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Old Florida Festival 2012

See larger Swamp cabbage and fry bread are cooked on an open fire. Thousands toured the Old Florida Festival Saturday and Sunday at the Collier County Museum, seeing living examples from every period of Florida's history. Lance Shearer/Special to the Daily News

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Swamp cabbage and fry bread are cooked on an open fire. Thousands toured the Old Florida Festival Saturday and Sunday at the Collier County Museum, seeing living examples from every period of Florida's history. Lance Shearer/Special to the Daily News

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  • Tristan Spinski/Staff Scenes from the Old Florida Festival at the Collier County Museum in Naples on Sunday afternoon. Crowds packed the Collier County Museum to watch 6,000 years of Southwest Florida's history come to life with historical re-enactments, arts and crafts, weapons demonstrations, music and food.
  • Tristan Spinski/Staff Josiah Zeitler, 6, of Naples, squirms as 'Dora' nuzzles his head during the Old Florida Festival at the Collier County Museum in Naples on Sunday afternoon. Crowds packed the Collier County Museum to watch 6,000 years of Southwest Florida's history come to life with historical re-enactments, arts and crafts, weapons demonstrations, music and food.
  • Tristan Spinski/Staff Scenes from the Old Florida Festival at the Collier County Museum in Naples on Sunday afternoon. Crowds packed the Collier County Museum to watch 6,000 years of Southwest Florida's history come to life with historical re-enactments, arts and crafts, weapons demonstrations, music and food.
  • Tristan Spinski/Staff Scenes from the Old Florida Festival at the Collier County Museum in Naples on Sunday afternoon. Crowds packed the Collier County Museum to watch 6,000 years of Southwest Florida's history come to life with historical re-enactments, arts and crafts, weapons demonstrations, music and food.
  • Tristan Spinski/Staff Scenes from the Old Florida Festival at the Collier County Museum in Naples on Sunday afternoon. Crowds packed the Collier County Museum to watch 6,000 years of Southwest Florida's history come to life with historical re-enactments, arts and crafts, weapons demonstrations, music and food.
  • Tristan Spinski/Staff Scenes from the Old Florida Festival at the Collier County Museum in Naples on Sunday afternoon. Crowds packed the Collier County Museum to watch 6,000 years of Southwest Florida's history come to life with historical re-enactments, arts and crafts, weapons demonstrations, music and food.
  • Tristan Spinski/Staff Emily Osborn, left, of Traverse City, Mich., holds her 9-month-old daughter, Ella, in close so she can pet 'Dora' during the Old Florida Festival at the Collier County Museum in Naples on Sunday afternoon. Crowds packed the Collier County Museum to watch 6,000 years of Southwest Florida's history come to life with historical re-enactments, arts and crafts, weapons demonstrations, music and food.
  • Tristan Spinski/Staff Scenes from the Old Florida Festival at the Collier County Museum in Naples on Sunday afternoon. Crowds packed the Collier County Museum to watch 6,000 years of Southwest Florida's history come to life with historical re-enactments, arts and crafts, weapons demonstrations, music and food.
  • Tristan Spinski/Staff Scenes from the Old Florida Festival at the Collier County Museum in Naples on Sunday afternoon. Crowds packed the Collier County Museum to watch 6,000 years of Southwest Florida's history come to life with historical re-enactments, arts and crafts, weapons demonstrations, music and food.
  • Union trooper Robert Burns shows his musket to Rennick, Olivia and Emilia Bruno. Thousands toured the Old Florida Festival Saturday and Sunday at the Collier County Museum, seeing living examples from every period of Florida's history. Lance Shearer/Special to the Daily News
  • Soldiers from the time of the Third Seminole War muster for a volley. Thousands toured the Old Florida Festival Saturday and Sunday at the Collier County Museum, seeing living examples from every period of Florida's history. Lance Shearer/Special to the Daily News
  • Travis Goff and Marcella Smith cook up swamp cabbage and fry bread. Thousands toured the Old Florida Festival Saturday and Sunday at the Collier County Museum, seeing living examples from every period of Florida's history. Lance Shearer/Special to the Daily News
  • Travis Goff, right, watches as the swamp cabbage and fry bread cook. Thousands toured the Old Florida Festival Saturday and Sunday at the Collier County Museum, seeing living examples from every period of Florida's history. Lance Shearer/Special to the Daily News
  • Wendy Voss demonstrates domestic arts during the Civil War. Thousands toured the Old Florida Festival Saturday and Sunday at the Collier County Museum, seeing living examples from every period of Florida's history. Lance Shearer/Special to the Daily News
  • Caleb Zeitler makes bullets of molten lead. Thousands toured the Old Florida Festival Saturday and Sunday at the Collier County Museum, seeing living examples from every period of Florida's history. Lance Shearer/Special to the Daily News
  • Capt. James Clark of the 4th US Infantry stands behind a stand of muskets. Thousands toured the Old Florida Festival Saturday and Sunday at the Collier County Museum, seeing living examples from every period of Florida's history. Lance Shearer/Special to the Daily News
  • US Navy boatswain's mate Gregory Centanne shows weapons of the Second Seminole War. Thousands toured the Old Florida Festival Saturday and Sunday at the Collier County Museum, seeing living examples from every period of Florida's history. Lance Shearer/Special to the Daily News
  • Cathy Feeney works on an 1860 Wilcox-Gibbs sewing machine. Thousands toured the Old Florida Festival Saturday and Sunday at the Collier County Museum, seeing living examples from every period of Florida's history. Lance Shearer/Special to the Daily News
  • Lee Slider portrays phrenologist Professor Fairhead. Thousands toured the Old Florida Festival Saturday and Sunday at the Collier County Museum, seeing living examples from every period of Florida's history. Lance Shearer/Special to the Daily News
  • Mountain man turned peddler Norman Bell sells old coins. Thousands toured the Old Florida Festival Saturday and Sunday at the Collier County Museum, seeing living examples from every period of Florida's history. Lance Shearer/Special to the Daily News
  • Caleb Zeitler makes bullets of molten lead. Thousands toured the Old Florida Festival Saturday and Sunday at the Collier County Museum, seeing living examples from every period of Florida's history. Lance Shearer/Special to the Daily News
  • Emma Deneke pets a friendly horse with the help of mom Sigrid. Thousands toured the Old Florida Festival Saturday and Sunday at the Collier County Museum, seeing living examples from every period of Florida's history. Lance Shearer/Special to the Daily News
  • Alicia Slavic and Angelina Osceola-Lugo push the sweep on a sugar cane grinder. Thousands toured the Old Florida Festival Saturday and Sunday at the Collier County Museum, seeing living examples from every period of Florida's history. Lance Shearer/Special to the Daily News
  • Mountain man turned peddler Norman Bell sells old coins. Thousands toured the Old Florida Festival Saturday and Sunday at the Collier County Museum, seeing living examples from every period of Florida's history. Lance Shearer/Special to the Daily News
  • Swamp cabbage and fry bread are cooked on an open fire. Thousands toured the Old Florida Festival Saturday and Sunday at the Collier County Museum, seeing living examples from every period of Florida's history. Lance Shearer/Special to the Daily News
  • Musician Bo Brewton tells the audience he still lives the pioneer life. Thousands toured the Old Florida Festival Saturday and Sunday at the Collier County Museum, seeing living examples from every period of Florida's history. Lance Shearer/Special to the Daily News

Crowds pack the Collier County Museum on Sunday afternoon for the Old Florida Festival to watch 6,000 years of Southwest Florida's history come to life with historical re-enactments, arts and crafts, weapons demonstrations, music and food.

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