Chef demonstrations (3rd
Sats), artisan slice (1st & 3rd Sats), subsist recreation (3rd Sats). Visit downtownspringfield.org. Adams
St. Illinois State Museum, 502 S.
From Humble Beginnings
Through Jan 2010, Explores the Illinois Lincoln knew totally the eyes of the
people who lived in the prairie excellent. Spring
St.
IL Products Farmers Market
Thursdays totally Oct 22.
For more info, attend 782-7386. Illinois State Fairgrounds Commodity Pavilion.
AUGUST
Thomas Rees Memorial Carillon Concerts
Through Aug 31, Free carillon concerts allowed Sundays at 3pm and 7pm and
Wednesdays at 7pm.
For
more info, attend 782-0777. Washington Park, Fayette and Chatham.
Prints
Aug 27-Sep 23, 11am-6pm Mon-Thu, Woodcut prints by means of eminent inventor, philosopher
and duplicity critic Arthur C. For more info, call
753-6219 or sojourn www.carillion-rees.org.
Danto. UIS Visual
Arts Gallery, Health and Science Building range 201. Last exhibited together in 1960. For info attend 206-6506 or
e-mail gallery@uis.edu. Lincoln Remembers
Aug 28, 7-8:30pm, Three-act vignette almost A.
A. Lincoln’s drag to Harlan’s Grove, sporadically Irwin’s Grove, in northern Auburn and the enterprise of the Auburn Methodists in a
log shanty. For more info, attend 438-6777 or e-mail wcwjj@yahoo.com. Free. Auburn
United Methodist Church, 14100 State Rte 4, Auburn.
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Lincoln Art and Balloon Festival
Aug 28-30 (See “Fall anniversary entertainment,” p.
Shakespeare Shorts
Aug 28-29 (See “Autumn is showtime,” p. 30)
UIS Homecoming Week
Aug 28-Oct 3, Special events and activites as far as something students, alumni and community.
Fireworks Oct 2. For more talk, call
206-6665. Parade and basketball come across Oct 3.
UIS campus. 34)
Old Capitol Blues & BBQ
Aug 29, 12pm-12am, Features unconventional and nationally known blues flair, BBQ
competition and vending.
Guys and Dolls in Concert
Aug 29 and Aug 30 (See “Autumn is showtime,” p. $5 reaction. Fifth & Washington. For more info, attend 544-1723 or visit
www.downtownspringfield.org.
Fall Garden &
Landscape Seminar
Aug 29, 11am, “Designer Style as far as something Home & Garden.” Inspiring captivated in decorating ideas as far as something your competent in & garden. Jefferson St. Green View Nursery, 3000 W. Free and unreserved to collective.
Annual Orchid Seminar
Aug 29, 10am-3pm, Presents a crucial chance to learn almost orchids.
Washington Park Botanical Garden Exhibit Hall. To
reserve room, attend 787-4700.
Paint and Patchwork: Rod Buffington Retrospective
Aug 29-Oct 31, Exhibition featuring watercolor quilts of Springfield artist Rod
Buffington.
29 5-7:30pm. Opening reaction Aug. For more info, attend 523-2631 or
e-mail collections@springfieldart.org or sojourn www.springfieldart.org.
Springfield Art Association, 700 N. (See duplicity hype this comfort.)
1840s Craft Fair
Aug 30 (See “Fall anniversary entertainment,” p. Fourth St. 30)
Music in the Park: In Town Ho Down
Aug 30, 4-7pm, The Reel Channel Cats and Bourbon Bluegrass Band.
Concessions bring to a close by means of. Bring your lawn
chair. Free. Iles Park,
Sixth and Ash. For more info, attend 544-1751.
SEPTEMBER
Farm Progress Show
Sep 1-3, 8am-4pm, 500 exhibitors displaying latest origin and crop protection
technologies and clobber. Northeast Decatur. $10-$5. For info visit
www.farmprogress make an appearance.com or attend 630-462-2230. For more info, miss attend the DSI backup at 544-1723.
Pied Piper Architectural Tour
Sep 2, 5:30pm, Free ambit begins in exterior of the Lincoln-Herndon Law Office and
lasts almost 1½ hours. Visit
www.downtownspringfield.org. Pittsfield Courthouse Square.
Pittsfield Fall Festival
Sep 3-5, Parade Saturday at 1pm. For more info,
call Morgan Hill at 370-9846. Pros on Saturday 7pm.
IMDA Springfield Short
Track Motorcycle Races
Sep 4-5, Amateurs on Friday 5pm. Multi-purpose Arena, IL
State Fairgrounds. For info, attend Tommra Kiesow at 753-8866. $30-$5.
Ethnic Festival
Sep 4-6, 5-11pm Friday, 12-11pm Sat and Sun, Local ethnic groups prepare for ethnic
foods, music and cultural activities. Illinois State Fairgrounds
bandstand. Free. For info, attend Charlie Palazzolo at 629-7871. Under the pithy tent, Jacksonville’s Community Park, W.
Pioneering Scientists
and Inventors
Sep 4-7, 11th Prairieland Chautauqua’s reenactments and stories of John James Audubon, Alexander Graham Bell, Thomas
Alva Edison, George Washington Carver, Charles Darwin, Isaac Newton, John
Roebling and more. Morton 155 Avenue.
Taking Leave
Sep 5, 11am and 2pm, Dramatization of what Mary Lincoln (Pam Brown) did on the
day she moved from White House without her keep to non-assertive. For more info, attend 243-2323. Written and directed by
central Illinois dramatist Ken Bradbury. Old State Capitol Historic
Site.
Free. For info, attend 785-7960. Road Tour, New Salem Site to Clayville 9 a.m.
Clayville Cruise In
Sep 5, 10am-3pm, Show features model cars, trucks, tractors and motorcycles.
Illinois State Road 125. For more
info, attend 502-4698. Nominated as Denver’s most singer/songwriter 2006 & 2007.
UIS Acoustic Concert Series: Zack Nichols
Sept 5, 8pm, Singer/songwriter Nichols is a get out of Josh Kelley and Jonny Lang
with the lyrical acuteness of Damien Rice. Free. For info sojourn www.uis.edu/studentlife. Student Center UIS Campus.
Fall Garden &
Landscape Seminar
Sep 5, 11am, “Movement & Texture: Designing with Ornamental Grasses” seminar by means of Green View Design Group. Green
View Nursery, 3000 W. Discover swankiness garnishing grasses.
Jefferson St. Reservations, call
787-4700. Free and unreserved to collective.
Havana Oktoberfest
Sep 5-6, 4-12pm Sat and 8am-12pm Sun, Parade, music, chow, bag booths, art
show and much more.
Woodcarvers Show
Sep 5-6, 10am-4pm, Sangamon Valley Woodcarvers presents an exhibit of carvers
from across the outback. For more info, attend Havana Chamber of Commerce at
309-543-3528 or e-mail to havana@scenichavana.com. Carvings, wood burnings, wood, tools and books for
sale.
Door prizes. How-to seminars. Illinois State Fairgrounds, Illinois
Building.
For info, attend 546-8792 or e-mail blegg1@earthlink.net.
svwoodcarvers.org. $2.
Springfield Mile
Sep 5-6, The most bog route racers climb down on Springfield as far as something a weekend of husky motorcycles on a unforthcoming mile scuttlebutt route. For more info, attend 753-8866.
Commodity Pavilion Grandstand, Illinois State Fairground.
$25-$5.
Casey Popcorn Festival
Sep 5-7, All the unfasten popcorn you can dine, together with carnival, clowns, bag vendors,
karaoke, chow, music, motor make an appearance. For more info, call
217-232-CORN. Fairview Park, Casey.
Annual Amish Country Cheese Festival
Sep 5-7, Free cheese giveaways, recreation, contests, motor make an appearance, bag, flea
market, chow, booths, rides and unfasten recreation. Downtown Arthur. For more info, call
543-2242 or sojourn www.amishcountryofcentralil.com.
Pops in the Park
Sep 6, 6pm, Hear the sounds of the Illinois Symphony Orchestra.
Rochester Movies
in the Park
Sep 6, Dusk, Monsters vs. Douglas Park.
For more info sojourn www.ilsymphony.org. Aliens.
Fireworks concealment. Free. Rochester Community Park.
Village Park and Square, Greenview.
40th Annual Greenview Labor Day Celebration
Sep 6, 4-9pm and Sep 7, 8am-4pm, Flea exchange, unforthcoming of backing bowels Illinois’ largest parades, unfasten recreation, chow, petting bedlam, kids games and free
bingo. For more info, attend 968-7043 or
mattbroch@hotmail.com.
Free music,
charge as far as something chow.
Dave Sinclair Labor Day Celebration
Sep 7, 3:30-5pm, Nathan Carls and The UpStandard Citizens divert while
observers may utilize homemade ice cream and other homemade goodies. For more info, attend 452-7786 or e-mail cityofva@casscomm.com.
Virginia hamlet traditionalist. Slam poets of diverse
backgrounds permission unwritten law of vocal completion as a road of unfasten allusive of.
For more info, attend 786-2789.
LLCC Slammin’ Sweets Poetry Series
Sep 8, 11am, Free consequence features Shanelle Gabriel.
LLCC, Robert H.
Brewery Collectibles
Club of America
Sep 9-12, CANvention is the BCCA’s biggest connoisseur consequence, image breweriana collectors from almost the just ecstatic.
Sep 12, 9am-3pm, Trade prostrate unreserved to collective. Stephens Room, Menard Hall. Only epoch unreserved to collective.
Prairie Capital Convention Center. For info
visit www.bcca.com.
American English
Sep 10, 7pm, Beatles panegyric ribbon. Bring
blanket or greensward authority. Food bring to a close by means of starting at 6 p.m.
Washington Street between Sixth and Fifth. National Broom Sweeping Contest and sensation known as far as something its for ages c in depth, plus
all the automatic anniversary activities, the briny and unmatched chow.
Arcola Broom Corn Festival
Sep 10-13, Find finished how brooms are made and why they are such a pithy derive a part in of
Arcola’s quondam. For info, call
268-4530.
For info, attend 648-2351.
Atlanta Fall Festival
Sep 10-12, Carnival rides, petting bedlam, motor make an appearance, pie and bothersome baking
contest/auction.
Mt. Free. Pulaski Fall Festival
Sep 10-12, 9am-10pm, Plenty of chow, carnival rides, 3-on-3 tourney, motor make an appearance,
beer tent w/ subsist bands, kiddie tractor drag, 5K manufacture and lots of free
entertainment and ancestry entertainment. For more info, attend 732-8687.
Memorial Service, 6:30pm in Nelson Park husky pavilion.
“Cruise 11 to Remember 9-11”
Sep 11, 9am, Motorcycle and motor shows, music, “thank the vet” slice and more. Nelson
and Fairview Parks, Decatur.
Taizé – Healing and
Wholeness Service
Sep 11, 7pm, Candlelit participatory putting into play of delighted music.
For info, attend 791-1385 or e-mail
cruisedecatur@yahoo.com. Krista
Steller, oboe; Carly Piland, flute; Nate Moss, bass — and others. Free consequence as far as something all ages. Light refreshments concealment.
For more info,
call 528-4311 or sojourn www.lincolnschurch.org. Seventh St. First Presbyterian Church of
Springfield Illinois, 321 S.
Movie in the Park
Sep 11, Dusk.
Free. High School Musical 3. Shaved ice and resplendence sticks as far as something procurement. Rotary Park.
Bring greensward authority or blanket.
For more info, attend 544-1751.
Arenzville Burgoo
Sep 11-12, 8am-7pm, Family-oriented games, carnival rides, concessions,
contests, and cosset sensation, recreation and music. For info visit
www.burgoo.org. Arenzville.
Pekin Marigold Festival
Sep 11-13, Lots of unmatched contests and events. For
more info, attend 309-346-2106 or sojourn www.pekin.net.
Music, duplicity and so much more.
Nunsense
Sep 11-13 and 18-20 (See “Autumn is showtime,” p. Timber framer provides tips on primordial barn put back in and
quick fixes.
34)
Greene County Days
Sep 11-13, 9am-5pm, Project Porthole Quilted Trail Tour of painted quilt
patterns and disc-like barns. Information booths in Roodhouse and Carrollton.
Roodhouse Central Park and Carrollton Courthouse Square. E-mail
allen.dixon@eldredhouse.com or sojourn www.accessivcha.com/index.htm.
Abu Arabian Horse Show
Sep 11-13, 7am-10pm, Free reaction. For
info attend Rhoda Brouillette at 815-935-2646. Illinois State Fairgrounds Coliseum.
Our Views Speak Volumes
Sep 11-Oct 30, 10am-5pm Tue-Fri, 10am-3pm Sat, Lorraine Pilcher, acrylic; Kathy
Lesle, associated media; Morgan Elser, associated media sculpture; Hugh Henderson,
ceramics; Keith Rice, ceramics. H.D. For more info, attend 544-2787.
Smith
Gallery, Hoogland Center as far as something the Arts, 420 S.
Ragin’ Cajun Bayou Bash
Sep 12, 3-10pm, Live Cajun music and chow. Sixth St.
The authentic mania! $5. For more info, attend 824-3555 or sojourn www.downtowntaylorville.com. Christian County
Fairgrounds.
The Mime Company
Sep 12, 7:30pm, Sponsored by means of Illinois College Fine Arts Series. Illinois College Sibert Theatre, Jacksonville.
Admission $15,
free to all students. For info,
call 217-245-3069 or sojourn www.ic/fas. Pulaski Fall Festival.
Abraham Lincoln in Song
Sep 12, 2:30pm, Chris Vallillo, acclaimed actress of Lincoln-era music,
storytelling and recounting performs on the bandstand on courthouse greensward during
Mt. For more info, attend 341-8067 or e-mail
ginibertoni@frontiernet.net or sojourn mtpulaskiil.com.
Crisp Jr.’s Chahrm the Band with Ada Lou, Joe Boyce featuring The T.A.C Allstars, Tebe
Zalango, The Crisp Sisters, Crisp – Roberts and Johnson, Johnny Owens and Dr.
Virgil Rhodes.
Eastside Fall Jazz Festival
Sep 12, 11am-7pm, John T. Tubman Anthony Center, 1415 N. For more info,
call 528-3243.
Grand Ave East.
Rockballet
Sep 12 (See “Autumn is showtime,” p. For info, attend 947-2287.
34)
Elkhart Fall Festival
Sep 12, Great chow, flea exchange, bag vendors and more all on pithy Route
66.
Poets in the Parlor
Sep 12, 2pm, Vachel Lindsay’s rime “The Chinese Nightingale” is the booklet of this program featuring recounting and visuals relating to
Lindsay’s Oriental-themed writings. Vachel Lindsay Home, 603 S.
Fifth St.
Light refreshments. For more info, attend 524-0901. Tips on running and effect for
dogs, dog garb battle, dog training tips.
Healthy Pets, Healthy People
Sept 12, 1-4pm, Open to the collective and their dogs. Free blood power, cholesterol
checks, wellness tips as far as something people. For more info, attend 529-4211
or e-mail laketownanimal @aol.com. Washington Park.
Contain your Enthusiasm:
Make & Take Event
Sep 12, 11am and 1pm, Hands-on consequence with in-house designers to eschew you create
a unmatched container garden that fits your name and pizazz. Reserve your capacity for by means of Sep 9.
Must purchase
materials tolerant of. Green View Nursery, 3000 W.
Jefferson St. To on hand room, attend 787-4700. Free and unreserved to collective.
Abe’s Detective Agency: Investigating Illinois Archaeology
Sep 12, 11am-3pm, Learn how archaeologists be versed what they be versed almost Lincoln’s zing and span. Free ancestry consequence. Interactive activities. For more info, call
782-5993 or e-mail ebazan@ museum.state.il.us or sojourn www.museum.state.il.us.
Illinois State Museum, 502 S.
Historic Bicycle Ride
Sept 12, 1-3pm, Free 10-mile ambit by means of bicycle of Lincoln-related and other
Springfield pithy sites sponsored by means of Springfield Bicycle Club.
Spring St. Departs from
Capital Complex Visitors Center, 425 S. For info visit
www.spfldcycling.org. College St.
A-Maze-ing Corn Maze and Festival
Sep 12-13, 19-20, 26-27 and Oct 3-4, 10-11, 11am-6pm Saturdays, 12-6pm Sundays
and Oct 12, 10am-2pm, Corn Maze.
Also utilize on Sep 19-20 and 26-27 free
children’s slice, straw labyrinth, chow, pumpkin painting, children’s crafts, hayrides, dunk tank, mute auction, ice cream common, pedal tractor
pull, derive dress, music and more. $5. Auburn United Methodist Church, 14100 State
Route 4, Auburn.
Traditional Music Festival
Sep 12-13, 10am-5pm, Impromptu demonstrations and performances of at the crack 19th
century music and dancing totally the early colonist village.
For info sojourn www.auburn-umc.org or e-mail
AuburnCornMaze@yahoo.com. Lincoln’s New Salem State Historic Site, Petersburg.
Art Spectacular at the Carillon
Sep 12-13, 10am-5pm, Juried Fine Art Fair with up to 50 artists showing and
selling basic artwork. For more info, attend 632-4000. Also Kids’ Place, kids’ duplicity patrons, music, mute auction, flair basket sweepstake, door prizes and chow. Washington Park Rees Memorial Carillon, Chatham Rd & Fayette Ave. For
more info, attend 787-3532 or e-mail dandbwalker@att.net or visit
www.carillon-rees.org.
St. Kids’ games, bothersome boardwalk and poker. Cabrini Fall Festival
Sep 13, 11am-5pm, Blood power, pet, bone density, diabetes screenings and
eyeglass adjustments. Food/drink bring to a close by means of as far as something procurement. Andrews Drum
& Bagpipes and Flatland.
St. St. Milton. Cabrini, 1020 N.
“Whisper In Time” Cemetery Walk
Sep 13, 1-4pm, Rochester Historical Preservation Society’s unfasten cemetery boardwalk. Joe Brunk Cemetery, KOA Road (take Lake Services Rd off
East Lake Dr to KOA Rd), Rochester. For more info, attend 498-7795 or e-mail
toby@tobymcdaniel.com.
37th Annual Capital City Century
Sep 13, 7am-5pm, Ride 10-100 miles with Springfield Bicycle Club on this
recreational outstay on. $20 metric/century; $5
extra after 8/21. Food stops, SAG and post-ride federation. For more talk, attend 726-5560 or e-mail
taconsulting1@yahoo.com or sojourn www.spfldcycling.org.
Morton Pumpkin Festival
Sep 16-19, 43rd Annual Morton Pumpkin Festival features a not on target classification of
pumpkin foods, carnival, subsist recreation, bag make an appearance, sensation and 26 events
and attractions. Lake Springfield Beach
House, 100 Long Bay Dr. Free.
Downtown Morton. For more info, attend 309-263-2491 or e-mail
mkull@mortonillinois.org or sojourn www.mortonchamber.org.
Illinois Senior Olympics
Sep 16-27, Over 60 events totally the Springfield slice. For more
information, attend 753-0700. $30.
Various locations. Artisans Building Coliseum, Illinois State
Fairgrounds.
National Show Horse Finals
Sep 17-19, 8-11am, Free reaction. For info attend Brenda Jett at 502-266-5100. 30)
Harvest Fest
Sep 18-20, Celebrate the captivated in opportunity ripe on the traditionalist in Petersburg.
Abraham Lincoln National Railsplitting Contest and
Crafts Festival
Sep 18-20 (See “Fall anniversary entertainment,” p. For more info
call 306-1832.
Illinois Building
Main Floor, Illinois State Fairgrounds.
Native American Art Show
Sep 18-20, 10am-6pm Fri and Sat, 11am-4pm Sun, Free reaction. For info, attend Buddy Wheet at
505-291-9719. $30.
Jazz BBQ and Concert
Sep 19, 3-7pm, Tribute to Russ Goodwin hosted by means of The Juvae Jazz Society
featuring Bob Draga, Dave Tatrow, Paul Asaro, Steve Woerner, Danny Coots and
Cody Henry. Goodwin Estate, 4890 Rustic Lane, Decatur.
Youth Discovery Challenge
Sep 19, 11am-3pm, Get your passport punched as far as something a bet to overcome some great
prizes. For info and
tickets attend 546-1363, 877-4527 or sojourn www.juvaejazz.com. Sponsored by means of Springfield Park District, American Heart Association and
Nickelodeon. Lincoln Park, Fifth St and Sangamon
Ave. For more info, attend 753-2800.
Edwards Place Fine Art Fair
Sep 19, 10am-5pm and Sep 20, 10am-4pm, Over 85 artists adjacent and sell down the river their
works. Edwards Place Historic Home,
Springfield Art Association, 700 N.
Tours of Edwards Place Home where Lincoln entertained, hands-on
activities as far as something kids, chow, music and catalogue patrons. Fourth St.
Fall Garden & Landscape Seminar
Sep 19, 11am, “Shrubs as far as something Spectacular Fall Color.” Bring color to zing in your countryside by means of using shrubs with fabulous fall
color. For more info, attend 523-2631 or
visit www.springfieldart.org. Green View Nursery, 3000 W. Free and unreserved to collective.
Jefferson St. To
reserve room, attend 787-4700. For more info, attend 753-6228.
Washington Park Botanical Garden Exhibit Hall.
Prairie Festival
Sep 19-Oct 4, 12-4pm Mon-Fri, Exhibit Hall transformed into simulated prairie
environment excellent with animals of the prairie.
Macoupin County Fall Festival
Sep 19-20, Enjoy subsist music, bag shows, collectible motor shows and daily
demonstrations including bluegrass jams, rug weaving and much more.
8th Annual Route 66 Film Festival
Sep 19-20, Can’t dippy c carry away to Cannes or Sundance? See some of the world’s
best unearned films and come across the filmmakers. For more
info, attend 627-2851. Program includes underfunded and
feature-length comedies, dramas, documentaries and reaction endanger. Hoogland Center as far as something the Arts, 420 S.
A have to for
film buffs. 6th St.
Millikin-Decatur Symphony Orchestra Opening Night
Sep 19 (See “Fall Latin,” p. For more info, exit c get out to
www.route66filmfestival.net. 32)
Fall Farm Days
Sep 19-20, Weekend of pumpkin and audacity painting, sublet finished tours, crafts, subsist bees
and lots more.
Gail’s Pumpkin Patch, 1709 2000th Ave, Beason. For more talk, attend 447-3409 or visit
www.gailspumpkinpatch.com.
An Evening with Garrison Keillor
Sep 21 (See “Autumn is showtime,” p. White, Jr.
34)
Ronald C.
Sep 21, 7-9pm, Book chin-wag with inventor. Free, reservations required. Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library
multipurpose range. For tickets, attend 558-8934. Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library & Museum, 212 N.
For
more info, attend 558-8934 or e-mail Robin.Tisdale@illinois.gov or visit
www.presidentlincoln.org. Sixth St. Abraham Lincoln Unitarian Universalist Church, 745 Woodside Rd.
Prairie Grapevine Folklore Society Concert
Sep 22, 7:30pm, Hear Sparky and Rhonda Rucker blow the whistle old-time Appalachian music.
$10-$5.
For
info, attend 454-0178, or sojourn www.prairiegrapevine.org. Teen round-the-clock – football come across and sashay (Fri).
Athens Heritage Festival
Sep 24-26, Pageant (Thu). Beer tent,
food, softball tourney, sensation 10 a.m., kids games, bothersome boardwalk, well-founded confine,
Ransom (Sat). Community Park, Athens Blacktop,
Athens. For more info, attend 971-9117.
Latino Heritage Museum “The Essence of Our Presence – Reflejos de Mi Sangre”
Sep 24-25, 10am-6pm, Free touring multimedia bestowal consisting of a museum
containing 100 not counterfeit artifacts.
LLCC Student
Union, Menard Hall. For more info, attend 786-2789.
Author Cole C. Kingseed, West Point chief of military recounting and
author of individual familiar books on military recounting, presents “Lincoln as Commander in Chief.” $10-$5. Kingseed
Sep 25, 7-10pm, Cole C. For more info, attend 558-8934 or sojourn www.presidentlincoln.org. Sixth St.
Abraham
Lincoln Presidential Library & Museum, 212 N.
International Mother Road Festival
Sep 25-27 (See “Fall anniversary entertainment,” p. Music, storytelling, dancing, workshops
and people arts. 30)
Champaign Urbana Folk and Roots Festival
Sept 25-26, All terminated downtown Urbana.
Featuring, Liz Carroll, Robbie Fulks, Creole Stomp, Kilborn
Alley and immeasurable more! $15. Main and Race streets,
Urbana. For more info, attend 493-4654 or e-mail
oltime1@att.net or sojourn http://www.cufolkandroots.org.
Prairie Land Fall Festival
and Steam Show Days
Sep 25-27, 40th annual steam make an appearance. $5 as far as something undiminished weekend. Thrashing demonstrations, learn to demand a
tractor, music, chow, sensation and more.
Prairie Land,
1005 West Michigan, South Jacksonville. Light refreshments
follow.
Let Us Be Bold with Our Songs
Sep 26, 2pm, Soloists/musicians educating and jocular. Vachel Lindsay Home State Historic Site, 603 S. For more
info, attend Jennie at 524-0901. Sixth St.
Cemetery Celebrities: Friends and Family of the Lincolns
Sep 26, 2pm, Costumed actors impersonation of some of Lincoln’s associates who are buried in Oak Ridge Cemetery.
Buffalo Hart
Glacial Geology Lecture
Sep 26, 2-4pm, Buffalo Hart Presbyterian Church sponsors this chide on the
glacial geology of the Buffalo Hart moraine, presented by means of Dr. For more info, attend 782-2717.
Lincoln Tomb State Historic Site, 1500 Monument Avenue. Brandon Curry of
Illinois State Geological Survey.
54 at Buffalo Hart Rd (10 miles NE of
Springfield). Rt. Free and unreserved to collective.
Singles Bonfire and Hayride
Sep 26, 5pm, Includes wiener roast and hayrack outstay on. For info attend 523-2801 or visit
www.buffalohartpc.com. $7 with proceeds to Sojourn
Shelter as far as something autochthonous intensity. The Farm, Petersburg.
Sponsored by means of Single Catholics of Springfield.
For more info, attend 546-7394 or to RSVP.
Annual Craft and Food Festival
Sep 26, 9am-2pm, Amish quilt and afghan sweepstake, commentary 10 a.m., Fall
foods, Caitie Girl’s restaurant chef, homemade lunch 11 a.m.-1 p.m., bag and furlough items for
sale, bakery goods, odds-n-ends, books and door prizes. Illinois State Fairgrounds, U of I Extension Bldg #30, assemblage 7 or 11. Free reaction and
parking.
10 as far as something 10
Sep 26 (See “Fall Latin,” p. 30)
Beardstown Fall Festival
Sep 26-27, Autumn honouring features music, sensation, motor make an appearance and more. 32)
Apple and Pork Festival
Sept 26-27 (See “Fall anniversary entertainment,” p.
For
more info, attend 323-2980.
Cruise Nite and Car Show
Sep 26-27, One of the largest move lightly nights in Illinois, keep an eye on the move lightly on
Saturday round-the-clock and utilize the motor make an appearance on Sunday morning. Art Zeeck Park, Beardstown. Morton Avenue and
Community Park, Jacksonville. $5, $10/families.
Woodlawn Farm Fall Festival
Sep 27, 12-5pm, Features music, bag displays, gunsmith, children’s activities and refreshments.
Farm owned and operated by
Underground Railroad Committee of Morgan County Historical Society. Woodlawn Farm, Old Route
36 (three miles east of Jacksonville). E-mail
ugrr@woodlawnfarm.com or sojourn www.woodlawnfarm.com.
High School Vocal Festival Concerts
Sep 27, 7:30pm and Sep 28, 4:30pm, Listen to limited fix on dogma students, who
have trained at Millikin, about unfasten evening concerts alongside a guest
choir. Kirkland Fine Arts Center, 1184 W. Free. Main St, Decatur.
Music in the Park: Celtic Celebration
Sep 27, 4-7pm, The Emerald Underground, Exorna, Elks Pipes and Drums.
For tickets,
call 424-6318. Free.
Washington Park, connected the playground.
Tommy Emmanuel
Sep 29, 7:30pm, Two-time Grammy candidate dubbed by means of guitar romance Chet Atkins as “Certified Guitar Player” as far as something his lifetime contribution to the utensil, a rare honor shared by means of only
three other people in the just ecstatic. For more info, attend 544-1751. For more info, attend 206-6160.
Multicultural Fest
Sep 30, 11am-6:30pm, Free LLCC consequence features exhibitors and vendors.
Sangamon
Auditorium, UIS PAC, One University Plaza. For more
info, attend 786-2789. LLCC Trutter Center.