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New this year is the skateboard half pipe, popular with children and former children.

Young Jack has his life planned out -- or at least the location where it will take place. A lot of families attend NMF, and Jack's was among them.

Shannon Lay on the Boxcar Stage.

The always popular Counterfeit Madison drew a crowd to the sunny field in front of the Porch Stage Friday afternoon.

New this year is the Robbins Crossing general store, where visitors can buy handicrafts and the like as well as painkillers and bug spray and what used to be called "sundries" in the days of the general stores. Here, store employee and second-year Hocking College student Sarah Haney of Cincinnati does some last-minute stocking. The store will be open for other events at the historical site.

The first performer this year -- kind of the grand opening act -- was popular local singer-songwriter Meghan Bee, on the Boxcar Stage Thursday.

Soldiers from many wars are buried in cemeteries at The Ridges. This memorial medal marks the grave of a veteran of the Spanish-American War.

The traditional volleys were fired.