The popular Lands End Woodland River Festival on St. Helena Island has been cancelled. Bringing fun and celebrating the history of the Lands End area, organizers have decided to cancel this year’s event, scheduled for Labor Day Weekend.
“Out of an abundance of caution and heeding the health mandates issued by state and local governments to contain the COVID-19, the 15th Lands End Woodland River Festival scheduled for September 4-5, 2020 has been cancelled,” the festival committee said in a press release.
Organizers plan to host the event again on September 3-4, 2021.
The festival is a two‑day family friendly, cultural event, celebrating the ancestry of the 47 Gullah families who pooled their money together and purchased 328 acres of land at Lands End on St. Helena Island in the 1920’s.
Families on the Island wanted a place to have fun, fish, hunt, chop wood for kindling, and bury their family members; not to mention to be able to have a legacy for future descendants and for the land to be carried down through the decades. They called themselves the Woodland Club and held events to raise money to pay the property taxes over the remainder of the 20th Century.
The River Festival is an annual Labor Day weekend favorite for residents and visitors looking to enjoy cultural festivities along with the rich history of St. Helena Island.
