JOHNNY APPLESEED FESTIVAL, Ft. Wayne, Indiana

If you're ever in Ft. Wayne at this time of the year, you'll want to visit the weekend-long Johnny Appleseed Festival held at the burial place of Johnny himself (someone said that they had 150,000 visitors). Karol and I were in Ft. Wayne this weekend to attend her 50th Concordia High School reunion held at the Holiday Inn. While she was off to a luncheon, I visited the festival grounds - quite a variety of interesting tents all the way from huge pots of soup to blacksmiths to antique shops and a farmers market.

Johnny Appleseed's grave.

They surely were enjoying cooking it in the "old fashioned" way.

The little band marched and played all through the festival grounds.

 CLICK HERE to watch a brief listen to the marching band.

And some just have to help by "watching."

Performances were held throughout the whole area - maybe seven to tent stage areas.

 

 CLICK HERE to watch what I'd call a clogging country music dance.

Of course, I'm always interested in the wooden bowls.

Displays of all kinds of "settler" activities were available.

These young bucks were manning a cider press.

We use these kind of pots for our canning, but I guess they work for cooking over an open fire too!

"Hey, mom, can I buy one of these for my sister?"

And, of course, we always like to look at the antique shops to compare and see how much the "old" things in our house are worth. Sometimes we are REALLY surprised!