Wild West Weekend - Produced by Ushers Ferry -- NEW SITE
Saturday, September 13, 2008
11:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Produced by Ushers Ferry Historic Village
The City of Cedar Rapids Parks and Recreation Department has announced that the Ushers Ferry Wild West Weekend gang will be taking its show on the road to Squaw Creek Park in Marion for a special performance of historical demonstrations and old-west gunfights to seclebrate and support Ushers Ferry Historic Village.
The event will feature a living history encampment and boomtown "tent city" with period music and demonstrations of open fire cooking, blacksmithing, roping, horsemanship and other period skills and crafts. In addition, reenactors will perform a variety of historical skits and gunfights throughout the day and special Old West Melodrama performance will be give by the Ushers Ferry Parlour Theatre players.
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