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Driftless Area

Art Festival

Sept 19-20, 2009

 

Crawford County

Celebrates

Sept 18-20, 2009

 

Kickapoo BRAVE Bicycle Ride

Sept 19, 2009

 

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Crawford County Celebrates...

September 18-20, 2009

 

Held in conjunction with the Driftless Area Art Festival, Crawford County Celebrates spans the entire county as communities add a bit of local flavor to your weekend activities. While traveling the scenic roads of Crawford County, you can sample a taste from each venue, including: an art tour, Amish craft market, classic car rally, bicycle ride, harvest dinner, and much more. 

Weekend Events:

Prime Sponsor:

Weekend Schedule:

Friday, Sept 18

 

 

all day

 

Quilt Display, Blackhawk Avenue & Blackhawk Junction, Prairie du Chien

9:00 - 4:00

 

Cannons & Redcoats, Fort Crawford Museum, Prairie du Chien

Saturday, Sept 19

 

 

all day

 

Quilt Display, Blackhawk Avenue & Blackhawk Junction, Prairie du Chien

9:00 am

 

Start, Kickapoo BRAVE Ride, Riverside Park, Gays Mills

9:00 - 4:00

 

Amish Market in the Park, Sugar Creek Park, Ferryville

9:00 - 4:00

 

Cannons & Redcoats, Fort Crawford Museum, Prairie du Chien

10:00 - 5:00

 

Driftless Area Art Festival, Beauford T. Anderson Park, Soldiers Grove

10:00 - 1:00

 

Classic Car Rally, Riverfront Park, Wauzeka

10:00 - 12:00

 

Performance by Kickapoo Valley Chautauqua

Beauford T. Anderson Park, Soldiers Grove

11:00 - 1:00

 

Music by Ken Megal, Sugar Creek Park, Ferryville

12:30 - 2:00

 

Performance by Andreas Transo, Beauford T. Anderson Park, Soldiers Grove

12:45 pm   50/50 Drawing, Riverfront Park, Wauzeka

1:00 pm

 

Start, Classic Car Tour of Crawford County, Wauzeka

2:00 pm

 

Storyteller Nelson Richardson, Sugar Creek Park, Ferryville

3:00 - 5:00

 

Performance by Sobrevida, Beauford T. Anderson Park, Soldiers Grove

4:30 - 9:00

 

Harvest Dinner, Riverside Park, Gays Mills

4:30 - 6:30

 

Music by Tim and the Floppy Cowboys, Riverfront Park, Gays Mills

4:30 - 7:30

 

Villa Louis Art in the Evening (reservations required), Villa Louis, Prairie du Chien

7:00 - 9:00

 

Music by Pie City Twisters, Riverfront Park, Gays Mills

Sunday, Sept 20

 

 

all day

 

Quilt Display, Blackhawk Avenue & Blackhawk Junction, Prairie du Chien

10:00 - 4:00

 

Driftless Area Art Festival, Beauford T. Anderson Park, Soldiers Grove

10:00 - 12:30

 

Music by Paul Fairchild and Readings by John Motoviloff

Beauford T. Anderson Park, Soldiers Grove

1:00 - 4:00   Performance by Patchouli, Beauford T. Anderson Park, Soldiers Grove
     
   

Villa Louis Art in the Evening

Cannons & Redcoats

Quilt Show

Prairie du Chien

 

An evening tour will take an intimate look at treasures from the Villa Louis’ extensive art collection.  Reservations are required.    The historic Villa Louis mansion is the centerpiece of a grand Victorian estate built by the family of Hercules Dousman, a frontier entrepreneur who amassed a fortune in the fur trade and other frontier investments. The mansion has just undergone a top-to-bottom documentary restoration that has returned the Dousman home to the splendor of its 1890s heyday.

The Prairie du Chien Museum at Fort Crawford will again host Cannons and Redcoats.  The event is a popular living history reenactment of frontier life in Prairie du Chien at the time of the War of 1812 under the British.  Additionally, the Downtown will sponsor a Quilt Show, as businesses along Blackhawk Avenue will have quilts displayed in their windows on Friday, Saturday & Sunday. 

 

Co-Sponsored by:

Prairie du Chien

Tourism Council

 

 

Prairie du Chien

Memorial Hospital

 

Benefactors:

Howe Printing

Friday, Sept 18

all day

Quilt Display, Blackhawk Avenue & Blackhawk Junction

9:00 - 4:00

Cannons & Redcoats, Fort Crawford Museum

Saturday, Sept 19

all day

Quilt Display, Blackhawk Avenue & Blackhawk Junction

9:00 - 4:00

Cannons & Redcoats, Fort Crawford Museum

5:00 - 7:30

Art in the Evening, Tours run every 30 minutes, Villa Louis Historic Site

Reservations are required (adults only).

Sunday, Sept 20

all day

Quilt Display, Blackhawk Avenue & Blackhawk Junction

     

Classic Car Rally

River Front Park, Wauzeka

The first-annual Wauzeka Classic Car Rally will feature classic automobiles of various vintage and models.  A showing of all cars will take place at the River Front Park in Wauzeka between 11 am and 1 pm.  Door prizes will be given to entrants and the Wauzeka Lion’s Club will have a food and beverage stand for participants and spectators.  A Classic Car tour of Crawford County will begin at 1 pm, featuring a tour through the Driftless region to other events around the County.

 

 

Sponsored by:

   

 

Benefactors:

People's State Bank

Saturday, Sept 19
10:00 - 1:00 Classic cars on display
10:00 - 1:00 Lions Club Food Booth
1:00 pm Classic car tour of Crawford County

 

Amish Market in the Park

Sugar Creek Park, Ferryville

 

The market offers Amish craft items such as baskets, quilts, small furniture, throw rugs, toys, baked goods; and other products such as garden plants, nursery items, home made preserves, and flea market items.  The event will also feature a storyteller, music, and food.  The Amish Market is an expanded version of the Market in the Park held each Saturday from May through October in Sugar Creek Park.

 

 

Co-Sponsored by:

Ferryville Tourism Council

 

Benefactors:

River Bank

Wooden Nickel Saloon

Saturday, Sept 19

9:00 - 4:00 Amish Market in the Park
9:00 - 4:00 Food Vendors - fried desserts, barbequed beef
11:00 - 1:00 Music by Ken Megal

2:00 pm

Storytelling by Nelson Richardson

     

Kickapoo BRAVE Ride and Harvest Dinner

Riverside Park, Gays Mills

 

The Kickapoo BRAVE Ride (Bluffs, Rivers, And Valley Event) will feature bicycle rides coursing through the scenic landscapes of the Driftless area in Crawford County.  The Ride will offer both the physical challenge of climbing the numerous hills of Crawford County; and the visual rewards of cresting a hill or coasting along the river valleys.  The Ride will include two options: a shorter 20-mile route in the valley to the Driftless Area Art Festival in Soldiers Grove and back; and a 100-kilometer route that takes riders out of the valley and along the ridge tops to the Mississippi River, including the Amish Market in the Park at Ferryville.

Registration and more information

 

Saturday evening, the County will celebrate a Harvest Dinner in Gays Mills.  The dinner, offering locally grown and produced foods, begins at 4:30 pm at the riverfront park, giving Brave Ride participants an opportunity to dine after completing their ride.  The dinner menu will feature fresh, seasonal foods grown by family farmers and catered by the Driftless Cafe, as well as breads, deserts, and wines from around the Driftless region. Live entertainment will begin at 4:30 pm.

 

Co-Sponsored by:

 

 

 

Gays Mills

Economic Development Association

 

Benefactors:

Murray Construction & Woodworking

Driftless Design

Kickapoo Locker Service

Saturday, Sept 19

7:00 am Registration opens
8:45 am Welcome/ Orientation
9:00 am Ride begins from Riverside Park (new location)
3:00 - 5:00 Beverages and Appetizers from Local Producers: cheese, apples, fish, vegetables
4:30 - 9:00 Harvest Dinner at Riverside Park
4:30 - 6:30 Music by Tim and the Floppy Cowboys
7:00 - 9:00 Music by Pie City Twisters

 

 

 

Driftless Area Art Festival

Beauford T. Anderson Park, Soldiers Grove

 

The Driftless area, a unique region that escaped the glaciers of the ice age, is an inspirational setting to many talented artists and artisans.  Its hills and valleys are home to painters and potters, woodworkers and weavers, musicians and metalsmiths. 

 

To see the breadth and variety of their creations, you usually have to visit studios, stores and galleries across the area.  But once a year in September, these artists gather together in Crawford County, Wisconsin, at the Driftless Area Art Festival.

 

 www.driftlessareaartfestival.com

 

Presenting Partner:

 

Performing Arts Partner:

 

Reception Partners:

 

Village of Soldiers Grove

and

Soldiers Grove

Community

Development 

Corporation

 

 

Saturday, Sept 19

10:00 am Festival Grounds Open

10:00 - 12:00

Kickapoo Valley Chautauqua

12:30 - 2:00

Andreas Transo

3:00 - 5:00

Sobrevida

Sunday, Sept 20

10:00 am

Festival Grounds Open

10:00 - 12:30

Music by Paul Fairchild

Readings by John Motoviloff

1:00 - 4:00 Patchouli

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Front cover and majority of photos throughout this site - courtesy of Larry Knutson Photography. Bicycling photos courtesy of Jerry Quebe, Diane Craig, Mark Drake, and Patti Wacker.  Gays Mills Orchard photo - courtesy of Marlene Meyer. Kickapoo Cavern photo - courtesy of Delores Gaidowski. Log Cabin-Heritage Park photo - courtesy of Betty France, while other photos are unknown.

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