Hope Heritage Days festival celebrates history, food and music

Matthew Mahoney gives the Hawpatch Conversation Club smoked turkey leg a thumbs up during Hope Heritage Days, Hope, Indiana, Friday, September 27, 2019 Carla Clark | For The Republic

HOPE — The 52nd annual Hope Heritage Days began Friday night with festival-goers enjoying food, vendors and music.

The festival continues through Sunday in downtown Hope.

Seventeen food booths are offering a wide variety of choices along with 85 merchandise vendors.

The three-day annual festival attracts as many as 30,000 visitors.

Families were touring a new interactive exhibit established in a 53-foot, double-expandable semi-trailer Friday night. Indiana Auto History on Wheels as a traveling museum that touches on the history of more than 100 Indiana automakers and manufacturers, such as Cord, Duesenberg and Studebaker.

For more photos, see Sunday’s Republic.