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Apple Festival of Kendallville
schedule of events
Crafts Demonstrations Primitive Area Food Antiques & Collectibles
Childrens Area Log Homestead Contests
Saturday: 9 a.m. - 6 p.m. Sunday: 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Join the fun at the Noble County Fairgrounds, U.S. 6 Kendallville
Visit us at facebook.com/applefest or www.kendallvilleapplefestival.org for festival information and updates.
October 1 & 2, 2011
Saturday: 9:30, 10:45, 12:00, 1:15 & 2:30
Sunday: 10:45, 12:00, 1:15, 2:30 & 3:45
Parking $3.00 on Fair Grounds.
Free Shuttle Service.
ATM on site.
Pets are not allowed on Apple Festival grounds or
Main St. Village unless licensed as service animals.
No scooters, bicycles, skateboards, roller blades
allowed on Festival grounds or Main Street Village.
First Aid Supplies ~ Chamber of Commerce, 122 S. Main St.
For Additional Information Contact:
Kendallville Park & Recreation Dept.
211 Iddings Street,
P.O. Box 516, Kendallville, IN 46755
Phone 260-347-1064
Main Street Village
(located downtown Kendallville)
Wonderful foods to your liking - crafts of all kinds. Check out
our shops downtown. Returrning this year is Echo Valley (Blue
Grass) Band and Marks Ark and animals. Come take a walk
with us down 19th Century Main Street. Check out our historical
window displays and make sure to visit our merchants in their
period clothing and check out their wonderful wares. Two
great days to just let your mind drift elsewhere and enjoy. Free
parking available in off-street lots. Ride free bus to/from the
fairgrounds.
9 a.m. Greg Jowasis - Open Prairie Stage
Apple Chords - Settlers Roost
10 a.m. Stockdale Family - Open Prairie Stage
Suzanne & Jim - Settlers Roost
Hastey Pudding Puppets - Dekko Little Pioneer Stage
11 a.m. Reader the Magnicent - Open Prairie Stage
Johnny Appleseed - Settlers Roost
George & Michele Schricker - Dekko Little Pioneer Stage
12 p.m. Suzanne & Jim - Open Prairie Stage
Greg Jowasis - Settlers Roost
Liza & Mark Woolever - Dekko Little Pioneer Stage
1 p.m. Inclognito Cloggers - Open Prairie Stage
Apple Chords - Settlers Roost
Hastey Pudding Puppets - Dekko Little Pioneer Stage
2 p.m. Reader the Magnicent - Open Prairie Stage
Stockdale Family - Settlers Roost
Johnny Appleseed - Dekko Little Pioneer Stage
3 p.m. Inclognito Cloggers - Open Prairie Stage
Suzanne & Jim - Settlers Roost
George & Michele Schricker - Dekko Little Pioneer Stage
4 p.m. Stockdale Family - Open Prairie Stage
Johnny Appleseed - Settlers Roost
Liza & Mark Woolever - Dekko Little Pioneer Stage
Saturday Sunday
Raise-A-Ruckus - Show Arena
Contest Schedule
9 a.m. Suzanne & Jim - Settlers Roost
10 a.m. Apple Chords - Open Prairie Stage
Greg Jowasis - Settlers Roost
Hastey Pudding Puppets - Dekko Little Pioneer Stage
11 a.m. Apple Jack Kloggers - Open Prairie Stage
Wes Linenkugal Quartet - Settlers Roost
George & Michele Schricker - Dekko Little Pioneer Stage
12 p.m. Rosewood - Open Prairie Stage
Reader the Magnicent - Settlers Roost
Johnny Appleseed - Dekko Little Pioneer Stage
1 p.m. Wes Linenkugal Quartet - Open Prairie Stage
Apple Chords - Settlers Roost
Liza & Mark Woolever - Dekko Little Pioneer Stage
2 p.m. Greg Jowasis - Open Prairie Stage
Stockdale Family - Settlers Roost
Hastey Pudding Puppets - Dekko Little Pioneer Stage
3 p.m. Apple Jack Kloggers - Open Prairie Stage
Apple Chords - Settlers Roost
George & Michele Schricker - Dekko Little Pioneer Stage
4 p.m. Reader the Magnicent - Open Prairie Stage
Suzanne & Jim - Settlers Roost
Liza & Mark Woolever - Dekko Little Pioneer Stage
5 p.m. Stockdale Family - Open Prairie Stage
Rosewood - Settlers Roost
Festival Favorite Food - Stop by the information booth & vote for your favorite food.
Sat. All Day Sunday: 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Winner will be announced Sun. at 4:00 p.m.
Frog-Flippin - Childrens Area - Sat. 10 a.m. Sun. 2:30 p.m.
Apple Baking Contest - Judging at 10:30 a.m. in the Steer Barn - Entries must be received Saturday
between 9-10:30 a.m. Organized by Sweet Church Community Organization. Sponsored by St.
James Restaurant and Meijer Stores. Sat. 10:30 a.m., Sunday N/A
Apple Seed Spitting - Childrens Area - Sat. 12:30 p.m. Sun. 10 a.m.
Baked Goods Auction - Entries from the Apple Baking contest are auctioned in the
Steer Barn. - Sat. 1:00 p.m., Sun. N/A
Ladies Skillet Throw - North End of Primitive Area - Sat. 1:30 p.m. Sun. 11 a.m.
Must be in costume.
Tomahawk Throw - North End of Primitive Area - Sat. 2 p.m. Sun. 11:30 a.m. Must be in costume.
BY DENNIS NARTKER
dennisn@kpcnews.net
KENDALLVILLE A festival with an
$80,000 budget that annually attracts some
70,000 visitors began in 1985 with a
$5,000 budget and four local organizers.
Gary and Kay Shepherd, Barb Kelley
and Kathy Baker wanted their small town
to have a festival. They began with a small
budget and had to encourage crafters to
participate that first year. The Kendallville
Lions Club was the first food vendor to
sign on, and there were only six antique
dealers.
At one point the Shepherds, Kelley and
Baker wondered who would show up
because it seemed most of Kendallvilles
population volunteered to work at the
event, said Amanda Taylor, the festivals
full-time coordinator. Much to their relief,
people streamed into the fairgrounds, and
later on to Main Street Village in the citys
downtown. The Apple Festival Committee
has grown to 40 volunteers.
The 26th annual Apple Festival of
Kendallville will be Saturday, Oct. 1, from
9 a.m. to 6 p.m., and Sunday, Oct. 2, from
9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the fairgrounds and in
downtown Kendallville. Parking at the
fairgrounds is $3. A free shuttle service
will operate between the venues and
parking areas at East Noble High School
and No-Sag on Allen Chapel Road.
Visitors can wander the festival venues
enjoying the pioneer-theme food vendors,
free entertainment, antiques, homemade
crafts, the primitive area and demonstra-
tions by skilled craft makers. Children can
have fun in the Dekko Childrens Pioneer
Craft Village making clay models,
necklaces and corn husk dolls. In the
Childrens Games area will be face
painting, candle dipping, a straw maze,
pony rides and a swing and rope bridge.
More than 100 homemade craft vendors
will be selling their wares at the
fairgrounds and Main Street Village.
Visitors can purchase unique Christmas
gifts. The fairgrounds Primitive Area is
where visitors can barter for homemade
blankets, blacksmith items, jewelry, leather
clothes, wooden shoes, wood toys and
western supplies.
More than 20 antique vendors will be
set up in the fairgrounds Merchants
Building, selling furniture, glassware,
quilts, pottery, folk art, crockery, school
books, toys, holiday decorations,
collectibles, advertising and linens.
The popular pioneer contests for anyone
include apple seed spitting, a ladies skillet
throw, a Tomahawk throw, frog flipping
and an apple baking challenge.
Food is a major draw, and 40 vendors at
the fairgrounds and several more in the
Main Street Village will entice visitors
with their offerings. For many local
nonprofit organizations, groups and
churches, the festival is their main
fundraiser for the year. Volunteers spend
countless hours preparing food for sale on
the weekend. Much of it is made on-site.
FOOD OFFERINGS AT THE FAIRGROUNDS
INCLUDE: New Brunswick Stew, hot and
cold cider, hot chocolate, fudge, rock
suckers, chocolate-covered maple creams,
apple pies, roast hog sandwiches, baked
potatoes, apple fritters, onion rings, corn
dogs, ice cream cones, southwest chicken
soup, pork rinds, elephant ears, French
onion soup, caramel corn, buffalo burgers,
smoked turkey legs, chicken and noodles,
apple dumplings, pork tenderloin
sandwiches, ham and beans, corn bread,
porkburgers, beef and noodles, chicken
wings, appleburgers, pretzels and caramel
apples.
Vendors in the Main Street Village will
have barbecue pork sandwiches, apple
fries and turkey legs among its food items.
All day continuous free entertainment is
scheduled both days at both festival
venues. At the Fairgrounds the Open
Prairie Stage will have live entertainment,
including cloggers, singers and comedians,
from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and 9 a.m.
to 4 p.m. Sunday. The Settlers Roost will
have musicians, singers and comedians
Saturday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday
from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. For children the
Dekko Little Pioneer Stage will have
puppeteers, storytellers and comedians
Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 4
p.m.
East Noble Theatre and Music Depart-
ments will present the musical cabaret
Raise A Ruckus five times on each day
in the Show Arena.
In the Main Street Village magicians,
comedians, musicians and singers will be
on stage Saturday and Sunday from 10
a.m. to 4 p.m.
Visitors should pickup a free festival
brochure for a complete schedule of events
and a map of festival sites and parking
areas.
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Apple Fest continues tradition
of fun, food, crafts
FILE PHOTO
The Apple
Festival of
Kendallville
annually
attracts
thousands of
people from the
tri-state area to
the Noble
County
Fairgrounds
and the Main
Street Village in
downtown
Kendallville.
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BY CRAIG HAUPERT
chaupert@kpcnews.net
KENDALLVILLE Fred Meyer
might have the most interesting instrument
of the many entertainers coming to
Kendallvilles Apple Festival.
Meyer, of Clear Creek, Ind., is known
as the Hurdy-Gurdy Man at the festivals
and fairs he frequents. His name comes
from the instrument he carries, the hurdy-
gurdy.
Sometimes called the wheel fiddle, the
hurdy-gurdy is a stringed instrument that
produces sound by a crank-turned rosined
wheel rubbing against the strings.
Meyer said peoples reactions to the
instrument are often the same.
Most of the time theyve never seen
something like it before, so they are
surprised, he said. Sometimes people
confuse it with an organ grinder, but that
instrument is like a big music box that
plays the same song over and over again
through mechanical means. The instrument
I play creates the melody. Most people say
it sounds like a bagpipe.
Meyer has performed at the Apple
Festival at least two times in the past, but
both times he was on stage. This year he
will be roaming the Noble County
Fairgrounds along with performer Johnny
Appleseed.
What I am doing in Kendallville is
what I like to do the best, Meyer said. I
am walking around playing this instrument
and talking to people. When you are on
stage there is that separation. I like the
direct contact with the people I am playing
to. It is much more immediate and much
more personal.
Meyer played the guitar in the 1960s
and was introduced to folk instruments by
way of the mountain dulcimer in the mid-
1970s. He saw someone playing a hurdy-
gurdy for the first time at a festival in the
late 1970s and decided to go about buying
one. Meyer purchased a custom-made one
from France for about $2,000 in 1989 and
has been the Hurdy-Gurdy Man ever
since.
It has turned out to be very much
worth it because of its unique factor,
Meyer said. There are a couple builders
in the U.S. now but it really is a European
tradition, especially in certain parts of
France it is a very active and thriving
tradition. Ive seen at festivals in France
where there are hundreds of kids playing
hurdy-gurdys and people are dancing to
them.
Meyer wont be the only entertainer
playing folk music at the Apple Festival.
Greg Jowaisas will bring his unique
brand of music to the Open Prairie Stage
at 2 p.m. Saturday and at 9 a.m. Sunday.
He will also be playing at Settler Roost at
10 a.m. Saturday and noon Sunday.
Jowaisas, of Covington, Ky., is a former
teacher turned folk music artist.
I taught one year before I learned my
future did not lie in the classroom, he
said. My real emphasis in college was
playing banjo and following folk music.
That was my true interest.
The call of the wild banjo proved too
strong.
Jowaisas performs at various fairs,
festivals and schools across the country.
This is his 10th time performing at the
Apple Festival.
His program will include what he calls
old mountain music played on instru-
ments such as the banjo, guitar, hammered
dulcimer and auto harp. I will also be
playing the Irish and Scottish music that a
lot of our American folk music came
from, he said. The teacher in me has
never left my performing venues so I like
to give my audience a little bit of
background of each song, a taste of
history. The music always comes first, but
it is a little package of history and music I
try to present.
Husband and wife musical act, Liza &
Mark Woolever, of Plymouth, will be
performing on the Dekko Little Pioneer
Stage at 1 p.m. and 4 p.m. Saturday and
noon and 4 p.m. Sunday.
The Woolevers will perform material
that was popular hundreds or thousands of
years ago.
As a child grooving out to the Beatles,
I was always wondering what would I be
singing and dancing to had I been placed
on this earth 500 years ago? said Liza
Woolever. Thats why we prefer to
perform historical music.
The Woolevers invite anyone interested
to play their rhythm instruments as they
perform certain songs.
Its is fun to get people started on
jamming because that is one of the most
fun things you can do in life, Liza
Woolever said.
Hurdy-Gurdy Man roams grounds
Fred Meyer, known as the Hurdy-Gurdy Man at festivals and fairs, will be
playing the hurdy-gurdy during this years Kendallville Apple Festival. The unique
European instrument is often confused with an organ grinder and sounds like a
bagpipe. Meyer can be found roaming the Noble County Fairgrounds during both
days of the festival.
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BY MATT GETTS
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KENDALLVILLE Measuring the
lasts comes first.
In Cliff Pequets world as a shoemaker,
it makes perfect sense.
Pequet will be demonstrating his trade
at the Apple Festival of Kendallville this
year in the Log Cabin at the Noble County
Fairgrounds. Other log cabin demonstrators
at this years Apple Festival will include
Karen Mabee and her penny rug making,
Debra Carr and her weaving and Talia
Peterson and her spinning.
Demonstrating how things were done in
the 1800s is a fascinating way to learn
about Americas past. For many demonstra-
tors, it has become a passion.
For Pequet, 62, its become a big part of
his life six days a week anyway.
Pequets shoe shop, Sign of the Boot
Leather Shop in Shipshewana, is open that
many days a week.
I had trouble thinking you could make
a living making shoes, Pequet said. Ive
found more and more people dont have a
standard foot.
And that is where the last comes in first.
The last, in shoemaking vernacular, is
the outer shell of the shoe or boot, critical
to making a perfect fit. And a perfect fit is
what custom shoes are all about.
Today, a shoe is made by measuring the
length of the foot. Another measurement is
taken by measuring the widest point of the
foot.
Pequet said this is comparable to
holding up a yardstick to find the widest
spot at the waist, then simply guessing on
the persons circumference when
purchasing a belt.
When Pequet makes a shoe or boot, he
takes measurements in eight or nine spots,
including the circumference of the foot.
If the measurements arent taken
properly, the entire shoe may not be
wearable.
With so many people having different
shapes and sizes to their feet, finding a
truly properly fitting shoe is difficult in this
day and age of mass production.
Weve been using standard lasts,
Pequet said.
Pequet makes shoes that truly do fit the
individual customer. Its a time-consuming
process, he said, 18-32 hours depending
on the shoe or boot, the complexity of it.
There are up to 208 steps in making a
shoe.
Pequet will be bringing shoes and boots
in various stages of completion to the
Apple Festival.
Its fascinating to understand how
things were done in the past, Pequet said.
Its quite amazing where weve come
from.
An authority on how things were done
200 and even 300 years ago, Pequet has
worked at a period museum in Archibold,
Ohio, and at Colonial Williamsburg in
Williamsburg, Va.
Through the Center of Traditional Arts
in Shipshewana, Pequet offers people the
chance to learn how things were made in
the past.
He recently returned from a teaching
venture in upstate New York, near Albany.
Log Cabin to host Apple Fest demonstrators
Cliff Pequet holds an old shoe at his
shop in Shipshewana. Pequet will be
demonstrating the art of shoe making
at this years Apple Festival.
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He spent seven days in a 1793 tavern,
immersed in the life of more than 200
years ago. Meals were cooked over an
open fire and he slept in a bed that was
rope-slatted.
It was an ideal spot for making shoes,
Pequet said.
It used to be shoes were made to be
repaired, he said. The heels are the first
thing to wear on any shoe. Next comes the
soles.
Penny rugs
Just as the shoes made today have
almost nothing in common with produc-
tion methods of 100 years ago, so too has
the language and meanings of words
changed.
Take penny rugs, for example. In
pioneer and early-American times, rugs
had a different meaning than it has today.
They are not floor coverings, Mabee
said. They are table coverings or bed
coverings.
Mabee will be demonstrating the
techniques used to make these coverings
at the log cabin during the Apple Festival.
The typical mentality of the day was
not to waste a thing, Mabee, a resident of
Fort Wayne, said.
When cotton clothing wore out, it was
normally turned into quilts. When wool
clothing wore out, it was often turned into
into penny rugs.
According to Mabee, who has been
demonstrating the technique for more than
a decade, women of the day would cut out
still usable wool circles.
They would stitch the smaller ones to
the larger ones, Mabee said.
The circles could be layered together to
make them thicker, or could have stood
alone.
Mabee said she believes there are two
theories about the term penny rug.
The first theory is that coins were used
as patterns in the making of the coverings.
The second is that people during that time
period would often throw their loose
change into the tables coverings as they
put them away. By putting their coinage in
these linens, they were hiding them from
thieves.
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BY BOB BRALEY
bobb@kpcnews.net
KENDALLVILLE A 12-year-old
bluegrass singer and a Sunday morning
worship service will be new attractions at
the Apple Festival of Kendallvilles Main
Street Village Oct. 1-2.
Allison Green, a 12-year-old who sings
bluegrass and gospel music, will be a new
featured attraction for the village, said
Summer Moser, an organizer for Main
Street Village at the festival.
Green has her own YouTube channel
featuring her videos.
Also added this year will be a worship
service in the Main Street Village Sunday at
9 a.m., Moser said.
Back again for 2011 are several popular
features that were new in 2010, Moser said.
One of those is the Kids Peep Shows by
Mr. and Mrs. Pat Richardson, who walk
around the village area with different boxes
that let the viewer see scenes such as an
ocean view, Moser said. The Richardsons
also have puppets and marionettes and ride
miniature horses, all adding to the fun they
bring.
Other second-time returnees include
Timmys Barbecue, which offers giant
turkey legs and pulled pork, and the
Masons, whose battered, deep-fried apple
peels were a big hit in 2010, according to
Mason.
Longer-term favorites back again include
beef and noodles, fritters, pork burgers from
Jerrys Barbecue and the treats of Sweet
Tooth Chocolates, Moser said.
Familiar performers returning include Dr.
Barths Old Fashioned Medicine Show,
Chris Vallilo and Jim Barrons Magic Show,
Moser said.
Vendors wont be limited to food, with
others selling their wares from booths lining
downtown Kendallvilles Main Street.
Among the items for sale will be handmade
soaps, lotions, candles, knitted wear and
purses.
Walking storytellers will also share
stories from Indiana in the village.
Main Street Village will be open during
the Apple Festivals regular hours of 9 a.m.
to 6 p.m. Oct. 1 and 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Oct. 2.
Shuttle bus service will run between the
village, Noble County Fairgrounds and
parking areas for the festival.
Dr. Barths Old-Fashioned Medicine
Show, The Biggest Little Show on
Earth, will be returning once again to
the Apple Festival of Kendallvilles
Main Street Village Oct. 1-2.
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The Apple Chords are one of Noble
Countys longest-running entertainment acts,
having sung for their fans, in one form or
another, since 1976. But this years Apple
Festival seems to be marking the beginning
of the end for the stylized vocal group.
The Apple Chords will perform five times
at the festival; three shows on Saturday and
two on Sunday. After that, the five Apple
Chord members have decided to do just one
more concert before hanging it up.
THE GROUPS CURRENT MEMBERS ARE:
Al Huth, primary lead tenor;
Harold Sollenberger, primary baritone,
and director;
Fred Inniger, primary bass;
Garth Coons, primary first tenor; and
Kevin Ramer, keyboards and fifth voice,
Huth and Sollenberger have been with the
group from its beginnings, when it started out
as a quartet. Many people forget the groups
original name was The Harmonnaires.
They were know by that name from 1976
through the mid-1990s. It wasnt until they
became a regular part of the apple festivals
entertainment offerings that the name Apple
Chords was given to them.
But time is catching up with the men, who
listed a variety of reasons for wanting to
retire their act. They tentatively have just one
more show booked. They will play the
Kendallville Lions Christmas banquet on
Dec. 5, and then call it quits.
Im sure we are going to miss it, said
Sollenberger of the groups end. But its
been a terrific trip; we all get along well
together, but age and health problems are
catching up with us. Sometimes its hard to
find the energy to practice. And hauling
equipment around is not as much fun as it
used to be.
Inniger joined the group in 1981 but is
well versed in its founding and history over
the years.
The first-ever performance by the quartet
came in a local community theater produc-
tion of The Music Man, according to
Inniger.
They needed a quartet and these four
fellows came together to sing in that play,
Inniger said.
The makeup of that original foursome is
still not set in concrete. Many people
remember the original Apple Chords of being
Sollenberger and Huth, along with Jim
Cauhorn and Gordon Cherrington. But
Sollengberger believes Pastor John Weeks
was part of the quartet that performed in
The Music Man but was replaced soon
after by Cauhorn.
The group received praise for their singing
in the community theater, and started getting
requests to perform at other venues.
Sollenberger said the group started off
doing just a few shows here and there before
momentum carried their popularity to new
heights over the years.
The style of music has changed over the
years, he said.
We started out doing barbershop but soon
decided we wanted to do a variety of things,
Sollenberger recalled. So we took to doing
gospel, popular songs and old classics. We
even did some humorous songs just about
anything, so we could give a variety type of
show.
Most of the groups performances have
been within a 50-mile radius of Kendallville,
he said.
Weve played in Fort Wayne and even at
Wawasee, he noted. There was a period of
time we were doing shows at state parks, and
some of those audiences would be several
hundred people.
The groups venues have ranged from the
Noble County Concert Series with 350
people in the audience, to weddings with just
a few dozen listeners.
Personnel changes over the years have
included the addition of a keyboardist. At one
point in the 1980s, a woman, the late Cosy
Irons, was a part of the Apple Chords. She
was a music school teacher and could play
just about anything, Inniger said.
About 10 years ago, Ramer and Coons
joined the group.
Inniger, who has been a radio personality
in Noble County for more than a quarter
century, said the groups retirement will be a
mixed blessing.
Were all getting up in age, and the group
has gone on since 1976, Inniger said. But
now were all older, we have grandkids and
vacations, and were retired for the most
part, he said.
Its also hard for us to all be available at
the same time. We just decided things have
gone well enough, and figured its time to
retire before were asked not to perform, he
said with a laugh.
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End approaching for Apple Chords groups
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Festival of Kendallville. In the front, from left, are Al Huth and Garth Coons. In the
back row are Harold Sollenberger, Kevin Ramer and Fred Inniger.
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KENDALLVILLE The Apple Festival
of Kendallville will have more primitives
participants this year because of a lack of
schedule conflicts, Dr. Tom Jansen said.
Weve got vendors coming in we usually
dont see, Jansen said.
The Kendallville chiropractor, who is one
of those working with the primitive area at the
festival, said that there are two area festivals
that often draw away those who would do re-
enactments and share the wares that might
have been sold between 1760 and 1840.
Most years, one or both of those festivals
are on the same weekend as the Apple
Festival, but thats not true this year, Jansen
said. That frees those demonstrators up to
come to Kendallville.
There are 21 participating re-enactments in
the primitive area at the festival this year.
One of the new people in the primitives
area will be Ernie Marvin, who works with
furs in the way people in the fur trade would
have done in the nations past.
Marvin, of Grand Haven, Mich., deals only
in furs that are legal to sell or use, Jansen said.
He makes them into items such as fur mittens,
bags and hats.
Marvin and his wife, Vicki Marvin, own
the Two Bears Trading Co. in Grand Haven.
Its a mail-order and Internet site for people
wanting historic-style furs and leathers and for
historical re-enactors like the Marvins.
Other people new to the primitives area
this year will be a man who makes knives and
tomahawks by hand and a bead-maker and
trader, Jansen said. Beads were used
extensively for trade back in the trapping
days.
Popular people from past festivals, such as
Majenica Creek Honey Farm and blacksmiths
George Clark III and Josh Clark, will return
again this year, Jansen said.
Also back for the 2011 festival will be two
popular events the tomahawk throw and,
for women, the skillet toss, Jansen said.
Items available will include dream
catchers, childrens toys, jewelry and silver
items.
The primitive area will again be on the
west side of the Noble County Fairgrounds
near the first aid station and the Open Prairie
Stage.
Primitives area benefits from schedule
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Ernie Marvin, right, stands with his
wife, Vicki Marvin, at their business in
Grand Haven, Mich. Ernie Marvin will
bring his fur trade to the primitives
area of the Apple Festival of Kendall-
ville Oct. 1-2.
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KENDALLVILLE The sights and
sounds of the Apple Festival of Kendallville
always lead to the smell and taste of all the
delicious foods that can be found during the
two-day event.
In addition to the history and the crafts, the
great food is perhaps the biggest draw for the
festival. Theres no shortage of good things to
eat, and definitely no lack of variety.
No one can deny that they come to the
festival for the food, said Kathy Young of
Kendallville, who chairs the festivals food
committee with her husband, Pat.
Another hallmark of the festival food is its
consistency over the years. All of the favorites
will be back at the 2011 festival.
Included in those regular offerings are
apple fritters and appleburgers, of course, as
well as baked potatoes, (sweet and regular),
with toppings.
Onion rings and porkburgers are popular
standbys, as well as beef and noodles or
chicken and noodles, hot chicken sandwiches,
as well as grilled cheese sandwiches, roast
hog sandwiches, New Brunswick stew,
buffalo burgers, fish sandwiches, smoked
turkey legs, fried bologna sandwiches, and
homemade apple dumplings.
There will be 37 food stands offering
different foods at every booth, including three
new food vendors. One new booth will be
serving the often-requested tenderloin
sandwich, another is offering mini-donuts,
and the third will have Filipino egg rolls made
with sausage and shrimp.
Breakfast food will also be available, as
always. Early eaters can enjoy pancakes,
biscuits and gravy and egg sandwiches.
Since its close to fall, festival-goers can
enjoy many types of hot and delicious soups,
including ham and bean, vegetable, white
chili, potato, southwest chicken, chili and
French onion.
Like sweets? The festival has you covered
with fudge, caramel apples, pretzels, elephant
ears, caramel corn, pork rinds, maple creams,
ice cream, or a slice of pumpkin roll, apple
pie, and just about every other kind of pie you
can imagine.
The following is a list of the food vendors
and their offerings at this years Kendallville
Apple Festival.
FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH: New
Brunswick Stew, roll, fruit kabobs, coffee, hot
chocolate, hot and cold cider.
GAMMA XI CHAPTER TRI KAPPA: Sliced
apples with choice of caramel or peanut butter
caramel topped with chopped peanuts or
chocolate sauce, water.
PROFESSIONAL/BUSINESS WOMENS
ASSOCIATION: Fudge, cookies, rock suckers.
SWEET TOOTH: Chocolate covered maple
creams, solid chocolate suckers.
IMMACULATE CONCEPTION CHURCH
ROSARY SODALITY: Whole apple pies, regular
and sugar free, apple pie slices, coffee.
NOBLE COUNTY COMMUNITY FAIR BOARD:
Roast hog sandwiches, hot and cold cider,
soft serve ice cream (apple, cinnamon,
caramel).
THE ALMOND GARDEN: German roasted
almonds, pecans, and cashews.
KENDALLVILLE FIRST CHURCH OF GOD:
Baked potatoes with toppings (cheddar
cheese, nacho cheese, broccoli, chili, butter,
and sour cream); baked sweet potatoes with
toppings (marshmallow, cinnamon butter,
caramel) chili, soft drinks.
EAST NOBLE BAND BOOSTERS: Haystack
potatoes and cheese.
ST. JOHN LUTHERAN SCHOOL PTL: Apple
fritters.
FAITH UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: Onion
rings, corn dogs, hot dogs, chili dogs, tea.
WILLIAM S. LEITER: Hot apple cobbler
with ice cream, pioneer steak fries with
cheese, ice cream cones (vanilla, chocolate,
strawberry, pecan).
KENDALLVILLE WOMEN OF THE MOOSE:
Fish sandwich and baskets, southwest
chicken soup, soft drinks.
KAPPA, KAPPA, KAPPA, INC. ETA THETA
CHAPTER, ALBION: IBC Root Beer.
J & K EGG ROLLS: Filipino egg rolls made
with sausage and shrimp.
DESTINY FAMILY OF FAITH: Mini-
doughnuts.
EAST NOBLE ARCHERY: Pork tenderloins,
soft drinks.
PIGGY PUFF PORK RINDS: Pork rinds and
cracklings.
MINDY PEPITONE: Elephant ears, curly
fries, lemonade shake-ups, soft drinks.
BAYOU BILLY SODA: Old fashioned soda in
tin mugs (sarsaparilla, cream soda, rootbeer,
lemonade, cherry, strawberry, orange, sugar
free).
BREAD OF LIFE TABERNACLE: French onion
soup, pumpkin rolls, soft drinks, coffee,
water, hot chocolate.
SOUTH MILFORD FIREMANS CLUB: Potato
soup, grilled cheese sandwich, fried bologna
sandwich, iced tea, coffee, lemonade.
KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS, COUNCIL 7839:
Buffalo burgers, brats and kraut, hot dogs,
chili dogs, soft drinks, coffee, hot cocoa,
water.
DELTA THETA TAU: Caramel corn, water.
HARBOR OF LOVE FUNDRAISING
COMMITTEE: Smoked turkey legs, white chili,
caramel apple cake, jalapeno corn bread, pop.
CALVARY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH:
Chicken and noodles, coffee.
LIFE & FAMILY SERVICES: Homemade
apple dumplings, ice cream, hot and cold
cider, coffee, water, tea.
KENDALLVILLE & BRIMFIELD LIONS CLUBS:
Ham and beans, cornbread, pop, iced tea,
water, coffee, hot chocolate, hot spiced cider,
cold cider, soft drinks.
BOY SCOUT TROOP 103: Pancakes,
sausage links, apple syrup, orange juice,
milk, Pepsi products, turkey sandwiches,
coffee.
SOUTH MILFORD LIONS CLUB: Porkburgers,
lemonade.
KENDALLVILLE ASSEMBLY OF GOD:
Vegetable beef soup, soft drinks, water,
coffee, hot chocolate.
BRIMFIELD UNITED METHODIST CHURCH:
Beef and noodles.
WAYNE CENTER UNITED METHODIST
CHURCH: Hot chicken sandwiches,
homemade pies, coffee, hot chocolate, soft
drinks.
KENDALLVILLE ROTARY CLUB: Chicken
wings, biscuits and gravy with egg, soft
drinks, water, coffee.
AVILLA LIONS CLUB: Appleburgers, apple
cheeseburgers, ham, eggs, coffee, hot
chocolate, hot and cold cider, pop, milk,
lemonade, hot and iced tea, water.
DRUG FREE NOBLE COUNTY: Pretzels
(plain, cream cheese, jalapeno), soft drinks,
hot cocoa, coffee, water.
BAKERS FRUIT & FLOWER FARM: Caramel
apples, turtle caramel apples, pickles on a
stick, apple butter, cider slush.
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BY DENNIS NARTKER
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KENDALLVILLE Its 45-minutes of
foot-stomping, rousing, audience-participa-
tion entertainment and its free of charge.
East Noble Theatre and Vocal Music
Departments Raise A Ruckus is now in
its 23rd year, and has become one of the
most popular shows at the Apple Festival of
Kendallville, Oct. 1 and 2, at the Noble
County Fairgrounds. Twenty-four singers
and dancers create this musical revue under
the direction of East Noble Theatre director
Craig Munk.
Raise A Ruckus plays to more than
6,000 festival-goers annually, said Munk.
The show, created especially for the Apple
Festival, is a blend of country, Broadway
and novelty numbers.
The sets, entrance way and ticket booth
were constructed by Munks high school
stage craft class. The Dairy and Beef Arena
is transformed into the Show Arena, an old-
time musical theatre with the audience
seated at tables and in bleachers. The dirt
floor, peanut shells and barn-like interior
give it that friendly country atmosphere with
waiters distributing peanuts.
Joining the 2011 cast of East Noble High
School students will be Miss Indiana Jackie
Jerlecki from Goshen and Kendallvilles
own Miss Indiana Outstanding Teen Brianna
DeCamp. The East Noble senior recently
competed in the Miss America Outstanding
Teen Pageant in Orlando, Fla.
Jerlecki and DeCamp will have solo
spots in all 10 performances over the two
days. They will also be on stage for the
traditional audience participation portion of
the show.
Performance times for Raise A Ruckus
are Saturday at 9:30 a.m., 10:45 a.m., noon,
1:15 p.m. and 2:30 p.m., and Sunday at
10:45 a.m., noon, 1:15 p.m., 2:30 p.m. and
3:45 p.m.
There is no charge for this event.
Apple Festival of Kendallville times are
Saturday from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Sunday
from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Parking is $3 at the
fairgrounds. A free shuttle service is
available from parking locations at East
Noble High School and No-Sag on Allen
Chapel Road to the fairgrounds and Main
Street Village in downtown Kendallville.
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Miss Indiana Jackie Jerlecki of Goshen,
right, and Indianas Miss Outstanding
Teen Brianna DeCamp of Kendallville,
left, will be special guests for all Raise
A Ruckus performances in the Show
Arena at the Noble County Fairgrounds
during the Apple Festival of Kendallville
on Oct. 1 and 2.
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BY MATT GETTS
mattg@kpcnews.net
KENDALLVILLE One of the pillars
to the success of the Apple Festival of
Kendallville has long been crafting.
Along with food and entertainment, the
chance to browse and purchase crafts of all
shapes, sizes and colors draws a large
throng of buyers and sellers to the Noble
County Fairgrounds and to Main Street
Village in downtown Kendallville.
Darlene Gisel has been coordinating the
crafters at the fairgrounds for 26 years.
When the craft area first opened, there
were 33 vendors selling their various
wares. That number has increased over the
years, and this years edition of the festival
will see 95 vendors.
We have a large, creative list of
crafters, Gisel said. We have participants
from seven states this year.
People can pretty much find a little bit
of everything at the Apple Festival, from
childrens items, recycled glass and wood
and cloth items to fall decor, florals,
ironworks, fine art, candles and carvings.
Shoppers will be able to choose from
the popular to the eccentric in their quest
for the perfect purchase.
New to this years crafting area will be
Connie Burns felted craft booth. Burns is
no stranger to the festival itself, but this
will be her first time having a booth.
Its one of my favorite festivals, Burns
said. Its got that primitive aspect to it. I
think our craft will fit in well.
Burns, who lives in Fort Wayne,
stumbled into making mittens and hats
from recycled wool items literally by
accident.
I got involved in crafting because me
husband had a very serious accident,
Burns said.
Burns mother-in-law, D.K. Burns, came
to help out at her house while her husband
recuperated. In the down time, the two
women needed something to do, Connie
Burns said.
Connie turned back the clock several
decades to something from her past.
As a young child we were taught to
make little pieces of wool, she said.
In her new project, Burns goes to the
Salvation Army and buys what she
describes as the old itchy wool sweaters
everyone likes to give away. She places the
sweaters in boiling water, then agitates the
fabric in a washer and then places it in a
dryer.
Once the fabric dries, Burns and her
mother-in-law turn it into one of a kind
items such as their mainstay mittens.
No two are alike, Connie Burns said.
That is our main item.
Kathleen Stone of Nappanee will be
marking her second year at the Apple
Festival of Kendallville. She will be
demonstrating her spinning wheel and will
also be selling wool yarn. But the center-
piece to her offerings may be the rugs she
weaves.
According to Stone, she will be bringing
something to fit most sizes or tastes.
I have all kinds of colors, she said.
Weaving is something that has been
passed down in her family.
My grandmother taught me to weave,
she said.
Several years ago, Stone started to
makes rugs for herself. Then she started to
make some for friends. Before she knew it,
It just sort of grew, she said.
Stone now sells her wares at approxi-
mately 10 festivals a year.
Kendallville is one of my favorites,
she said.
Stone cited the friendly people, the
period dress and the food as being big
factors to her enjoyment of the Apple
Festival of Kendallville. Her first year
selling her crafts was a big success, she
said.
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