Friday, Sept 18

9:00 - 4:00

Cannons & Redcoats, Fort Crawford Museum, Prairie du Chien

Saturday, Sept 19

9:00 am

Start, Kickapoo BRAVE Ride, Riverside Park, Gays Mills

9:00 - 4:00

Amish Market in the Park, Sugar Creek Park, Ferryville

9:00 - 4:00

Cannons & Redcoats, Fort Crawford Museum, Prairie du Chien

10:00 - 5:00

Driftless Area Art Festival, Beauford T. Anderson Park, Soldiers Grove

5:00 - 8:00

Harvest Dinner, Riverside Park, Gays Mills

Sunday, Sept 20

10:00 - 4:00

Driftless Area Art Festival, Beauford T. Anderson Park, Soldiers Grove

Cannons & Redcoats

Prairie du Chien

The Prairie du Chien Museum at Fort Crawford will again host Cannons and Redcoats.  The event is a popular living history reenactment of frontier life in Prairie du Chien at the time of the War of 1812 under the British.  

Co-Sponsored by:

Prairie du Chien

Tourism Council

Prairie du Chien

Memorial Hospital

Benefactors:

Howe Printing

Amish Market in the Park

Sugar Creek Park, Ferryville

The market offers Amish craft items such as baskets, quilts, small furniture, throw rugs, toys, baked goods; and other products such as garden plants, nursery items, home made preserves, and flea market items.  The event will also feature a storyteller, music, and food.  The Amish Market is an expanded version of the Market in the Park held each Saturday from May through October in Sugar Creek Park.

Co-Sponsored by:

Ferryville Tourism Council

Benefactors:

River Bank

Wooden Nickel Saloon

Saturday, Sept 19

Kickapoo BRAVE Ride and Harvest Dinner

Riverside Park, Gays Mills

The Kickapoo BRAVE Ride (Bluffs, Rivers, And Valley Event) will feature bicycle rides coursing through the scenic landscapes of the Driftless area in Crawford County.  The Ride will offer both the physical challenge of climbing the numerous hills of Crawford County; and the visual rewards of cresting a hill or coasting along the river valleys.  The Ride will include two options: a shorter 20-mile route in the valley to the Driftless Area Art Festival in Soldiers Grove and back; and a 100-kilometer route that takes riders out of the valley and along the ridge tops to the Mississippi River, including the Amish Market in the Park at Ferryville.

Registration and more information

Saturday evening, the County will celebrate a Harvest Dinner in Gays Mills.  The dinner, offering locally grown and produced foods, begins at 4:30 pm at the riverfront park, giving Brave Ride participants an opportunity to dine after completing their ride.  The dinner menu will feature fresh, seasonal foods grown by family farmers and catered by the Driftless Cafe, as well as breads, deserts, and wines from around the Driftless region. Live entertainment will begin at 4:30 pm.

Co-Sponsored by:

Gays Mills

Economic Development Association

Benefactors:

Murray Construction & Woodworking

Driftless Design

Kickapoo Locker Service

Saturday, Sept 18

Driftless Area Art Festival

Beauford T. Anderson Park, Soldiers Grove

The Driftless area, a unique region that escaped the glaciers of the ice age, is an inspirational setting to many talented artists and artisans.  Its hills and valleys are home to painters and potters, woodworkers and weavers, musicians and metalsmiths. 

To see the breadth and variety of their creations, you usually have to visit studios, stores and galleries across the area.  But once a year in September, these artists gather together in Crawford County, Wisconsin, at the Driftless Area Art Festival.

 www.driftlessareaartfestival.com

Presenting Partner:

Performing Arts Partner:

Reception Partners:

Village of Soldiers Grove

and

Soldiers Grove

Community

Development 

Corporation

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Front cover and majority of photos throughout this site - courtesy of Larry Knutson Photography. Bicycling photos courtesy of Jerry Quebe, Diane Craig, Mark Drake, and Patti Wacker.  Gays Mills Orchard photo - courtesy of Marlene Meyer. Kickapoo Cavern photo - courtesy of Delores Gaidowski. Log Cabin-Heritage Park photo - courtesy of Betty France, while other photos are unknown.