Annual Sugar Cane Festival Car Show

The Sugar Cane Festival brings two days of heritage demonstrations, cook-offs and a car show to Historic White Springs. The festival runs Friday, Nov. 13, from 5 to 10 p.m. and Saturday, Nov. 14, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Suwannee Hardware & Feed, 10572 Bridge Street. Admission is free.

Friday begins at 5 p.m. with a street dance and live music alongside the Freestyle Chicken Wing Cook-Off. Teams compete for trophies, spin a challenge wheel and raise money for a local food bank. Each team pays a $50 entry fee and may prepare as many wing styles as it wishes.

Saturday focuses on old-fashioned skills: cane grinding and syrup making, blacksmithing, butter churning, biscuits baked on a wood-burning stove, hand-cranked ice cream, and tastings of fresh cane syrup and butter. Glassblowing, goat milk soap making, beekeeping, yarn spinning, wood bowl turning, pottery and flintknapping demonstrations continue through the day, with a chainsaw sculpture artist on hand. Vintage tractors, hit-and-miss engines, clogging by the Cross Creek Cloggers and the Booger Bottom Soap Box Derby are also scheduled. More than 60 food and craft vendors and live bluegrass music fill the grounds.

The Cruise In & Show Out Car Show welcomes vintage cars and motorcycles. Registration opens at 8 a.m., and Sponsor’s Choice and People’s Choice awards are presented at 2 p.m. Door prizes and a 50/50 drawing accompany the awards. Vehicle entry is a $20 donation, and registration is required.

The Backyard BBQ Cook-Off runs Saturday. The syrup tasting contest charges $10 to enter and is limited to pure cane syrup without additives or flavorings. Suwannee Hardware & Feed occupies the restored Adams Country Store, and Precision Paint & Body sponsors the car show.