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Herring Run Festival 2015 in Middleboro MA

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The 2nd Annual Herring Run Festival will be held on Saturday and Sunday, April 11and 12 from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. daily at Oliver Mill Park on Route 44 in Middleboro.  It is a great family friendly festival that will have food, kid activities, live music  and craft fair. (Come see our friends  LMP soap works plus many other great local vendors)

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Educational resources at the festival will include a Civil War encampment exhibit, lectures from local historian Ted Eayrs, and booths for the Middleborough-Lakeville Herring Fishery Commission, Conservation Commission, Mass. Maritime Fisheries, The Nature Conservancy, Buzzard’s Bay Coalition, New England Coastal Wildlife Alliance, and other groups, to pass out literature and share knowledge with visitors directly.
“The Middleborough-Lakeville Herring Fishery Commission will have a table there with educational information about the herring migration and will also have video footage of herring swimming through the ladder, courtesy of the Mass. Marine Fisheries video counting project,” Middleborough-Lakeville Herring Fishery Commission chair Dave Cavanaugh said. “We certainly hope to contact many visitors and be available to provide educational material and answer all questions.”