'Tumbleweed Festival'

Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Connie Jo Discoe/McCook Daily Gazette

Haigler, Nebraska, will celebrate fall and Halloween with its fourth annual "Tumbleweed Festival" Saturday, Oct. 22, on the Haigler Museum grounds at the corner of Highway 34 and Porter Avenue. Tents and tables, hay bales and scarecrows will be out; festival-goers are encouraged to bring their own lawn chairs. Activities start with garage sales throughout the community, and at the Golden Inn Senior Center, from 9 a.m. until noon MT. A barbecue begins at 1 p.m. MT, with hamburgers, hotdogs, homemade pie and ice cream at the Senior Center. LaVoine Smith and the Garage Bunch from Burlington, Colorado, will play throughout the afternoon to accompany treasure hunts, horseshoe pitching, carousel/merry-go-round rides, ticket drawings and the presentation of 2011 "Maypole" awards. The Tumbleweed Spook Parade for "kids" of all ages will march past the Country School House Museum at 3:30 p.m. MT; no motorized vehicles are allowed -- only bicycles, tricycles, wagons, walkers and pull floats can be entered. There will be no admission fee to any event; free-will donations will be accepted to fund the development of the new Haigler Cornerstone Museum, whose mission it is to collect, preserve and display artifacts that reflect the history of Haigler -- the "cornerstone" of Nebraska -- and the surrounding farming and ranching community. (Connie Jo Discoe/McCook Daily Gazette)

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