Weekend Fest Offers New Educational Aspects
July 28, 2016 at 4:25 p.m.
This year's Back To The Days festival will include numerous minor changes aimed at enhancing an already popular fall activity.
Some of the changes in the seventh annual event set for this weekend at Lucerne Park in Warsaw will focus on education.
The fest this year will include a children's venue that will feature a storyteller who will relive the revolutionary time period. Another speaker will focus on the history of Thaddeus Kosciuszko, a volunteer from Poland who helped force the surrender of 6,000 British troops at the battle of Saratoga in 1776.
Another man will talk about common types of punishment such as the classic pillory, often referred to as the stocks, that held a man's head and hands in place.
Another new highlight this year will be the fashion revue in which examples of period dress will be critiqued for authenticity. The show is set for 2 p.m. Saturday and participants will help exemplify for spectators what is proper and improper, said Joann Kolbe, one of the event organizers.
More than 400 re-enactors will be joined by 20 to 25 vendors who will turn Lucerne Park into a blast from the past to the historic days of the Revolutionary War.
This year's festival will include new activities geared toward the kick-off Saturday morning.
A parade starting at Central Park will begin at 9 a.m. and include plenty of re-enactors and fife and bugle. At 10 a.m., Warsaww Mayor Ernie Wiggins will help kick off the festival with a ribbon cutting at Lucerne Park.
Miss Kosciusko County, Erin Cassidente, will participate in the morning activities as well.
The traditional ball has been altered slightly, too.
The Saturday night event this year at the Pete Thorn Center Gym will feature fanciful hats instead a masquerade theme. Costume dress will be optional. A raffle has also been incorporated into the ball. Among the handful of unique prizes will be a handmade copper teapot.
Last year, the festival adjusted its schedule from mid-October to late September. The three-week change worked last year and will likely remain because weather in late October is colder and too unpredictable, Kolbe said. [[In-content Ad]]
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This year's Back To The Days festival will include numerous minor changes aimed at enhancing an already popular fall activity.
Some of the changes in the seventh annual event set for this weekend at Lucerne Park in Warsaw will focus on education.
The fest this year will include a children's venue that will feature a storyteller who will relive the revolutionary time period. Another speaker will focus on the history of Thaddeus Kosciuszko, a volunteer from Poland who helped force the surrender of 6,000 British troops at the battle of Saratoga in 1776.
Another man will talk about common types of punishment such as the classic pillory, often referred to as the stocks, that held a man's head and hands in place.
Another new highlight this year will be the fashion revue in which examples of period dress will be critiqued for authenticity. The show is set for 2 p.m. Saturday and participants will help exemplify for spectators what is proper and improper, said Joann Kolbe, one of the event organizers.
More than 400 re-enactors will be joined by 20 to 25 vendors who will turn Lucerne Park into a blast from the past to the historic days of the Revolutionary War.
This year's festival will include new activities geared toward the kick-off Saturday morning.
A parade starting at Central Park will begin at 9 a.m. and include plenty of re-enactors and fife and bugle. At 10 a.m., Warsaww Mayor Ernie Wiggins will help kick off the festival with a ribbon cutting at Lucerne Park.
Miss Kosciusko County, Erin Cassidente, will participate in the morning activities as well.
The traditional ball has been altered slightly, too.
The Saturday night event this year at the Pete Thorn Center Gym will feature fanciful hats instead a masquerade theme. Costume dress will be optional. A raffle has also been incorporated into the ball. Among the handful of unique prizes will be a handmade copper teapot.
Last year, the festival adjusted its schedule from mid-October to late September. The three-week change worked last year and will likely remain because weather in late October is colder and too unpredictable, Kolbe said. [[In-content Ad]]