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 Annual Events in and around Ellsworth: Call the Ellsworth Chamber of Commerce for details: 785.472.4071 January: Not much going on. Check out a good book from the J.H. Robbins Memorial library.  February:Lincoln Reenactment Celebration on the Saturday of President's Day Weekend. March: St. Patrick's Day Parade, Russell. Finish the book April: **Herb Day in Denmark. Last Saturday. Check the Denmark website for particulars. Spring Gathering C.O.W.B.O.Y Society, second weekend, usually. Call 785.472.4703 for details. End of the Trail Ranch Rodeo and Chuckwagon Cookoff. Information 472.471.4071 Messiah Festival, Palm Sunday and Easter, Lindsborg. May: Ellsworth County Health Fair, first weekend. Run for the Soul Motorcycle Poker Run. Information 785.472.5501 Ellsworth High School Reunion Activities and Memorial Day Functions, usually the last full weekend. Mill Fest, first weekend, Lindsborg. Kansas Sampler Festival, first full weekend. See www.kansassampler.org for details and location of the festival as it changes every two years.
El-Kan Junior Rodeo Living History Days at the Hodgden House Museum Complex. Information 785.472.3065 River Festival, second weekend, Salina. Mid Summer's Day Festival, Lindsborg. Sylvan Grove Community Days, Sylvan Grove. July: Star Spangled Spectacular (named by me, in perpetuity), fireworks galore, music, games, food, and many other roadside attractions to delight the entire family. Dates vary, but usually on the weekend before the 4th. Information for the Star Spangled Spectacular 785.472.4071 Frontier Military Living History and Fort Harker Days, Kanopolis, second weekend. Information 785.472.4732 The After Harvest Czech Days Festival in Wilson, last weekend. Information on Czech Festival 785.658.2211 August: Ellsworth–Kanopolis Cowtown Days Festival, first weekend. Information 785-472-4042 El-Kan Western Riders Rodeo. Information 785.472.4071 Tri Rivers Fair and Rodeo, Salina. September: St. Ignatius Mexican Fiesta, Labor Day weekend, Kanopolis. Post Rock Festival. Saturday of Labor Day weekend, Lincoln. Adam's Apple Festival, Saturday of Labor Day weekend, Lucas. Luray Friendship Day, Luray. Historic Fort Hays Days, Hays. October: Fall Gathering of the C.O.W.B.O.Y Society, third weekend, usually. Call 785.472.4703 for details. November: Ellsworth Fine Arts Club Arts and Crafts Show City of Ellsworth Christmas Opening Opening of Hunting Season Dinner and Craft Show, second Saturday in Denmark December: Christmas Fest, Second Thursday, Russell. Swedish Supper, Marquette. Remember where your library card is? **Herb Day in Denmark. Once a year, along about the last weekend in April, the tiny town of Denmark hosts an annual Herb Day. There can't be more than 12 or 15 people who live in Denmark, but on Herb Day it is not uncommon for a 1,000 people to converge to buy herbs and bedding plants, hanging baskets, all kinds of geraniums…in all, about 350 varieties and 10,000 starters of herbs and herb related plants. The Denmark Mercantile gets transformed into an herb lover and gardener's paradise. Denmark Hall is filled with other kinds of related and unrelated items, bat houses, bird houses and feeders, herbal homemade soaps and lotions, potpourri supplies, sprouting seeds, ceramic water dispensers for plants, toad houses, t-shirts, gourds etc. There are master gardeners who offer advice and conduct classes. From the Danish kitchen you'll smell the aroma of Danish pastry and cinnamon rolls with urns of hot coffee. Soon they add selections of chicken noodle casseroles, chili, pies and cakes and more. The proceeds go to the Denmark Beautification Project. Next door to the Hall is the Danish Lutheran Church and cemetery. It's usually open for visitors and is a good example of the heritage they brought with them from Denmark. It's an interesting little community with a lot of history. If you miss this, stop at their gift store in the house on the main street west of the Mercantile. If you want to know what else is going on in Denmark, Elsie Driscoll is the person to contact. |
