Fallout from the Covid: the heritage festival postponed to spring

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HUNTSVILLE – The date had been set and the plans had been made, but Covid-19 had other ideas.

For the second year in a row, the Scott County Heritage Festival will not be taking place. Festival organizers made the decision on Friday to postpone the event, which is hosted by the Museum of Scott County on the Scott High School campus, with the hope of having it in the spring of 2022.

Like most other local events, the Heritage Festival was canceled in 2020 amid the first wave of Covid-19. However, after cases declined earlier this year, the festival was scheduled for September 25.

That was before a second wave of the virus hit. As of Thursday, there were 357 active cases of covid in Scott County. Scott High School principal Melissa Rector told the Board of Education at its Thursday afternoon meeting that a decision on whether to continue the festival will be made on Friday. While the school was ready to move forward with the festival, Rector said, they did not want to do anything that would be against the wishes of the board or the community and was gathering feedback on whether to proceed.

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It is not only community cases of Covid-19 that are of concern. The Heritage Festival is a student-run event that is planned, organized and executed by the school’s student body. As of Thursday, nearly 13% of all students at the school were either in isolation due to active covid cases or in quarantine due to exposure. The rector expected that number to increase on Friday and said trends in the number of students absent from school were getting worse, not improving.

The rector also said on Thursday that a final decision must be made on the festival now, as the date is only two weeks away and many attendees are ready to make the purchases they need for the festival.

Other events that have been scheduled for the fall are still relevant, at least for now. This includes the Brimstone Paragon Event and the Big South Fork Haunting in the Hills Storytelling Festival, both scheduled for next weekend. The drop on the Scott County Chamber of Commerce Mall is scheduled for October 23.

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