WOLCOTTVILLE —
The lives of pioneers will be remembered Saturday and Sunday during the annual David Rogers Days Living History Festival.
The work and play of 1845 LaGrange County will be re-enacted in the log house village of David Rogers Memorial Park.
In 1845, LaGrange County’s boundaries were little more than a decade old. Within that 10 years, the settlers had chopped forests into homes. They had founded small industries. Food, whether garden grown or wild harvested, was stored up to last the year. And more people were coming.
According to LaGrange County parks officials, chores, work and harvest were not all they knew. They sang, danced, made items of beauty, and took advantage of times to celebrate together.
Among the pioneer home skills to be demonstrated will be weaving, running the smokehouse, making clothes, shaping iron and cooking.
There are activities to participate in, too. Hands-on stations are especially suited for young people, parks officials said, but can also be used by someone not so young. Attendees can try making a basket, decorating a tin panel, making candles and more.
Returning musicians will be Chandler Lauterbach and his Sly Run band, Liza and Mark Woolever, and Suite Strings Band. Traveling itinerants may try to get festival-goers’ attention with magic and fascinating feats, then try to sell people medicine, as the Faire Wynds Entertainers do. Faire Wynds also brings the circus — Virginia’s Vermin the Flea Circus that is.
Common Stock Entertainers wander the village peddling songs of early America and dazzling the onlookers with their treasures and curiosities from far away travels.
The world’s oldest continuously running puppet show, “The Tragical Comedy of Mr. Punch,” returns.
The pioneers enjoyed eating and Rogers Village is prepared for that, too. There will be many foods on which to feast at Rogers Village.
There is a country auction happening Saturday. Friends of LaGrange County Parks are hosting an entertaining fund raiser Saturday at 2 p.m.
David Rogers Days programs are Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., then a haystack supper break before the folk dance at 6 p.m. Programs resume Sunday from noon to 5 p.m.
Admission is $2 per person up to $10 for groups. David Rogers Memorial Park is located at 2355 W. 550 South, Wolcottville.
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