MANCHESTER - The American Museum of Fly Fishing would like to announce the Fifth annual Ice Cream Social on Saturday, July 14. The event is free and open to the public.

Come and enjoy free ice cream at the American Museum of Fly Fishing at 4104 Main Street in Manchester.

There will be crafts and activities for the whole family, including fly fishing demonstrations and fish related crafts.

Kids will be encouraged to take target practice with kid-sized rods, make a Clown Fly or a fish windsock, construct a practice casting rod and spend some time at our casting pond. Admission to the exhibition gallery will be half price this day only. Come view the newest exhibit: A Graceful Rise: Women in Fly Fishing Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow.

Established in 1968 in Manchester by a group of passionate anglers, the American Museum of Fly Fishing is a nationally accredited, nonprofit, educational institution. The Museum serves as a repository for and conservator to, the world's largest collection of angling and angling-related artifacts, numbering in the tens of thousands, and is one of five museums in the state of Vermont to be accredited by the American Association of Museums. The collections and exhibits document the evolution of fly fishing as a sport, art form, craft and industry in the U.S. and abroad, dating as far back as the 16th Century. Rods, reels, flies, tackle, art, photographs, manuscripts and books form the major portions of the Museum's collections.

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