PHOTO GALLERY: Heritage Festival

Artisan bread-maker Scott Stager loads coal into his stove while his old-fashioned loaf bakes inside a glass jar Saturday at the Heritage Festival in Nifong Park. "The slower you allow the dough to rise, the better the loaf will taste," Stager said as he mixed ingredients for his next batch.   |  Kile Brewer

Festival-goers pass by historic buildings Saturday in Nifong Park at the Heritage Festival. The annual festival will continue Sunday with vendors, re-enactment performances and historic demonstrations.   |  Kile Brewer

Jim Two Crows Wallen gives a demonstration in full mountain man dress Saturday at the Heritage Festival in Nifong Park. Wallen is an oral historian and does shows at festivals acting as Moses, Santa, a pirate ship captain and other characters.   |  Kile Brewer

With his face painted like a tiger, Colt Coleman, 4, holds a coyote skin being sold at a Heritage Festival tent in Nifong Park on Saturday.   |  Kile Brewer

Jay Hickman plays a handmade wooden flute at the Heritage Festival in Nifong Park on Saturday. Hickman makes flutes using the same techniques Native Americans used hundreds of years ago.   |  Kile Brewer

Jay Hickman picks up a handmade flute to play for attendees of the Heritage Festival on Saturday in Nifong Park. Using Native American techniques, Hickman takes about three weeks to finish the flutes.   |  Kile Brewer