 Apple Shop in Whitesburg is gearing up for the 30th annual Sea Time on the Cumberland. Sea Time is a traditional mountain arts festival with local showcases of art, music, crafts, performances, and readings. Typically the festival is contained to the parking lot of Apple Shop, but being the 30th year, organizers wanted to branch out and allow participants to have a new experience. We're having a lot of events off-site as well as on-site, so spreading out into town. And also, a lot of our sponsors are local businesses, so they're going to have live music play in their spaces as well. Along with live music at local businesses and the festival, workshops will be held throughout the day at nearby places. We're trying to get a lot of traffic, not just through here, but to go back and forth and just flow through town. Organizers believe the festival is a way to learn about the culture throughout eastern Kentucky. Being able to engage with regional arts and artists, I think that's the big thing is that it's an inviting space, it's an engaging space, and people can come here and really experience what's happening in the arts in east Kentucky. The Letcher County Farmers Market will jumpstart the weekend today with feed time on the Cumberland, while seed time on the Cumberland will kick off tomorrow at five and last throughout the weekend. For a schedule of events, log on to seedtimefestival.org. Reporting in Weizberg for EKB News, I'm Shelby Steele.