Arvada Harvest Festival 2017

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SEPTEMBER 8-10, 2017

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On the cover: The annual Arvada Harvest Festival starts on Olde Wadsworth Boulevard. FILE PHOTO

Aubrielle Wenzel, 9, of Arvada, does a flip while on a bungee ride at last year’s Arvada Harvest Festival.

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Exploring folklore in Arvada A look at the famous hackberry tree

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ll things Arvada will be celebrated at the 92nd annual Arvada Harvest Festival, which will traverse upon Olde Town Arvada September 8, 9 and 10.

Started in October 1925 as a celebration of the first paved road connecting Arvada to Denver this years festival will will focus of fantasy, fairy tales and folklore as a theme.

To explore some of Arvada’s folklore, the Arvada Press connected with Nancy Young, researcher and volunteer with the Arvada Historical Society. Young shared the story of the city’s Hackberry Tree.

When the first settlers arrived in Arvada, there were virtually no trees except for a few cottonwoods along the river, Young explained.

But there was a lone hackberry tree standing on a tall hill.

The tree, Young said, was revered by the early settlers.

But how the tree got there, no one really knows. Hackberry trees are not native to the area.

“The existence of that tree was documented by a botanist with John Fremont’s expedition of 1843,” Young said. “There are dozens of

stories of how it got there.”

One story Young relayed is of a great medicine man who planted hackberry trees on top of hills as alters.

But, this is called into question, Young said, because there are no other known hackberry trees planted on hills in the area.

Another favorite story, Young said, is that a great Native American chief was killed in battle in the Clear Creek Valley and was buried on top of the hill with a pouch of hackberry seeds that eventually sprouted and grew a tree.

T In the 1930s, Colorado Department of Transportation said the tree would need to be moved to straighten Wadsworth Boulevard, which was originally built to curve around the tree.

Young said that history reports that Arvada citizens were very con-

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But one morning, the town woke up and the tree had been cut down in the middle of the night.

The remains of the tree were taken to a warehouse under the

water tower in what is now Olde Town, where citizens were invited to take a piece of the tree.

Young said that a cross cut was send to an dendrochronologist, who determined that the hackberry tree began to grow in 1807 — around the same time as the Louis and Clarke expedition.

“If there were any human remains in 1937, nobody cared,” Young said, adding that with the tree gone, CDOT promptly straightened Wadsworth. “They just dug out the highway and hauled the dirt off. So, we will never know. There’s no proof if the Indian chief was buried there.”

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Arvada’s annual festival and parade drew large crowds and lots of smiles last year. Pictured: Amber Jones, community risk reduction specialist for the Arvada Fire Protection District, hands Justyn Morris, 2, of Arvada, a rubber duck toy during the parade Saturday morning. Photo by Kevin M. Smith/For the Arvada Press

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Casey Dean, left, and Kris Buxton dance to the Olde Town Swing Band on the main stage on Grandview Avenue during Arvada Harvest Festival last year. FILE PHOTOS

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arly in the morning, the sounds of instruments warming up, dancers practicing leaps and turns, and parade participants putting on the final touches on their floats could be heard throughout Olde Town.

It’s time for the Grand Parade to begin.

Every year since 1925, the Arvada Harvest Festival has honored the history and heritage of Arvada, and the best way they do that is in three days of fun. Here, last year’s festival participants marched down Ralston Road, between Olde Wadsworth and Independence Street, performing a variety of dances, songs and acts for an audience of more than 6,000 residents and community members. In this year’s parade marching bands, dance troupes, and community groups will perform along the same route, to the theme of “Fantasy, Fairy tales and Folklore.”

This year’s main judging stand will be on the south side of Ralston Road, near Garrison Street.

Along with the fan-favorite parade, the annual event will feature something for everyone — a selection of beer to sample, live music, a pancake breakfast, a farmers market, a kids zone, a fun run and more!

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Festival Schedule Hours:

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Friday, September 8 5:00 p.m. - 10:30 p.m.

Carnival & Rides - Harkins Theater Lot 5:00 p.m. - 10:30 p.m.

Midway Booths - Grandview & Upham 5:00 p.m. - 10:30 p.m. FREE 103.1 Comedy Radio Cash Machine Grandview & Webster 5:00 p.m. - 10:30 p.m.

Beer Alley - Grandview & Webster 5:00 p.m. - 10:30 p.m.

Arvada Historical Society -Pull Tabs Grandview & Upham 5:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.

Historical Society BINGO - 57th & Upham lot 5:00 p.m. - 8:00p.m. FREE Main Stage Live Music - Grandview & Webster 8:00 p.m. - 10:30p.m. FREE Band - Nachomen Rock/Comedy Grandview & Webster

Saturday, September 9 7:00 a.m. Registration Harvest Run - Olde Town Square Start 7:00 a.m. Registration 5 Mile Run - Olde Town Square Start 7:00 a.m.

Registration for 3 Mile Walk/Run Olde Town Square Start 8:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.

Kiwanis Pancake Breakfast - Olde Town Square 9:00 a.m. - Noon Harvest Festival Parade - Ralston Road Route 11:00 a.m. - 10:30 p.m.

Carnival & Rides Harkins Theater Lot

Midway Booths 5 PM - 10:30 PM

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Parade 9 AM - Noon Midway Booths 11 AM - 10:30 PM

11:00 a.m. - 10:30 p.m.

Midway Booths - Grandview & Upham 11:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Arts & Crafts Fair - McIlvoy Park 11:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. FREE Live Music Main Stage - Grandview & Webster 11:30 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.

Arvada Historical Society -Pull Tabs Grandview & Upham Noon - 2:00 p.m. FREE Garden Harvest Fair Entries St. Anne’s Cafeteria (7320 Grant Pl) Noon - 5:00 p.m. FREE YMCA Kids’ Fun Zone Activities - McIlvoy Park Noon - 3:00 p.m. FREE Arvada Flour Mill - Free tours Olde Wadsworth & Grandview Noon - 10:30 p.m.

Beer Alley - Grandview & Webster Noon - 10:30 p.m. FREE Free Entertainment McIlvoy Park Pavilion and Midway Noon - 5:00 p.m. FREE International Entertainment - Midway Noon - 9:00 p.m.

Historical Society BINGO - 57th & Upham lot 12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. FREE Food Fair Entries St. Anne’s Cafeteria (7320 Grant Pl) 1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. FREE Cow Chip Toss officially sanctioned 56th & Wadsworth Bypass 2:00 p.m.

Food Fair Judging St. Anne’s School (7320 Grant Pl) 2:00 p.m.

Garden Harvest Fair Judging St. Anne’s School (7320 Grant Pl)

day Midway Booths n u S 11 AM - 7 PM

3:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. FREE Kid’s Parade registration McIlvoy Park Pavilion 5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. FREE Band - Teledonnas Jazz/R&B Main Stage - Grandview & Webster 6:30 pm – 8:00 p.m. FREE Belly Dancers - Midway Grandview & Upham 8:00 p.m. - 10:30 p.m. FREE Band - Zyzzyx Electrifying Rock & Blues Main Stage - Grandview & Webster 7:30 (Dusk)- 9:30 p.m. FREE Family Movie in the Park - Beauty & the Beast McIlvoy Park Pavilion

Sunday, September 10 9:00 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.

Arvada Farmers Market Olde Town Square - with the Library 11:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Arts & Crafts Fair - McIlvoy Park 11:00 a.m - 7:00 p.m.

Beer Alley - Grandview & Webster 11:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m.

Carnival & Rides - Harkins Theater Lot 11:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m.

Midway Booths - Olde Town 11:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m. FREE Main Stage Live Music Grandview & Webster 11:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. FREE YMCA Kids’ Fun Zone Activities McIlvoy Park 11:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m.

Arvada Historical Society Pull Tabs Grandview & Upham 1:00 pm - 2:00 p.m. FREE Teddy Bear Picnic - Arvada Library

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Layla Greene, 7, of Cheyenne, Wyoming, rolls in a giant, inflated ball in McIlvoy Park during last year’s Arvada Harvest Festival.

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