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May - September 2008 |
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Memorial Day
Monday, May 26
Mount Pulaski Cemetery
- on memorial bluff - North Side of town 10 am
American Legion & VFW Flag & Rifle Honor Guard Salute - band - speakers 2 ft. flags decorate all veteran graves - sound system
Steenbergen Cemetery
Chapel - 3 mi South of Town west off of Illiopolis
Blacktop 11:15 am
American Legion & VFW Flag
& Rifle Honor Guard Salute - band - speakers
15 ft. flags each represent veteran buried in this cemetery (Civil War to present)
Independence
Day - Friday,
July 4th
Town-wide garage sales (dawn to dusk) Annual VFW Fried Chicken Dinner - 10:30 - 1:30 (VFW Hall on South Side of Square - tickets available at the door)
Fire Works -
west side of town - free
116th Annual Fall Festival
- September 4,5,6
Rides, entertainment, music; food venders; Methodist Church homemade ice cream & homemade pies Evening dinners under the tent (Thurs, Fri. Sat., 5 - 8) - tickets can be bought at the tent door 11th Illinois Cavalry Company G encampment on courthouse law - Friday (free) Parade - Sat., 1 pm 10th Illinois Volunteer Cavalry Regiment Band - concert on Courthouse grounds - Sat., 2:30 (free) 8th re-enactment of the Abe Lincoln & David Davis 1854 Cast Iron Tombstone Trial - Courthouse Courtroom, Sat., 4:00 (donation) Re-enactment will feature two professional actors - 11 cast members, selected (that day) 5-person jury - decision with two possible endings Actual 1854 results will be revealed at the end of the production, cameras allowed (no video or recording)
Annual
Christmas on Vinegar Hill
- November 23
- 24
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