Grand Meadow Heritage Festival is this weekend
By Judy Hayworth Journal correspondent | Posted: Wednesday, September 03, 2008
WASHTA, Iowa -- The Grand Meadow Heritage Festival will begin its two-day run on Saturday at the festival site near Washta.
Organizers have scheduled lots of activities for all ages, some educational, most just fun.
"The biggest thing will be the entertainment," says festival board member Ray Todd.
There will be lots of music. Saturday's schedule has the McNeil Family at 9 a.m., Riata at 12:30 p.m., and a country barn dance featuring Hundred Proof from 8 p.m. to midnight. On Sunday will be Girlfriends at 11:30 a.m. and "Coco" Walter's tribute to Patsy Cline at 2 p.m.
Visitors can stroll around the grounds. Among the sites are the museum housed in the brick former Grand Meadow School, the Flathers log cabin that was moved to the grounds in 2007, the three schools on the site in addition to the brick school, the Stiles country school and a rare two-story school/teacherage.
The festival also includes displays of old-time farming practices such as plowing with horses and threshing grain with a steam engine, the oats donated by Bill Sokoloski.
The newest addition to the grounds is an an 8-foot by 8-foot barn quilt in the "Eastern Star" pattern. Helen Townsend, Janet Lindsay and Bea Bryant painted the reds and golds of the barn quilt after Townsend, a former mathematics teacher, drew the quilt design, using her "geometry experience," says Roy Townsend, her husband and festival board member.
Barn quilts have proved popular and spread into area counties after Kevin Peyton Jr. introduced his Sac County 4-H project intended to brighten the decor of country barns and other rural structures.
Also at the festival there will be a petting zoo, country school classes at 1 p.m. followed by country kids games at 1:30 p.m. each day. The parade, tractor parade and tractor pull are at 11 a.m. Saturday and the car show will be at 12:30 p.m. Sunday.
A repeat performance of this spring's play, "Virgil's Family Reunion," will be at 3:30 p.m. Saturday. Advance tickets will be available on the grounds, beginning at 10 a.m.
Vendors will have products on display. There is a Saturday breakfast from 7 to 9 a.m., lunch and a Sunday brunch from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. There also will be ice cream available made by Dale Harvey using a hydraulic-driven ice cream maker.
If you go
The festival admission is free both days, but donations are appreciated.
The festival is four miles west of Washta and two miles north on L36, 15 miles south of Marcus on L36, or 25 miles east of Hinton on C60 and two miles south on L36. Watch for signage.
Organizers have scheduled lots of activities for all ages, some educational, most just fun.
"The biggest thing will be the entertainment," says festival board member Ray Todd.
There will be lots of music. Saturday's schedule has the McNeil Family at 9 a.m., Riata at 12:30 p.m., and a country barn dance featuring Hundred Proof from 8 p.m. to midnight. On Sunday will be Girlfriends at 11:30 a.m. and "Coco" Walter's tribute to Patsy Cline at 2 p.m.
Visitors can stroll around the grounds. Among the sites are the museum housed in the brick former Grand Meadow School, the Flathers log cabin that was moved to the grounds in 2007, the three schools on the site in addition to the brick school, the Stiles country school and a rare two-story school/teacherage.
The festival also includes displays of old-time farming practices such as plowing with horses and threshing grain with a steam engine, the oats donated by Bill Sokoloski.
The newest addition to the grounds is an an 8-foot by 8-foot barn quilt in the "Eastern Star" pattern. Helen Townsend, Janet Lindsay and Bea Bryant painted the reds and golds of the barn quilt after Townsend, a former mathematics teacher, drew the quilt design, using her "geometry experience," says Roy Townsend, her husband and festival board member.
Barn quilts have proved popular and spread into area counties after Kevin Peyton Jr. introduced his Sac County 4-H project intended to brighten the decor of country barns and other rural structures.
Also at the festival there will be a petting zoo, country school classes at 1 p.m. followed by country kids games at 1:30 p.m. each day. The parade, tractor parade and tractor pull are at 11 a.m. Saturday and the car show will be at 12:30 p.m. Sunday.
A repeat performance of this spring's play, "Virgil's Family Reunion," will be at 3:30 p.m. Saturday. Advance tickets will be available on the grounds, beginning at 10 a.m.
Vendors will have products on display. There is a Saturday breakfast from 7 to 9 a.m., lunch and a Sunday brunch from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. There also will be ice cream available made by Dale Harvey using a hydraulic-driven ice cream maker.
If you go
The festival admission is free both days, but donations are appreciated.
The festival is four miles west of Washta and two miles north on L36, 15 miles south of Marcus on L36, or 25 miles east of Hinton on C60 and two miles south on L36. Watch for signage.
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