The Old Wadena Society

Schedule

Saturday August 8th

9:30 am Jake Kaehne
11:00 am Curtis and Loretta
12: 00 Jake Kaehne
1:00 pm Boots and Needles
3:00 pm Jake Kaehne

Sunday August 9th

9:30 am Jake Kaehne
10:15 am Curtis and Loretta
12:00 pm Jake Kahne
2:15 pm Jake Kaehne

*Traditional type music played through out both days provided by the Sound Technician – Bryon Lalum

Artisan Demonstrations – Saturday & Sunday, 10:00 am to 4:00 pm

Wheel thrown pottery – Lowell Bayerkohler
Build a birdhouse – Jon and Darlys Hamberg
Face/hand painting – Beth Kern Bees and honey – Dan Kern
Blacksmithing – Mike Hoffman
Geology and ecology of Old Wadena – Dick Oehlenschlager
Leathersmith – Cliff Fegert
Lacemaker – Gail Johnson
Clothing of the Fur Trade – Rae Lindquist

RED RIVER TRAIL

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

MEMBERS/SUPPORTERS

PHOTOGRAPH GALLERY
Old Wadena Park and the
Crow Wing River

MAP/DIRECTIONS
To the Old Wadena Park

SCHEDULE
Rendezvous and
Folklife Schedules

OTHER PROJECTS
Learn about the Bog Walk interpretive project, Conservation Days, and classes in the folk arts.

SUPPORT
Volunteer, become a member, make a financial gift.

LINKS or CONTACT US

Old Wadena County Park is located at 13491 Old Wadena Circle, Staples, MN 56479

Turk's Cap Lily Old Wadena Society Rendezvous

Turk's Cap Lily Old Wadena Society Rendezvous

Turk's Cap Lily was formerly a common roadside flower in Wadena County. Today it is limited by extensive roadside mowing.

Welcome to Old Wadena

The Old Wadena Society sponsors the annual Old Wadena Rendezvous and Folklife Festival every August in the Old Wadena Park as part of its mission to share information about the natural environment and history of this area of north-central Minnesota. The park is situated on the banks of the Crow Wing River, one of the best canoe rivers in Minnesota. The festival showcases two days of great acoustic music, storytelling for all, Anishinaabe dance and drum, Rendezvouers demonstrating 1840s skills and living coniditions, and artists and artisans displaying their work. In addition the Society carries out other educational and interpretive work about the environment and history of the region.

Our location

A map and directions to Old Wadena County Historic Park will help you get to the park. Its location on the Crow Wing River between the Crow Wing's confluence with the Partridge and the Leaf Rivers in north-central Minnesota was an important hunting and trapping area for Indians and later for the French. Today the park is the centerpiece to a string of parks with campsites along the Crow Wing River in Wadena County. The Park is north and west of Staples and north and east of the city of Wadena in Wadena County.