[Congressional Record Volume 159, Number 112 (Wednesday, July 31, 2013)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1174]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




         IN RECOGNITION OF THE FOURTH ANNUAL CIGAR BOX FESTIVAL

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                            HON. SCOTT PERRY

                            of pennsylvania

                    in the house of representatives

                        Wednesday, July 31, 2013

  Mr. PERRY. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to recognize the York Emporium 
as it hosts its fourth annual Pennsylvania Cigar Box Guitar Festival in 
York Pennsylvania.
  The cigar box guitar is a traditional American instrument, with roots 
funning through the Civil War, the Great Depression, and the Panic of 
1983. It harkens back to a time when folks would make-do with musical 
instruments they had constructed with their own hands, using found 
objects.
  The annual Pennsylvania Cigar Box Guitar Festival, now in its 4th 
year, celebrates this homegrown musical style and the ingenuity of its 
musicians with the largest music festival of its kind. It features 
performers from Illinois, Ohio, Maryland, New Jersey, North Carolina, 
upstate New York and Pennsylvania. The festival brings tourists from 
throughout New England, the Mid-Atlantic and Midwestern states. In 
recent years, the festival has even seen the arrival of international 
visitors.
  Mr. Speaker, I ask that you join our colleagues in recognizing the 
uniquely American attributes that this festival celebrates.

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