Apple Festival 2013

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Apple Festival of Kendallville SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

Parking $3.00 at Fairgrounds.

Free Shuttle Service.

ATM on site.

All Festival activities held at Noble County Fairgrounds this year.

OCTOBER 5 & 6, 2013 • SATURDAY: 9 AM - 6 PM • SUNDAY: 9 AM - 5 PM Join the fun at the Noble County Fairgrounds, US 6, Kendallville Visit us at facebook.com/applefest or www.KendallvilleAppleFestival.com for festival information and updates.

ENTERTAINMENT • CONTESTS • PRIMITIVE AREA • ANTIQUES & COLLECTIBLES FOOD • CRAFTS • CHILDREN’S ACTIVITIES • DEMONSTRATIONS

Roaming the grounds: Johnny Appleseed Saturday & Sunday

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9 AM

Applesauce Quartet SR

9 AM

10 AM

Drop the Dawg OP Hastey Pudding Puppets FH

Applesauce Quartet SR Frailey Family OP

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Suzanne & Jim OP Hastey Pudding Puppets FH

11 AM

Johnny Appleseed FH

12 Noon

Frailey Family SR Applesauce Quartet OP George Schricker FH

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Frailey Family SR Inclognito OP Hastey Pudding Puppets FH

3 PM

Suzanne & Jim SR Johnny Appleseed FH

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Applesauce Quartet SR Inclognito OP George Schricker & Wild Rose Moon FH

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Applesauce Quartet SR Johnny Appleseed FH

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OP = Open Prairie SR = Settler’s Roost FH = Dekko Little Pioneer Stage at Floral Hall

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CONTEST SCHEDULE Festival Favorite Food - Stop by the information booth and vote for your favorite food at the Apple Festival. Winner announced at 4:00 PM, Sunday.

Sat. all day • Sun. 9 AM - 3 PM Frog Flippin’ - Children’s area - Saturday & Sunday 12 PM

Apple Toss - Children’s area - Saturday & Sunday 2 PM Ladies Skillet Throw - North end of Primitive area (must be in costume) Sat. 1:30 PM • Sun. 11 AM Tomahawk Throw - North end of Primitive Area (must be in costume) Sat. 2 PM • Sun. 11:30 AM

Apple Rings- Children’s area - Saturday & Sunday 10 AM

Pets are not allowed on Apple Festival grounds unless licensed as service animals.

No scooters, bicycles, skateboards, roller blades allowed on Festival grounds.

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Apple Festival means food, crafts, entertainment and fun for everyone

BY DENNIS NARTKER dnartker@kpcmedia.com

KENDALLVILLE — Mmmm. Crispy, fried apple fritters, hot Brunswick stew, warm apple dumplings smothered in ice cream, chewy caramel apples, ham and beans, cornbread, sweet-tasting apple cider, slices of apple pie or a whole apple

pie, and on, and on …

It’s Apple Festival of Kendallville time, an occasion to forgo the diet and plan the food vendor crawl.

There are 40 food vendors at the 28th annual Apple Festival of Kendallville See FESTIVAL page 4

It’s time for Apple Festival of Kendallville It’s officially fall in northeast Indiana, so it is time once again for Apple Festival of Kendallville, one of the top autumn festivals around.

This year, the 28th edition of Apple Festival, the festival committee has been working hard to make sure the event once again is enjoyable for the thousands of visitors who attend.

Apple Festival of Kendallville will be held exclusively at the Noble County Fairgrounds on the east side of Kendall-

ville this year. The event is Saturday, Oct. 5 and Sunday, Oct. 6.

This section, prepared by KPC Media Group employees and with the help of the Apple Festival committee, highlights some of the best parts of the festival, including vendors, entertainers, demonstrators and, of course, the delicious food!

Read through this section and get ready for a great weekend of family fun in Kendallville!

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Pictured is the 2013 Apple Festival committee. In front row from left, Barbie Schlegel, Jenny Cummins, Rachel Reed and Darlene Gisel. In back, Carson Roberts, Todd Campbell, Craig Munk, Kevin Schlegel, Sandra Hodge, Nichole Hoyt, Kathy Young, LouAnn Pillers, Cheryl Mapes, Don Leighty and Pat Young.

Not pictured are members, Mandy Taylor, Tom Jansen, Barb Kelly, Sheree Lunk, Howard Mapes, Jessica Schoof and Don and Lorilee Ward.

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Saturday 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Sunday 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Noble County Fairgrounds. Most vendors will offer multiple items to tempt the taste buds, and for many of the volunteers who work the food booths along the midway, it’s a labor of love. Sales support scholarships, church missions and other philanthropic endeavors by the not-for-profits.

To walk off the excess pounds, pick up a free brochure with a map at the bus stop or information booth and move to the crafters area. There are 98 crafters in three buildings offering the kind of handmade, unique and sometimes unusual items that make great gifts or home decor. There’s crochet art, ceramics, gold and silver wire jewelry, scroll cut wood, fabric purses and bags, stenciled baskets, birdhouses and bird feeders, soy candles, folk art furniture, sun catchers, pottery and on and on.

Take another short walk to the antiques area. Here 30 vendors will offer old dolls, furniture, dishes, books, jewelry, linens, toys, coins, tools, buttons and glassware.

It’s the place to find collectibles.

In the primitive area watch blacksmiths

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Crowds have been enjoying the Apple Festival of Kendallville every year.

and woodcarvers do their work or barter for items like beads, leather bags, scrimshaw, walking sticks, buckskin clothing and wood toys.

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theme is 18th-19th century America, not the 21st century. Kids can enjoy hands-on crafts like basket weaving, candle dipping, tin punch, making corn husk dolls and beaded necklaces. They play apple bowling and enjoy the rope bridge, straw maze and pony rides.

There’s an area for skilled tradesmen and women to demonstrate their skills in using wood lathes, making syrup, spinning and weaving wool, hooking rugs, carving walking sticks, branding leather and many other demonstrations.

The Open Prairie Stage, Settler’s Roost and Dekko Little Pioneer Stage are the best locations for resting the feet from all the walking while enjoying free entertainment throughout both days.

Singers, dancers, comedians, storytellers, puppeteers and musicians like the Icognito Cloggers, the Wes Linenkugal Quartet, Hastey Pudding and Johnny Appleseed are among the scheduled entertainers.

“Raise-A-Ruckus,” the East Noble theater and vocal music department musical revue, celebrates its 25th year with free performances in the Show Arena both days at 10:45 a.m., noon, 1:15 p.m., 2:30 p.m. and 3:45 p.m. A special 25th anniversary alumni show is scheduled for Saturday at 7 p.m. Tickets are $5 at the door.

A good way to work off the food is try the contest area. Feel like tossing a skillet or apple or flipping a frog?

Fairgrounds admission is free. Parking is $3. Festival organizers recommend visitors park at East Noble High School or the No-Sag parking lot on Allen Chapel Road and use the free shuttle bus service.

A shuttle bus will also make a stop downtown, but no Main Street Village is planned. The Main Street Business Association is sponsoring a Farmer’s Market and a Trunk Treasures in the downtown business district Saturday.

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Apple Festival to offer several new foods

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KENDALLVILLE — From traditional to new and extremely creative, food at the Apple Festival offers something for every palate. It is a good reason to go to the festival not just one day, but two.

With 40 food vendors — up four from last year — the festival will feature several new foods, said organizers Pat and Kathy Young of Kendallville. “Because there will not be a Main Street Village this year, some of the food vendors from that area applied to have a booth at the main festival grounds,� Kathy said.

The Youngs said some of the favorite foods that will be returning are chicken and noodles, beef and noodles, tenderloin sandwiches, chicken sandwiches, pulled pork sandwiches, pork burgers, buffalo burgers, apple dumplings, apple fritters, loaded baked potatoes, New Brunswick stew, vegetable soup, ham and beans, kettle corn, soft pretzels, maple creams and caramel apples, to name a few. “You can come for breakfast and enjoy pancakes, biscuits and gravy, or ham and egg sandwiches,� Kathy said.

Apple pie is always a crowd pleaser at the Apple Festival of See FOODS page 6 Kendallville. But dozens of other apple offerings are

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“Pat and I (as food chairmen) have “There will also be many kinds of pie and tried to sample all of the foods through soup, mini doughnuts, haystack potatoes, the years, and we have not had anything elephant ears, apple cobbler, fruit kabobs, that we did not like!” apple slices with Kathy said. caramel, ice To be announced cream, fudge, “Pat and I (as food chairmen) have at the conclusion onion rings, hot of the festival, the dogs, corn dogs, tried to sample all of the foods winner of the favorite fish sandwiches, through the years, and we have not food contest will boneless chicken a ribbon and wings, smoked had anything that we did not like!” receive bragging rights for the turkey legs, curly year. fries and the list The Youngs said goes on and on!” they thank each and New foods this Kathy Young every food vendor — year will include some of whom have cheeseburger soup, participated for many, pumpkin whoopie many years. pies, homemade “It is a lot of hard cookies, Indian work getting food items ready and finding fry bread, boneless center cut pork chops, volunteers to work at the festival,” Kathy barbecue ribs, deep-fried apple spirals on said, “but all of their hard work lends itself a stick, deep-fried chicken gizzards and “a to a great festival year after year. Many of new twist on a fried bologna sandwich … hillbilly style and Philly style,” the Youngs our not-for-profit organizations return 100 percent of their profits from the festival said. back to the community. And, for others, it Kathy said the most unique Apple is the major fund-raiser for their organizaFestival food might be the chocolatetion for the year.” dipped cheesecake on a stick.

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Skillet throw, tomahawk toss part of primitive area

BY BOB BUTTGEN bbuttgen@kpcmedia.com

KENDALLVILLE — Pioneer life was tough in 19th-century America, including northeast Indiana.

That’s why some entertainment options that may seem peculiar now were popular some 160 years ago or more.

At this year’s Apple Festival of Kendallville, the primitives area will showcase two competitions that should provide a unique form of entertainment for some of the thousands expected to attend the event.

The “Ladies Skillet Throw” will take place on the north end of the primitive area both days. The throwing starts at 1:30 p.m.

Saturday and 11 a.m. on Sunday. It’s open to any woman who wants to demonstrate her ability to pick up a cast iron skillet and fling as far as possible. The only catch is that competitors must be in pioneer costume to participate.

That feat of strength will be matched by one taking different skills, the “Tomahawk Throw.” Also in the north end of the primitive area, the contest will take place at 2 p.m. Saturday and 11:30 a.m. Sunday.

Again, those taking part must be in period costume.

Those are just two of the many things to see in the always popular primitive area of

the festival.

As always, the primitive area will be on the west side of the Noble County Fairgrounds near the first aid station and the Open Prairie Stage, said Dr. Tom Jansen, the Kendallville chiropractor who organizes the popular area each year at the festival.

More than 20 demonstrators will be showing their wares and talents in the primitive area of the festival grounds.

“We have almost all of our regulars back this year,” Jansen said Jansen said he lost a couple of vendors due to conflicts with other festivals but still expects the area to be filled with plenty of authentic pioneer folk.

Among the popular demonstrators returning is Majencia Creek Honey Farm, whose owners will have a large assortment of honey and honey products.

Eugene Burkey is returning this year with his handmade knives, powder horns and leather pouches.

A pair of always-popular blacksmiths, George and Josh Clark, will be back with a variety of handmade items that can be used on today’s barbecue grills and other uses around the modern home. They will also have a variety of cast iron skillets for sale, See PRIMITIVE page 12

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Blaine Lumpkins, Fremont, throws a tomahawk at a block of wood during the tomahawk throw contest held in the primitive area at last year’s Apple Festival.

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The Apple Jack Cloggers, featuring Jen Davis, left, and Jim Keckler perform at the 2012 Apple Festival of Kendallville.

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Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fun has old-time feel

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Pins are set up for apple bowling at the Bridgeway Evangelical Churchâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s area in the Dekko Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Pioneer Craft Village during a previous Apple Festival of Kendallville in this undated photo. The church will offer apple bowling again this year, one of a number of childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s activities during the festival.

KENDALLVILLE â&#x20AC;&#x201D; From bowling to a buzz saw, there are a lot of things for children to see, with most to do, at the Apple Festival of Kendallville Saturday and Sunday at the Noble County Fairgrounds.

Apple bowling is one of the childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s games in the Dekko Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Pioneer Craft Village again this year. The buzz saw is part of the childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s crafts area of the village.

The Apple Festival committee said they needed more childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s booths for the 2006 festival, so Bridgeway decided to have apple bowling for the children that were there, the churchâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s website said.

Apples are used as the bowling ball as they tried to knock over 6-inch bowling

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and will be demonstrating their craft as well as taking questions.

The festivalâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lineup includes vendors who make knives, axes, leather bags and accessories, leather clothing, furs and hides, beads, blankets, craft supplies, jewelry, kids

pins. More than 1,000 children bowled the ďŹ rst year, and the event has become a festival favorite.

Other elements in the childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s games area include face painting, candle dipping, pony rides by the Noble County 4-H Horse and Pony Club, a straw maze by the Noble County Beef Club and the rope bridge and Maypole swing by Boy Scout Troop 103.

The buzz saw in the crafts area is handled by adults. Other crafts in the area are bead necklaces, birdseed, corn husk dolls, clay, a tin punch and basket weaving.

There also are contests in which children can take part, all in the childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s area, and each held each day of the festival.

The apple rings contest takes place Saturday and Sunday at 10 a.m. Frog ďŹ&#x201A;ippinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; is set for noon each day. The apple toss will go on at 2 p.m. each day. toys and walking sticks.

Many of the campers in the primitive area will be cooking a variety of foods over open ďŹ res. Stews, roasts, vegetables, desserts, breakfast, lunch and dinner can be found.

Many of those camping out under pioneer conditions invite festivalgoers to stop in and ask questions and learn a little Indiana history while they are in the area.

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Raise-A-Ruckus celebrating 25 years

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KENDALLVILLE â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Raise-A-Ruckus, the East Noble theater and vocal music department musical cabaret, is celebrating 25 years at the Apple Festival of Kendallville with a special reunion show and its full schedule of performances Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 5-6.

Raise-A-Ruckus has become one of the most popular events at the festival. Free performances in the Show Arena, featuring Miss Indiana Terrin Thomas, will be at 10:45 a.m., noon, 1:15 p.m., 2:30 p.m. and 3:45 p.m. both days.

The special reunion show with the 2013 cast and Raise-A-Ruckus alumni will be Saturday at 7 p.m. in the Show Arena.

Admission is $5.

Director Craig Munk has invited alumni from the past 25 years to this special show. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The 20th Ruckus anniversary was a fun

time and we hope the 25th is even better,â&#x20AC;? said Munk.

Raise-A-Ruckus is an original 50-minute production designed by Munk, East Noble director of choirs Chris Mettert and assistant director Karen Munk.

The high-energy show with dancing, singing, comedy and audience participation has been seen by more than 130,000 people. Munk said he never realized it would become so popular with students and audiences.

Munkâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s stagecraft classes transform the Beef and Dairy Arena building into a theater with exterior large quilt blocks and decorative landscaping. Inside guests can sit at round tables or in the bleachers.

Performers, including Miss Indiana, will greet guests and sign autographs.

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KENDALLVILLE — When the Apple Festival of Kendallville opens again this year, there’ll be no shortage of crafts or craft vendors.

One hundred vendors have signed up to take part in this year’s festival, and will be on hand with thousands of different handcrafted items available to festivals visitors.

“This is an incredible festival,” said longtime vendor, Lilly Lahey, co-owner of Fay’s Quality Quilted Handbags. “You will love the Apple Festival. There is so much to do and see. The air is always crisp. There are so many good vendors who really are craftsmen and artists. The festival does a good job of making sure everything there is of the highest quality and they make sure there’s a good variety of handmade items available.”

Lahey said she started her company years ago in order to spend more time with her mother and participate in festivals. The pair has been coming to the Apple Festival

for more than 17 years, selling their hand-quilted pursues, diaper bags, totes and wallets.

“We cater to a feminine audience,” Lahey explained. “Handmade bags at affordable prices.”

And, she add, this festival is about friendships.

“It really is a great festival,” Lahey said.

“You really get to know the people who attend it and they become family. We’ve done many festivals but the Apple Festival has a special feel you don’t find at every festival.”

Darlene Gisel, craft coordinator for the Apple Festival, said visitors will see a wide variety of crafters at this year’s event, from potters to painters, metal artists to stained glass window makers and just about everything in between.

“I think a lot of people come to the festival just to see the crafters,” Gisel said.

Gisel said she has crafters coming in from around the Midwest. The festival has developed such a strong reputation it draws

artists and crafters from beyond northeast Indiana. Artists from Illinois, Ohio, Michigan, Kentucky and North Carolina will be joining the festival this year.

Fort Wayne artist Linda Renner is returning again this year, and has been looking forward to this weekend for quite some time now.

“Oh, it’s a great festival, with one of the best crowds, too,” Renner said. “I’m always surprised at the size of the crowds that come to this smalltown festival. The Apple Festival rates right up there with all the bigger shows in the area.”

Renner makes small clay figurines and salt dough ornaments she said are popular as holiday gifts.

She added that the overall quality of the vendors selected for the festival draws big crowds often looking to start their holiday shopping, and that is good for business.

“The crowds are just great. That’s one of the reasons I keep coming back, great customers,” she said. “People here really seem to come out and enjoy the festival.”

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