THURSDAY | SEPTEMBER 8

Learn to Drive
(A Team of Horses)
September 10
8:45am - 5pm
 
Experience this hands-on course to learn how to prepare a horse for harnessing, harnessing a horse, hitching a team to a wagon, driving basics, and unharnessing.





Rousing with the Roosters Breakfast
September 10
8 - 11am
 
Try the 19th-century lifestyle by working together in the Schottler bakehouse to prepare a sunrise meal the same way many early immigrant farmers did. Work up an appetite by feeding farm animals and tending to gardens.
Hidden History of the Capitol Square Walking Tour
September 13
5:30pm
 
Discover how the downtown has changed (and stayed the same!) over hundreds of years. How did a marsh-covered isthmus become the Madison we know today? Join us and find out!

 






 




Legends and Landmarks: Lake Geneva Walking Tour
September 15
6 - 7:30pm 
 
Explore Lake Geneva and learn which buildings were designed by famous architects, which have a colorful past, and which significant structures were lost to neglect or the wrecking ball.
 
Wo-Zha-Wa Weekend
September 16 - 18
9am - 5pm


Stroll downtown Wisconsin Dells during this festival named for the Ho-Chunk phrase meaning "to have fun." Explore carnival rides, food stands, sidewalk sales, an arts, antiques and crafts fair, and the Wo-Zha-Wa Parade.
Oktoberfest
September 17
4pm - 7pm 


Find plenty of good cheer and Gem�tlichkeit as you visit Old World Wisconsin's German farms. Try your luck at the games and raise your stein to this fun event hosted by the Old World Foundation.
 






 




Cornish Festival Pub Night
September 23
7 - 10pm
 
Experience live Celtic music, traditional pub games, and a cash bar serving beer, wine, and old-fashioned soda. Celebrate with an evening of music, spirits, and fun!
Great River Road Fall Festival
September 24
10am - 5pm
 
Celebrate the Great River Road with music, an antique tractor pull, wagon rides, sorghum making, blacksmithing, broom making, and more. See why the Great River Road in Wisconsin was voted the "Prettiest Drive" in America by the readers of the Huffington Post!

 
Anishinaabe Cultural Days: Commemorating the Treaty of 1854
September 24 - 25
10am - 5pm


Join us for this special event featuring Ojibwe music and art demonstrations, an exhibit on Ojibwe treaty rights, and screenings on the Sandy Lake tragedy and Chief Buffalo's journey to Washington, D.C.








 








 
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