Paths to Peacestock is an afternoon celebration of peace and music, featuring singer/songwriter Larry Long. The event takes place from 1 to 5 p.m. Saturday at Edgewater Park. Admission is free.

Long is a Smithsonian Folkways recording artist whose music is dedicated to celebrating diversity and justice. He is the founder of Community Celebration of Place, a nonprofit organization that works with communities to use music, performance, art and oral history to bring together children, elders, and people of different backgrounds to honor and celebrate commonalities and differences. Other acts include Adam Hammer, Jeshua Erickson, Geneva Witnesses, Northern Lights, and Choreographed for Perfection.

On display during the event will be The American Friends Service Committee traveling exhibition: &8220;Eyes Wide Open: The Cost of War.&8221; This exhibition honors fallen U.S. military personnel and Iraqi civilians.

&8220;Eyes Wide Open: The Cost of War to Minnesota&8221; focuses on the specific costs of war to the state of Minnesota. The exhibit includes 61 pairs of boots representing fallen servicemen and women from Minnesota, and a visual representation of the Iraqi civilian casualties. This exhibit is part of AFSC&8217;s national &8220;Eyes Wide Open: The Human Cost of War&8221; network.

AFSC, an international social justice organization, created &8220;Eyes Wide Open&8221; to illustrate the lives lost in the war in Iraq. It first opened in Chicago&8217;s Federal Plaza with more than 500 pairs of boots in January 2004. The national exhibit was last displayed on Memorial Day weekend 2007 with over 3,400 pairs of boots. This was the last time that the entire death toll was represented in one location. Since then the exhibition has been divided into state displays and traveled throughout the nation to smaller cities and towns.

All the state exhibits combined now include more than 4,000 pairs of combat boots representing U.S. military casualties, along with a memorial to the tens of thousands of Iraqi civilians who have been killed in the conflict.

The Saturday event is sponsored by Paths to Peace in Freeborn County, whose Web site is www.freebornpeace.org.