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September 19, 2008 - Earthtones Festival Celebrated on Meeting of the Great Rivers

This Saturday, September 20, celebrate the Mississippi through art, music and conservation off the Meeting of the Great Rivers byway at Riverfront Park in Alton.

Bring your family to peruse booths on river ecology, native plants and animals, and recycling, along with nature arts & crafts, and food vendors. Listen in on the live, solar-powered folk and bluegrass music playing all day. Then join Wild Trak Bikes as they lead both a 5-mile and a 40-mile bike ride. Missouri River Relief will be ferry you to islands and shorelines to pick up litter on the river or stay for the local litter clean-up around Riverfront Park & the levee trail.

For more information, call 618-463-1016.

Find out more at AllAroundAlton.

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