Old Wadena Society Rendezvous

Old Wadena Rendezvous and Chautauqua Celebration, Wadena, MN

Traditional Rendezvous Encampment of costumed re-enactors demonstrating how fur traders lived in the 1840s. Members of the Crow Wing Muzzleloaders Club, provide the nucleus of a camp of men and women furtraders, trappers and followers. Clockwork Clown, fire-eating, mim actor, jokes Educator and Wadena County native, Dick Oehlenschlager, an assistant curator at the Minnesota Science Museum, presenting information about the geology and ecology of the Old Wadena Park region. Great acoustic music - folk, bluegrass, jazz, cultural and country music acts both days. Artists and Artisans demonstrations. Food vendors, including Rendezvous frybread, candy, beverages Opportunities for kids to participate in making a birdhouse; play games from the 1800s, and scramble for candy from the Candy Cannon. Many craftsmen including a blacksmith; portrait/scenery painting on slab wood; wood carving; pottery; lace making tea leaf reading