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Crawford County Celebrates...
September 18-20, 2009
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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
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Prime Sponsor:
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Weekend Schedule:
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Friday, Sept 18 |
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all day |
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Quilt Display, Blackhawk Avenue & Blackhawk Junction, Prairie du Chien |
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9:00
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Cannons & Redcoats, Fort Crawford Museum, Prairie du Chien |
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Saturday, Sept 19 |
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all day |
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Quilt Display, Blackhawk Avenue & Blackhawk Junction, Prairie du Chien |
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9:00
am |
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Start, Kickapoo BRAVE Ride, Riverside Park, Gays Mills |
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9:00
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Amish Market in the Park, Sugar Creek Park, Ferryville |
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9:00
- 4:00 |
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Cannons & Redcoats, Fort Crawford Museum, Prairie du Chien |
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10:00 - 5:00 |
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Driftless Area Art Festival, Beauford T. Anderson Park, Soldiers Grove |
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10:00 - 1:00 |
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Classic Car Rally, Riverfront Park, Wauzeka |
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10:00 - 12:00 |
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Performance by
Kickapoo Valley Chautauqua
Beauford T. Anderson Park, Soldiers Grove |
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11:00 - 1:00 |
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Music by Ken Megal, Sugar Creek Park, Ferryville |
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12:30 - 2:00 |
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Performance by Andreas Transo, Beauford T. Anderson Park, Soldiers Grove |
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12:45 pm |
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50/50 Drawing, Riverfront Park, Wauzeka |
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1:00
pm |
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Start, Classic Car Tour of Crawford County, Wauzeka |
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2:00
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Storyteller Nelson Richardson, Sugar Creek Park, Ferryville |
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3:00
- 5:00 |
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Performance by Sobrevida, Beauford T. Anderson Park, Soldiers Grove |
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4:30 - 9:00 |
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Harvest Dinner, Riverside Park, Gays Mills |
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4:30 - 6:30 |
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Music by Tim and the Floppy Cowboys, Riverfront Park, Gays Mills |
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4:30 - 7:30 |
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Villa Louis Art in the Evening (reservations required), Villa Louis,
Prairie du Chien |
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7:00
- 9:00 |
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Music by Pie City Twisters, Riverfront Park, Gays Mills |
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Sunday, Sept 20 |
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all day |
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Quilt Display, Blackhawk Avenue & Blackhawk Junction, Prairie du Chien |
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10:00 - 4:00 |
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Driftless Area Art Festival, Beauford T. Anderson Park, Soldiers Grove |
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10:00 - 12:30 |
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Music by Paul Fairchild and Readings by John Motoviloff
Beauford T. Anderson Park, Soldiers Grove |
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1:00 - 4:00 |
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Performance by Patchouli, Beauford T. Anderson Park, Soldiers Grove |
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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.
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Co-Sponsored by:
Prairie du Chien
Tourism Council
Prairie du Chien
Memorial Hospital
Benefactors:
Howe Printing |
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Friday, Sept 18 |
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all day |
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Quilt Display, Blackhawk Avenue & Blackhawk Junction |
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9:00 - 4:00 |
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Cannons & Redcoats, Fort Crawford Museum |
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Saturday, Sept 19 |
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all day |
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Quilt Display, Blackhawk Avenue & Blackhawk Junction |
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9:00 - 4:00 |
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Cannons & Redcoats, Fort Crawford Museum |
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5:00 - 7:30 |
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Art in the Evening, Tours run every 30 minutes,
Villa Louis Historic Site
Reservations are required (adults only). |
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Sunday, Sept 20 |
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all day |
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Quilt Display, Blackhawk Avenue & Blackhawk Junction |
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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.
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Sponsored by:
Benefactors:
People's State Bank
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Saturday, Sept 19 |
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10:00 - 1:00 |
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Classic cars on display |
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10:00 - 1:00 |
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Lions Club Food Booth |
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1:00 pm |
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Classic car tour of Crawford County |
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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.
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Co-Sponsored by:
Ferryville Tourism Council
Benefactors:
River Bank
Wooden Nickel Saloon |
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Saturday, Sept 19 |
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9:00 - 4:00 |
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Amish Market in the Park |
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9:00 - 4:00 |
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Food Vendors - fried desserts, barbequed beef |
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11:00 - 1:00 |
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Music by Ken Megal |
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2:00 pm |
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Storytelling by Nelson Richardson |
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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.
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Co-Sponsored by:
Gays Mills
Economic Development Association
Benefactors:
Murray Construction & Woodworking
Driftless Design
Kickapoo Locker Service |
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Saturday, Sept 19 |
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7:00 am |
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Registration opens |
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8:45 am |
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Welcome/ Orientation |
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9:00 am |
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Ride begins from Riverside Park (new
location) |
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3:00 - 5:00 |
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Beverages and Appetizers from Local
Producers: cheese, apples, fish, vegetables |
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4:30 - 9:00 |
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Harvest Dinner at Riverside Park |
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4:30 - 6:30 |
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Music by
Tim and the Floppy Cowboys |
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7:00 - 9:00 |
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Music by Pie City Twisters
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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
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Presenting Partner:
Performing Arts Partner:
Reception Partners:
Village of Soldiers
Grove
and
Soldiers Grove
Community
Development
Corporation
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Saturday, Sept 19 |
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10:00 am |
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Festival Grounds Open |
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10:00 - 12:00 |
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Kickapoo Valley Chautauqua |
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12:30 - 2:00 |
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Andreas Transo |
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3:00 - 5:00 |
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Sobrevida |
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Sunday, Sept 20 |
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10:00 am |
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Festival Grounds Open |
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10:00 - 12:30 |
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Music by Paul Fairchild
Readings by John Motoviloff |
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1:00 - 4:00 |
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Patchouli |
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