 Highlights will include more than 25 live musical performances, many
from groups who appear nationally. The entertainment is billed as
"The best four-day, live music schedule this side of the Mississippi
River." A professional sound stage will be brought in for the event.
Also scheduled are many entertainment acts for adults and
children, living history demonstrations, Revolutionary and Civil War
firearms loading and firing demonstrations, and bow and arrow
demonstrations.
Artist Marilyn Daleburn of Prospect Heights will mount an exhibit
of her needlepoint replicas of presidents' homes at the Mount
Pulaski Historical Museum on the south side of the square throughout
the festival. Visitors will receive an informational brochure.
Daleburn, who is remarkable for her knowledge of presidents'
homes, has created more than 125 houses, but due to space
limitations will bring only a select few. They will include the
homes of Lincoln, Jefferson, Washington, Kennedy and unique
structures such as the home of John Tyler. She will also bring her
recently completed replica of New Salem.
Contests include gun shooting, a tomahawk throw and horseshoe
contests for all ages.
Catered meals will be available, as will several catering wagons.
The United Methodist Church will serve homemade ice cream and pies,
and St. John's Church will provide a corn dog tent. Pizza Man and
Buff's Restaurant will be open during the entire weekend. Bar
service will be provided by Mount Pulaski American Legion Post 447.
Historians Paul Beaver and Guy Fraker will give lectures, and the
Mount Pulaski Courthouse and Mount Pulaski Historical Museum will be
open for tours.
The 175th Anniversary Committee will host dinners and
entertainment in the Alumni Tent for Mount Pulaski High School
classes from three generations on three separate evenings. The
deadline for purchasing tickets was June 15.
Free golf cart shuttle service will be provided from parking lots
at the American Legion, high school, Frazier Park and Mount Pulaski
Grade School.
Professional photographers and videographers will be on-site for
the festivities.
Lodging options throughout Logan County are available, including
Lincoln and Atlanta. More information on hotels can be found at
www.abe66.com.
Thursday, June 30
- Festivities will begin with a
reception scheduled from 6:30 to 10 p.m. Thursday at the Abraham
Lincoln Presidential Museum in Springfield. First Citizen Award
recipients will be honored. Bus tickets are available for $3 each.
Reservations can be made by calling Salt Creek Attic at
217-792-5117.
Friday, July 1
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A
golf outing for adults will take place between 8 a.m. and 2
p.m. at the Lincoln Elks Country Club.
-
The famous Wall Dogs painters will work on a
mural at the
southeast corner of Cooke and Lafayette streets between 8 a.m. and 8
p.m. Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Work will continue from 11 a.m. to
8 p.m. Monday. All ages are welcome, and special activities will be
available for children.
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Children can look forward to "Carnival Time" in East Park from 1
to 6 p.m. Friday (and again Saturday). Entertainment will include bounce
houses, cotton candy, snow cones, games, hot dogs and bottled water,
and the swimming pool will be open. (On Saturday, face painting and
balloon making will be provided by Twinkles Co.)
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Ag equipment demonstrations and lectures on new farming
techniques will be presented from 2 to 4 p.m. Friday (and from noon
to 3 p.m. Saturday) at a site just west of Mount Pulaski Cemetery,
near the Elkhart blacktop. Interested people of all ages can depart
from the downtown Information Tent.
-
Midwest Bluegrass Festivals will provide entertainment from 1:30
to 5 p.m. Friday on the Courtyard Bandstand. Illinois Rail will
perform at 1:30 and 3:45 p.m.; The King Family will take the stage
at 2:15 and 4:25 p.m.; and Mackville will play at 3 p.m.
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St. Thomas and St. Patrick's churches will provide a
fish fry in
the air-conditioned General Food Tent from 4 to 8 p.m. Friday. Meals
are $10 per person.
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Adults can taste wine from Illinois wineries from 4 to 9 p.m.
Friday in the East Courtyard (and from 11 a.m. until 9 p.m. Saturday, 2 to 9 p.m. Sunday,
and 9 a.m. until 11 p.m. Monday).
-
The
Kevin Turner band will perform in the air-conditioned Alumni
Tent on the east side of the square from 5 to 7 p.m. Friday's
alumni
event will honor graduates from the 1930s through the 1960s. The tent will open at 5
p.m. with a
social hour. Dinner service will begin at 6 p.m. and live
entertainment will begin at 9 p.m.
-
Children's activities will take place from 7 to 9 p.m. Friday on
Youth Avenue, on the north side of the square.
-
Living history demonstrations are scheduled in the Courtyard from
5 to 8 p.m. Friday (and from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday, 10 a.m. to
8 p.m. Sunday, and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday).
-
An Abraham Lincoln interpreter will be on the downtown square
from 5 to 9 p.m. Friday (and from noon to 7 p.m. Saturday).
-
On the Washington Street Stage,
176 Keys Dueling Pianos will play
from 6 to 8 p.m.
-
Teens can sign up for "Pulaski's Got Talent," which will take
place on Youth Avenue from 7 to 9 p.m. Friday. A comedian and DJ
will provide entertainment at the same location from 9 p.m. until
midnight on Friday and Saturday.
-
Sumthin' Different will play on the Lafayette Square Stage from 8
until 8:45 p.m. Friday, and Grove Daddies will play there from 9:15
p.m. until midnight.
Saturday, July 2
-
Saturday's activities will begin with a
pancake breakfast
sponsored by First Christian Church in the General Food Tent from 7
to 10 a.m.
-
Harry Hild's Band will play on the Washington Street Stage from
8:30 to 9:30 a.m. Saturday. Parade recognition of descendants of the
city's founders will follow on the stage between 9:30 and 10 a.m.
Jennifer Wernsing will sing the national anthem.
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The "Life on the Hill Parade" will wind from Wayne Street up
Washington Street to Maple Street between 10 and 11 a.m.
-
Living history demonstrations
are scheduled in the Courtyard from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday
(also 10 a.m. to
8 p.m. Sunday and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday).
-
Adults can taste wine from Illinois wineries from 11 a.m. until 9 p.m. Saturday in the East Courtyard.
-
Antique firearms and bows and arrows will be demonstrated on the
Washington Street Stage between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m.
-
A tomahawk throw will take place behind the Lafayette Square
Stage between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m.
-
Music from
Midwest Bluegrass Festivals will return to the Courtyard
Bandstand between 11 a.m. and 5 p.m. Saturday. Chris Talle Trio will
play at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m.; Bluegrass Blondies will entertain at
11:45 a.m. and 2:45 p.m.; the Pickin' Chicks are scheduled at 12:30
and 3:30 p.m.; and Rural Kings will play at 1:15 and 4:15 p.m.
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(Saturday events
continued)
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Ag
equipment demonstrations and lectures on new farming techniques
will be presented from noon
to 3 p.m. Saturday at a site just west of Mount Pulaski Cemetery,
near the Elkhart blacktop. Interested people of all ages can depart
from the downtown Information Tent.
-
An Abraham Lincoln interpreter will be on the downtown square
from noon to 7 p.m. Saturday.
-
Children can enjoy
"Carnival Time" in East Park from 1 to 6 p.m. Saturday. Entertainment will include bounce
houses, cotton candy, snow cones, games, hot dogs and bottled water,
and the swimming pool will be open. Face painting and
balloon making will be provided by Twinkles Co.
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An
Old Settlers Tour, featuring frontier family gravesites from
Revolutionary War days onward, will take place at Steenbergen
Cemetery from 1 to 3 p.m. Saturday (and again from 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday).
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Historians Guy Fraker and Paul Beaver will give a program at the
Veterans of Foreign Wars Hall between 1 and 4 p.m. Saturday. At 1
p.m., Fraker will speak about the Illinois 8th Judicial Circuit
through Mount Pulaski. At 2 p.m., Beaver will give a talk about
Abraham Lincoln in Mount Pulaski. The two will form a panel from 3
to 4 p.m. to discuss their topics and field questions from the
audience.
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An old-fashioned gun registration will take place for adults at
1:30 p.m. at Frazier Park. An old-fashioned gun shoot is scheduled
from 2 to 4 p.m. off Spring Street between Cooke Street and Route
54.
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A children's scavenger hunt is set for 2 to 4 p.m. Saturday on
Youth Avenue.
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Chris Vallillo will perform ballads and tell stories in the
General Food Tent between 2 and 3 p.m.
-
PACE will serve a Polish sausage dinner in the General Food Tent
from 4 to 8 p.m. Saturday. Meals are $10 per person.
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A style show will be presented from 5 to 6 p.m. on the Courtyard
Bandstand.
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Magician Mitch Williams will perform around the square from 6:30
to 7:30 p.m. and on Youth Avenue on the north side of the square
from 8 to 9 p.m.
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A
reunion dinner for classes from the 1970s through the 1980s
will be in the Alumni Tent from 5 to 9 p.m. The tent will open with a
social hour. Dinner service will begin at 6 and live
entertainment at 9.
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The Horn Dogs, who are Quincy music teachers, will perform on the
Lafayette Square Stage from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
-
Chris Vallillo will play 1800s ballads and tell stories on Youth Avenue
between 6:30 and 7:30 p.m. Saturday.
-
On the Lafayette Square Stage,
176 Keys Dueling Pianos
will appear from 9 p.m. until midnight.
Sunday, July 3
-
Living history demonstrations
are scheduled in the Courtyard from 10 a.m. to
8 p.m. Sunday (and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday).
-
A community choir will perform during a
heritage service
by the flagpole in the Courtyard between noon and 12:30 p.m.
Sunday.
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A community potluck dinner will take place in the General Food
Tent from 12:30 to 2 p.m.
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Vonderlieth Living Center will host seniors in the
air-conditioned Alumni Tent between 1 and 3 p.m. A movie will be
shown, and attendees can reminisce about the history of Mount
Pulaski.
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An
Old Settlers Tour, featuring frontier family gravesites from
Revolutionary War days onward, will take place at Steenbergen
Cemetery from 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday.
-
Midwest Bluegrass Festivals will take to the Courtyard Bandstand
again Sunday from 2 to 6 p.m. New Heir Bluegrass will play at 2 and
4 p.m.; the Templeton Family will perform at 2:40 and 4:40 p.m.; and
New Blood Bluegrass will play at 3:20 and 5:20 p.m.
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Adults can taste wine from Illinois wineries 2 to 9 p.m. Sunday in the East Courtyard.
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Zion Lutheran Church will serve a
pork chop dinner in the General
Food Tent from 4 to 8 p.m. Sunday. Meals are $10 per person.
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Classes from the 1990s through the 2000s will have their
reunion
dinner in the Alumni Tent from 5 to 9 p.m. The tent will open with a
social hour. Dinner service will begin at 6 and live
entertainment at 9.
-
A community band will present a concert on the Washington Street
Stage from 6 to 7 p.m. Sunday.
-
Sojourn Band will play on the Lafayette Square Stage from 6:30 to
8:30 p.m. Sunday, and Highway J will perform there from 9 p.m. until
midnight.
Monday, July 4
-
On the Fourth of July, a flea market will run from 8 a.m. to 4
p.m. in East Park.
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Adults can taste wine from Illinois wineries
from 9 a.m. until 11 p.m. Monday in the East Courtyard.
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Living history demonstrations
are scheduled in the Courtyard from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday.
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VFW members will serve a chicken dinner in the General Food Tent
from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Monday. Meals are $10 per person.
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Midwest Bluegrass Festivals
bands performing on Monday will be Curreykorn at noon and 2:30
p.m., Flat Mountain at 12:50 and 3:20 p.m., and The Sterlings at
1:40 and 4:10 p.m. They will all appear on the Courtyard Bandstand.
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The
Wall Dogs mural will be dedicated at the southeast corner of
Cooke and Lafayette streets at 8 p.m. Monday.
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The
Fireside Relics
band will play at Frazier Park from 7 to 9
p.m. The park is off Spring Street, north of the railroad tracks
between the high school and Route 54.
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The Founders Day Festival will conclude with a fireworks display
at Frazier Park between 9 and 11 p.m.
The yearlong anniversary celebration will continue with the
annual Mount Pulaski Fall Festival on Sept. 8-10. Christmas on
Vinegar Hill is scheduled for Nov. 18-19.
For updates and more information about the celebration, visit
www.mtpulaskiil.com and
http://www.mtpulaski175th.net/.
[By NANCY SAUL,
Abraham Lincoln Tourism Bureau of
Logan County]
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