THURSDAY | SEPTEMBER 22

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!





Behind the Scenes Tour
September 23 - 24
10:30am - 2:30pm
 
Explore the mansion from top to bottom in this special tour and get an extended glimpse into the life of a historic house museum.

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!

 






 




Extended Hours - Enjoy an Evening in the Village
September 24
10am - 7pm 
 
Enjoy the 1880s village during the evening and try Games in the Grove, join a lantern-lit walk in the village, and enjoy the sights and smells of an heirloom garden at twilight. Pack a picnic, bring your blanket and enjoy the village on a warm September evening.
Cornish Festival
Crowdy Crawn
September 24
11am - 5pm


Hear a storyteller recount folk tales and legends that have endured for generations in Cornwall and watch demonstrations on basket making, butter making, spinning, rug hooking, and quilting.

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.


 








 




Home School Days
September 27 - 28
10am - 3pm
 
Join us for specially designed field trip days for small educational groups. Self-guide around the site at your own pace and have access to the activities of school field trips and the interpreters' attention.

Sordid and Scandalous: Lake Geneva Walking Tour
October 1
11am - 12:30pm
 
Hear the gossip of Lake Geneva including the dish on a 1950s bank robbery, the town's tie to prohibition gangsters, and tales of the Lake Geneva sea serpent. Tour includes more on the sordid and scandalous past of downtown and the historic Maple Park neighborhoods.
Hidden History of the Capitol Square Walking Tour
October 4
5:30 - 7pm


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!








 








 
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