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 Saturday,
September 19
Sunday, September 20, 2009
12:00 - 4:00 pm
Admission:
FREE for Members & Kids under 18
$5 for Non-member Adults*
*Become a member
at the Festival
and admission is free!
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Join
us for Chippewa Nature Center's largest festival of
the year! During this two-day event, the Nature Center
comes alive with demonstrations and programs that
focus on the autumn traditions of people in the 19th
century.
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Special
thanks to our sponsors:
 
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 Programs
at the Homestead area will include "Rambling
Naturalists" Wil and Sarah Reding as Prairie Pete
and Miss Sarah, portraying
early Michigan settlers during several shows each day.
Michigan food historian Susan Odom will demonstrate traditional apple butter making in a
giant copper kettle.
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Learn about Midland’s
logging history at the Logging Sled near the
sugarhouse.
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A team of oxen from
Tillers International will be plowing behind the
schoolhouse and you'll have a chance to help with
the process. You can also watch a three-horse team
of Belgians plowing behind the wagon barn.
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The Wigwam area will
also be alive with traditional skills by
Jim Miller, as he demonstrates ways Woodland Indians used
autumn's bounty. The Oxbow Archaeologists will
also have a display near the wigwam, where they
are currently conducting excavations at the Naugle
Site.
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Children's
activities include: |
threshing
grain
cider making
beekeeping
woodworking
wool spinning
quilting
woodstove
cooking
blacksmithing
herb-craft
traditional music |
candle
dipping
corn grinding
flailing
sorting and carding wool
yarn dolls
stenciling
stamping leather bookmarks
rope-making
schoolyard games |
Food concessions will be also be
available. Check out the latest inventory
in CNC's store in the temporary Visitor Center,
including gardening clogs and children's rain boots!
Activities
subject to change. |
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Also ...
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 Check
out the newly constructed Nature Preschool on
Saturday and Sunday from 12-4 p.m.!
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 Pick
up a Papa John's
coupon card from CNC for just $5! The card
includes a coupon for a FREE large pizza buy one get
one offers and more — over $50 value! Stop by CNC
during regular business hours or see us at the
Festival to get yours!
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Also at the Festival,
enter a raffle for just $1 to win two free
pizzas every month for a
year!
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Book sale and signing with authors Ellie Schroeder
and Dorothy Yates
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What Can a Woman Do?
A Young Abolitionist in the Michigan Territory
 What
can a woman do? More today, in 2009, than in the
1830s when a young Quaker abolitionist named
Elizabeth Margaret Chandler immigrated to the
Michigan Territory. A young woman in the 19th
century could not try to do her part in righting the
wrongs of the world using methods 21st century
readers might consider obvious: letters to Congress,
protest rallies and marches, mission trips to help
the needy, running for office. Elizabeth Margaret
Chandler, however, found a way. A revolutionary
ahead of her time, she wrote and published hundreds
of poems and essays — passionate protests against
slavery. Hers was an anonymous voice out of the
“backwoods” wilderness, laying the groundwork for
Emancipation. What Can a Woman Do? A Young
Abolitionist in the Michigan Territory is her
biography, written by EllaMarie (Ellie) Schroeder
and Dorothy Yates, available through
Amazon.com and
BookSurge.com. Much of the dialog and
description in the book is quoted directly from
letters to and from Elizabeth. Much of the
day-to-day living information is fictionalized since
the letters lack detail of mundane activities. The
story is appropriate for readers age 12 and up.
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