GREEN COVE SPRINGS – Spring Park was busy last Saturday with the Augusta Savage Arts Festival. Thousands of residents, art lovers and a community who embraced Savage’s artistic and civil rights work converged to the park for a day of music, show, art, food and crafts. It also capped the city’s Black History Month recognition. The festival also had arts activities and a karaoke contest, with performances by many talented groups such as the Heart and Soul Fine Arts Club, saxophonist Gerrod Kendrick, Coppergate Elementary Music and Dance, a Black Living History Wax Museum and Art Displays by Augusta Savage Mentoring Center Art Classes. The festival honors Savage’s focus on teaching children the beauty of art. She once said, “I have created nothing really beautiful, really lasting, but if I can inspire one of these youngsters to develop the talent I know they possess, then my monument will be in their work.”