Scenes will be re-enacted from The Little House on the Prairie
books by the Mike Bush Family. red in “
Gettysburg
” and “Ride with the Devil”. Mike Bush, who plays Pa Ingalls,
appeared in “Far & Away”, “Osarks, Legacy and Legands”
and “Ride with the Devil”.
The Wilson County Old Iron Club will display an antique corn sheller,
corn husker and will prepare home-made ice cream. The Elk City Power
of the Past will also be at Prairie Days Festival this year with a
rock crusher, buzz saw, baker fan, fracker, burr mill and several
antique tractors.
The Three Rivers Muzzle Loader will have an encampment set up, and
on Friday evening at 5:30 will offer a bean feed to the public for a
$2.50.
The one room
school house on the site will come alive with a math lesson and
spelling bee demonstration with a school teacher.
The festival is open to the public from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on
Saturday, June 10th and admission is $2.
The Little House on the Prairie site is located on U.S. 75 highway,
13 miles southwest of
Independence
. Watch for highway signs pointing to the historic site.
The Little House on the Prairie is home to a replica of a log cabin
used by the Ingalls family depicted in the novel “Little House on
the Prairie” by Laura Ingalls Wilder. The site also is home to a
one-room schoolhouse used in
Rutland
Township
, and the old Wayside Post Office also is located on the grounds of
the historic site.
The Charles Ingalls family made
Rutland
Township
their home in 1869-71 before moving to
Wisconsin
and eventually to
Minnesota
. Laura Ingalls Wilder would use the
Kansas
prairie and her childhood experiences as the initial setting and
storyline of her many novels. Her stories later became a television
series.
The Independence Convention and Visitors Bureau and The Little House
on the Prairie are coordinating the event along with several other
area sponsors. For more information, call the Independence Chamber
of Commerce at (800) 882-3606, or the Little House on the Prairie at
(620) 289-4238 or visit the Little House on the Prairie Web site at www.littlehouseontheprairie.com.
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