Festival of the Kekionga
Kekionga Highlights Our Heritage - 2008
The 6th annual Kekionga Festival took place August 22 – 24 with great weather,
great participants and a great crowd. Over thirty reenactors set-up camp behind
Riverside Center to demonstrate the lifestyle of frontier trapper and traders.
The Kekionga Festival is a celebration of our history and culture. With this
goal in mind artisans, storytellers, reenactors gather to recreate the days of
1840 Indiana. A woodland Indian lodge and a Shoshone storyteller connected the
pioneers with the native residents.
New at Kekionga 2008 was Education Day. Some 300 students visited the encampment
and saw demonstrations of life on the Indiana frontier, curia 1940. The students
were especially fascinated by the hourly firing of a replica Civil War cannon.
An enlarged Education Day will take place on August 21, 2009.
On Saturday participants arrived early in anticipation of a large crowd of
visitors. Nationally known storyteller Bob Sander crafted shared tall tales and
folk stories
Other exciting events included a bat exhibit by “Going Batty” and live owls and
a redtail hawk exhibited by the raptor rehabilitation center. The Artifacts
Roadshow also brought much interest to the Festival.
The next Kekionga Festival will take place at Riverside Center August 21-23,
2009. Plan now to attend!