glass art with resin on canvas board; a new wood turner Stephen Fabre; Cindy West and Maureen Miller selling fairy garden kits, and Rebecca Aldridge with her homemade rocking chairs that fold flat.
Monica said the returning vendors have come to the show for years, bringing goods that have attracted shoppers
for years.
New this year, she said plantation demonstrators also will have a booth with handmade furniture.
Antique vendors also will be featured in this year’s festival, as well as many of the appealing food vendors that continue to offer tasty dishes at the Cajun and Creole Food Park.
Entertainment will include the band Summer Breeze on Saturday. Sunday’s band will be Cuisine. Both will perform noon to 4 p.m.
Tours of the plantation will be available for $5.
The plantation’s schoolhouse will be open to kids to play old time games like checkers, Jacob’s Ladder and Pick Up Sticks with their parents, Monica said.
There also will be pony rides and face painting for children.
Admission is $8 for adults and teens. Children age 12 and under get in free.
Additional parking will be available behind the Mule Barn, where an additional 8 acres was purchased last year. Robert said those parking there will have a shuttle bring them to the admission gate.
All proceeds benefit the River Road Historical Society and its site expansion at the plantation.
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