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Special Events & Festivals

Arrowhead honor


Photo by Rebecca Sandlin.

Jennifer Scalf (center) holds the framed 2016 Arrowhead Award, presented by Forks of the Wabash Pioneer Festival chair Bonita Price (left) and co-chair Rachelle Nightenhelser on Saturday, Sept. 24, honoring Scalf for her many years of service as a chairman and volunteer at the Forks of the Wabash Pioneer Festival. Scalf become involved with the festival as a child, assisting her mother, who continues to serve on the steering committee. Now, Scalf’s husband and children are also involved in the festival.

Helping out the musicians


Photo by Rebecca Sandlin.

Lisa Woolever, one of the strolling musicians in the Old Towne area at the Forks of the Wabash Pioneer Festival on Saturday, Sept. 24, gets some help on a song from (from left) Ariah Brown, Kennedy Lynem and Promise Fomby, all of Indianapolis.

Photo contest winner


Photo by Rebecca Sandlin.

Denise, Harrell, of Huntington, holds the plaque she received for winning the social environment category of the Pioneer Festival Historical Photo Contest on Saturday, Sept. 24. The Huntington County Historical Society and The Huntington County TAB co-sponsored the contest.

That's entertainment


Photo by Rebecca Sandlin.

Singer Ivory West entertains on the stage at the Forks of the Wabash Pioneer Festival on Saturday afternoon, Sept. 24. Various entertainers performed throughout the two days of the festival.

The president entertains


Photo by Rebecca Sandlin.

Danny Russel (right) as President Abraham Lincoln, regales the children with some tall tales from his boyhoood at the Forks of the Wabash Pioneer Fesitval on Saturday, Sept. 24, at Hier's Park and the Huntington County Fairgrounds.

Tense scene


Photo by Rebecca Sandlin.

Robert Borland (left), playing Lawyer Slippery, acts out a scene with Kaley Koedel, as Angel Innocent, during the Masque and
Gavel melodrama performed at the Forks of the Wabash PIoneer Festival on Saturday, Sept. 24, at Hier's Park and the Huntington County Fairgrounds.

Pioneer music


Photo by Rebecca Sandlin.

Bob Hart plays the hammered dulcimer on the stage at the Huntington County Fairgrounds during the Forks of the Wabash Pioneer Festival on Saturday, Sept. 24.

Pioneer transportation


Photo by Rebecca Sandlin.

Joe Eisenhauer, of Andrews, drives a wagon while Emily Freise rides shotgun at the Forks of the Wabash PIoneer Festival on Saturday, Sept. 24, at Hier's Park and the Huntington County Fairgrounds.

Invite public to pioneer-style worship service

Rev. John Ritchie, pictured in the sanctuary of the First Presbyterian Church, will lead a non-denominational worship service on Sunday, Sept. 25, at the Forks of the Wabash Pioneer Festival.
Photo by Cindy Klepper.

The public is invited to attend the non-denominational, pioneer-style worship service that will be held as part of the Forks of the Wabash Pioneer Festival on Sunday, Sept. 25, at Hier’s Park.

The service will be led by Rev. John Ritchie and the congregation of the First Presbyterian Church, of Huntington. The 50-minute worship service will begin at 9 a.m. at the festival’s “Saloon” and will feature an  old-fashioned sermon by Ritchie and period music and hymns led by Stephanie Shultz. There will be no services at the home church this Sunday.

Vintage tractors, bikes at Pioneer Festival to hit streets on Friday prior to main event

The vintage tractors and bicycles on display at the Forks of the Wabash Pioneer Festival Sept. 24 and 25 will take to the streets during and just prior to the festival.

Fans of the old-time machines are invited to see them in action and, in the case of the tractors, get an up-close look in advance of the festival.

Two antique tractor drives will take place on Friday, Sept. 23. Both start and end at the festival grounds at Hier’s Park and the Huntington County Fairgrounds.