Your Guide to Graw Days

The Graw Days Festival is here.

The will run from the corner at Franklin Street, along St. John and Washington streets to Congress Avenue.

Patch will be situated near the corner of Washington Street and Pennington Avenue.

Stop out between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m., say hi to the Patch crew, and check out some of these great features and activities:

• A host of historians and guest speakers, including , and will be stationed at at 321 St. John St.
• The Graw Day Stage will feature music by J.D. Sage at 10 a.m., the Old Crippled & Crazy Blues at noon, the Peabody Ragtime Ensemble at 2 p.m., and the Swanee River Festival Band at 4 p.m.
• Tours of the former Graw racetrack grounds—now run by the National Guard—will be provided for $5. Children are free. Tours leave on the half hour beginning at 11:45 a.m., at the parking lot. The last tour begins at 2 p.m.
• Guests can pose with a 1940s vintage car.
• Pony rides will be offered throughout the day for $3 behind the market on Washington Street.
• Carriage rides will be offered from the corner of Congress Avenue and Washington Street for $5 per person.
• Children's activities—including sidewalk games, a moon bounce, the Ravens mascot Poe and Tales the library dog—will be situated on Congress Avenue between Union Avenue and Washington Street.
• More than 100 vendors