OSWEGO - The public will have the chance to step back in time to the days when European American frontiersmen were settling Northern Indiana Saturday at Oswego Trader Days.
The festival is aimed at giving visitors a taste of what life was like in Indiana between 1765 and 1865.
The festival will feature demonstrations of skills early settlers and native peoples used in their everyday life like blacksmith and leather work, bead craft, primitive archery, black powder shooting and tomahawk and knife throwing.Festival goers will have the chance to take an up-close look at recreations of marquees, tepees and wall tents. Contests in skillet throwing and pie eating also will be held.
Trader Days will be at 5752 N. 3rd St., Warsaw. The festival will be open Saturday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Sunday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. A community yard sale also will be held. The Oswego Lions Club will sell barbecue chicken at noon Saturday.
Saturday events are:
7 to 9 a.m. - Pancake and sausage breakfast served by Pierceton Lions at Community Building
10 a.m. - Skillet throw
11 a.m. - Black powder shoot demonstration
11 a.m. - Garden planting with the kids
1 p.m. - Pie-eating contest
1:30 p.m. - Primitive archery shoot
4 p.m. - Tomahawk and knife throw
Sunday at 1 p.m. the Mountain Man event will be held, featuring black powder shooting, archery, tomahawk and knife throwing and fire starting.
Admission is $3 for adults, $2 for children ages 7 to 12, and children younger than 7 are free.
