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OCTOBER 6 & 7, 2012 • SATURDAY: 9 AM - 6 PM • SUNDAY: 9 AM - 5 PM Join the fun at the Noble County Fairgrounds, US 6, Kendallville Visit us at facebook.com/applefest or www.kendallvilleapplefestival.org for festival information and updates.

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RAISE-A-RUCKUS SHOW ARENA Saturday - 9:30, 10:45, 12, 1:15, 2:30

Sunday - 10:45, 12, 1:15, 2:30, 3:45

The Raise-A-Ruckus cast will be joined by Miss Indiana Outstanding Teen all weekend.

The Raise-A-Ruckus cast will be joined by Miss Indiana for all performances on Sunday.

CONTEST SCHEDULE Festival Favorite Food - Stop by the information booth and vote for your favorite food at the Apple Festival. Winner announced at 4:00 PM, Sunday. Sat. all day • Sun. 9 AM - 3 PM Frog Flippin’ - Children’s area - Saturday 10 AM • Sunday N/A Apple Baking Contest - Judging Sat. at 10:30 in the Steer Barn. Entries must be received between 9 and 10:30 Saturday. Organized by Sweet Church Community Organization.

Apple Seed Spitting - Children’s area - Saturday 12:30 PM • Sunday 2 PM Baked Goods Auction - Entries from the Apple Baking Contest are auctioned in the steer barn. Sat. 1 PM • Sun. N/A

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For Additional Information Contact: Kendallville Park & Recreation Dept. 211 Iddings Street, P.O. Box 516, Kendallville, IN 46755 Phone 260-347-1064

Visit Main Street and step into a Native American Village. Listen to the Indian Drum Family, make Indian Art and learn about dream catchers or get lost in the straw maze. Visit one of the delicious food booths offering a variety of your favorites. Check out the historic window displays and make sure to visit our merchants in their Native American dress. Free parking available in off-street lots. Ride the free shuttle to/ from the fairgrounds.

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Apple Festival of Kendallville traditions continue BY DENNIS NARTKER

dennisn@kpcnews.net KENDALLVILLE — For 27 years the Apple Festival of Kendallville has been a major tourist event for northeast Indiana, attracting thousands of visitors from all over the country. Each year the festival committee volunteers add something new like food vendors, entertainers and crafters, but generally the setup has been the same, and why mess with a good thing? This year’s budget is approximately $94,000, according to festival coordinator Amanda Taylor. “Any profit goes toward the next festival,” she said. This year’s festival is Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 6 and 7, at the Noble County Fairgrounds and the revamped Main Street Village in Kendallville’s downtown business district. Hours are 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday and 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday.

It’s Apple Festival Time Again! Now that it’s officially fall, it’s time for the 27th Annual Apple Festival of Kendallville! The Apple Festival committee has been working hard to plan and organize the event, and their hard work will pay off when thousands of visitors visit the Noble County Fairgrounds and revamped Main Street Village on Saturday, Oct. 6 and Sunday, Oct. 7. This section, prepared by KPC Media Group employees with the help of Apple Festival committee members, highlights some of the best parts of the festival, including vendors, entertainers, demonstrators and, of course, the delicious food! Read through this section and get ready for a great weekend of fun in Kendallville!

Admission is free with a $3 parking fee at the fairgrounds. Visitors are encouraged to park at East Noble High School and No-Sag on Allen Chapel Road and use the free shuttle bus service. Five buses will operate from the parking lots and between festival venues Saturday and Sunday throughout the day. Vendors, entertainers and festival workers must dress to follow the festival’s pioneer theme. Visitors will see food vendors cooking their offerings in kettles over open flames, and entertainers playing music from the early American period in history. Civil War re-enactors will set up camp near Floral Hall, and vendors in tents in the primitive area will demonstrate 19th century skills such as blacksmithing and sewing leather products. Festivalgoers can wander through the area and barter for items. The new Main Street Village has a See TRADITIONS page 4

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The 2012 Apple Festival of Kendallville committee plans and organizes the major northeast Indiana tourist event. Shown from left are: front row, Barbie Schlegel, Holden Schlegel, Cheri Bherns and festival president Jennifer Cummins; second row, festival coordinator Amanda Taylor, Judy Burlow, Cheryl Mapes and Darlene Gisel; third row, Dr. Tom Jansen, Nichole Hoyt, Lorilee Ward, Todd Campbell and Barb Kelly; fourth row, Howard Mapes, Kevin Schlegel and Craig Munk. Not shown are: Pat and Kathy Young, LouAnne Pillers, Jessica Schoof, Hatem Ali, Carson Roberts, Sheree Lunk, Debbie Derby, Ryan Garrison, Sandra and Howard Hosge, Lynette Leamon and Don Leighty.

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Native American theme with crafters, food vendors and children’s activities allowing visitors to immerse themselves in the Native American culture. There will be a straw maze, an Indian trading blanket, a pumpkin growing contest and 14 new craft vendors. Visitors can try flipping a frog, spitting apple seeds, throwing a tomakawk and a skillet in the fairgrounds contest area. Special hands-on craft-making and games for children are found in the Dekko Children’s Craft Village at the fairgrounds. Cloggers, storytellers, puppeteers, jugglers and musicians will give free performances on three stages at the fairgrounds. The popular Raise-ARuckus cabaret will have five free performances each day in the Raise-ARuckus Arena. Miss Indiana, Miss Indiana Outstanding Teen and the Miss

Indiana Scholarship Pageant choreographer are special cast members this year. Festivalgoers will have more than 70 delicious food choices. New Brunswick stew, apple pies, apple fritters, Filipino egg rolls, fried green beans, apple pizza, potato soup, buffalo burgers, smoked turkey legs, chicken and noodles, beef and noodles, apple dumplings, ham and beans, hot spiced cider, appleburgers, carmel apples and pumpkin rolls are among the many food items. Visitors can purchase handmade items for gifts from more than 100 crafters at both venues. There will be 34 skilled tradesmen demonstrating their unique abilities in the fairgrounds Log Cabin and at open-air booths. Antiquers will enjoy browsing the 30 antique displays in the Merchants Building. The festival goes on rain or shine.

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Main Street Village to have American Indian theme BY MATT GETTS mattg@kpcnews.net

KENDALLVILLE — Main Street Village will still have that historic feel to it, but with an added emphasis on one aspect of the area’s history. Main Street Village is held annually in Kendallville’s Historic Downtown area during the Apple Festival of Kendallville. Main Street Village has traditionally featured period food, craft booths, entertainment and demonstrators. Many of those traditional favorites will be back, but this year organizers have created a unique theme that is still historically accurate to the area. According to committee member Lynette Leamon, Kendallville’s Main Street was once a popular buffalo and American Indian trail. “We thought, ‘Let’s bring back our history,’� Leamon said. “We’ve added the new American Indian theme of our heritage.� This year’s American Indian theme will include activities for children such as making dream catchers, weaving, braided

necklaces and pumpkin and Indian war paint face painting. There will also be an American Indian trading blanket where youngsters can trade trinkets, just like Native Americans bartered many years ago. A special attraction this year will be the Medicine Woman Singers, a group of drummers and singers who will entertain from noon to 3 p.m. on Saturday and from noon to 2 p.m. on Sunday. Based in Huntington County, the Medicine Woman Singers are a group of Miami Indian drummers, singers and dancers who share their heritage. The credit for bringing the group to Main Street Village this year goes to Kendallville’s Don Swank, who attends many Native American gatherings. The Medicine Woman Singers often attend these gatherings. “We got acquainted very many years ago,� Swank said. While the American Indian theme will be most the obvious difference at this year’s Main Street Village, it isn’t the only change.

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Dr. Barth’s Old-Fashioned Medicine Show, “The Biggest Little Show on Earth,� will be returning once again to the Apple Festival of Kendallville’s Main Street Village.

“We have new crafters and vendors,� Leamon said. New craft vendors will offer homemade dips, tapestries and wall hangings, she said. Popular returnees to Main Street Village this year will include Dr. Barth’s Old Fashioned Medicine Show and singer Chris Vallilo.

Food vendors will tempt attendees’ taste buds with offerings that will include chili, pulled pork, ribs, beef brisket, sloppy joes, potato curls, pork loin sandwiches, apple brats, apple spirals, sugar donut balls, maple creams, chocolate suckers, hot apple fritters, Indian fry bread, Indian pumpkin fry bread, pork cracklins, elephant ears, pork rinds and ice cream.

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Festival crafts are lovingly made BY BOB BRALEY

bobb@kpcnews.net KENDALLVILLE — The crafts available at the 2012 Apple Festival of Kendallville come in a wide variety, but all of them stem from a passion for making them on the part of their crafters. Among the dozens of crafters, here are a few examples: Jim Gibbons of Fort Wayne makes and sells several kitchen-related items from a kitchen product usually associated with countertops. “I take scrap pieces of Corian, a countertop material, and make cutting boards, trivets and spoon rests,” said Gibbons, 79. “I’ve been dealing it for 10 years.” Corian is still made, but is fading in popularity compared to other surfaces such as granite, Gibbons said. Scrap pieces let him bring out the colors in new ways. He’s especially hoping to sell a lot of spoon rests. “Cutting boards always do well,” he said. Gibbons has been a fixture at the

festival for about 10 years. He started at the Main Street Village before working his way over into the fairgrounds area, where he’s located today. This might be Gibbons’ last Apple Festival, depending in part on his business there. “Next year I’ll be 80,” he said. He’s decided to cut back, and will make a decision which of the nine festivals he takes part in he’ll stay with after the season is over. Connie Burns of Fort Wayne is definitely focusing on the Apple Festival. “We decided this year that the Kendallville Apple Festival will be our only show,” she said. Burns also repurposes one product into another. In her case, its used wool clothing, which she converts into mittens, scarves and hats. “I purchase from Salvation Army thrift stores apparel items that are made of wool,” Burns said. She shrinks the items, felts them, then makes the new items from the wool. It benefits the Salvation Army stores PHOTO CONTRIBUTED

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Jim Gibbons of Fort Wayne displays some of the types of items made from Corian he sells at the Apple Festival of Kendallville.

because they usually have a tough time selling woolen things, Burns said. Since many wool clothes are either moth-eaten or shrunken, her use is one that benefits everyone. This will be her third Apple Festival. The last two years, Burns did a lot of smaller shows as well. Then came the 2011 Apple Festival. “We sold out of product within a few hours,” she said. That’s when she decided to make the Apple Festival her only show. “We have developed a following,” Burns said. “It’s been kind of fun.” Bill Hollinger of Monroe found fun in a craft that started with a challenge from his wife. The Hollingers attended the 2004 Johnny Appleseed Festival in Fort Wayne, and Mrs. Hollinger bought a Shaker box. “I told her I could make one cheaper,” he said. She challenged him to do just that. Along the way, Bill Hollinger found a new hobby. “I enjoy doing woodworking and learning about different kinds of

woods… working with some of them,” he said. Hollinger makes Shaker boxes and baskets. Of that 2004 vendor, he said, “I found out his price was pretty good.” Hollinger also makes other items, such as cutting boards, cheese boards, boxes and fancy clipboards. Jeff Moore of Elkhart specializes in his hobby. “Since 1987, I have handcrafted duck decoys,” he said. Moore’s decoys are decorative, nof functional. He turns out about 30-35 a year. The bodies are usually made of white cedar, and sometimes of basswood; the heads are made from basswood or white pine, he said. Moore handpaints the detail on for the feathers. He does about seven or eight shows a year, and said the Apple Festival is an extremely well-organized and wellattended show. He also brings a friend’s handcrafted decorative fish decoys to the festival each year.

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Special guests join Raise-A-Ruckus cast BY DENNIS NARTKER dennisn@kpcnews.net KENDALLVILLE — Miss Indiana MerrieBeth Cox, Miss Indiana’s Outstanding Teen Brooke Campbell and East Noble alumnus Nick Smith will be special guests for Raise-A-Ruckus, the popular cabaret show now in its 24th year at the Apple Festival of Kendallville, Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 6 and 7. Saturday show times in the Raise-ARuckus Show Arena at the Noble County Fairgrounds are: 9:30 a.m., 10:45 a.m., noon , 1:15 p.m. and 2:30 p.m. Sunday performance times are: 10:45 a.m., noon, 1:15 p.m., 2:30 p.m. and 3:45 p.m. Admission is free. Attendees can get tickets at the ticket booth in front of the arena. Directors Craig Munk and Chris Mettert, and assistant director Karen Munk have designed a 50-minute, footstomping musical revue. The original production, with a cast of 24 singing and dancing East Noble students, is a joint project created and produced by East Noble Theatre and the East Noble vocal music department. “When I created the show 25 years ago, I never realized it would become so popular with the students and with an audience from all over the U.S. We are always amazed to find out where our audience members call home,” said Munk. Over the past 23 years more than 130,000 people have seen the show

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Miss Indiana MerrieBeth Cox, left, with Miss Indiana Outstanding Teen Brooke Campbell

designed with the flavor of the Apple Festival of Kendallville in mind, added Munk. East Noble stagecraft classes, under Munk’s direction, transform the Beef and Dairy Arena building into a theater with exterior large quilt blocks and decorative landscaping. In 1992, Miss Indiana Shelli Yoder joined the cast, and ever since Miss Indiana has returned to perform in the show. Cox will appear in all five

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No shortage of delicious food available at festival FROM STAFF REPORTS

Thousands of people will enjoy delicious food prepared by hundreds of volunteers and others at this year’s Apple Festival of Kendallville. It’s one of the state’s most favored traditions: Dozens of food booths cooking up hot and delicious meals in authentic pioneer style. Tradition and familiarity are two hallmarks of the festival and it holds true to the food offerings, which rarely vary much from year to year, noted Kathy Young, who directs the food sales at the festival. All of the favorites will be back, Young said, which include apple fritters, pork burgers, haystack potatoes and cheese, chicken and noodles, regular and sweet baked potatoes with a variety of toppings. Those are in addition to onion rings, beef and noodles, hot chicken sandwiches, appleburgers, roast hog sandwiches, buffalo burgers, fish sandwiches, smoked turkey legs, and homemade apple dumplings. And that’s just for starters. There will be 37 food stands offering

different foods at every booth, including two new vendors this year, Young noted. Grace Christian Church will offer fried green beans and fried dill pickles with a tasty dipping sauce. Also, Andy Miller will have fried cheese sticks and cheddar bites. Many local nonprofits use their food booths at the festival to raise funds for the coming year. Boy Scout Troop 103 will be adding chocolate dipped cheese cake on a stick to its menu, and Destiny Family of Faith will be adding “kringles,” which are apple and cherry turnovers, along with their mini doughnuts which were new last year and quickly became a favorite of festivalgoers, according to Young. Festival attendees are invited to show up early for breakfast and enjoy pancakes, biscuits and gravy, and egg sandwiches. Fall in Indiana means homemade soups and the Apple Festival of Kendallville comes through. Enjoy all the delicious soups, which include ham and bean, vegetable, white chili, potato, southwest chicken, chili and french onion.

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Entertainers abound at Apple Festival Thurston Osgood, host of the interview program “Meet the Patriots,” KENDALLVILLE — There’s brings you face to face with the people something for everyone in the family in who made the country what it is today the way of entertainment at this year’s — and gives you a chance to get even Apple Festival of Kendallville. for it, a press release said. Among the performers will be Ben Franklin flies his kite on stage, Suzanne and Jim, who look back into the George Washington sports his famous roots of Americana music and lore. The wooden smile and Betsy Ross puts the husband and wife team of Jim Hale and first flag together before the audience’s Suzanne Jaroszynski blend their voices eyes. and instruments in songs of an earlier All three acts will perform at the time. festival both days. So will the The stories told by these old songs, Applesauce Quartet, Reader the Magnifiand the stories behind the songs, not cent and George Schricker & Wild Rose only relate tales of a bygone era, but Moon. open a window into the origins of our Roaming the grounds both days will modern culture. be Johnny Appleseed. The duo’s performances are designed Saturday-only acts will include the from their research into archived collec- Mills Family, the Apple Jack Kloggers, tions of historic music and are presented the Wes Linenkugal Quartet and Randy in an informative yet engaging manner Erwin. Sunday-only acts will feature PHOTO CONTRIBUTED with just the right touch of Jim’s Troy Roark, Frailey Family and the Suzanne Jaroszynski, left, and Jim Hale make up Suzanne and Jim, who are back homespun humor. Inclognito Cloggers. with their American roots music at the 2012 Apple Festival of Kendallville. Suzanne and Jim have performed in more than 35 states and Canada. They have released three recordings: Keep Smilin’, SongChasers and A Victorian Christmas. For those wanting to hear a string band, there are the Tie Hackers, who come from old-time music jams to venues as diverse as a symphony orchestra or “busking” around Elkhart County. With influences from Grandpa Jones and Johnny Cash to the Dirt Band and the Ozark Mountain Daredevils, the Tie Hackers blend old-time string band sounds to standards like “Angeline the Baker” or Southern rock tunes like “Standin’ On a Rock,” all done with an old-time roots flavor. A returning favorite for the children is the Hasty Pudding Puppets, this year presenting the show, “By George and Everybody Else.” Puppeteers using both hands will PHOTOT CONTRIBUTED PHOTO CONTRIUBTED present a left-hand salute to American history that would give Martha One of the big draws for kids at the The Tie Hackers will share their old-time music jams at the 2012 Apple Festival of Washington a headache, according to a Apple Festival again this year will be Kendallville. Band members are, from left, Michael Schwab of Elkhart, Valerie the Hasty Pudding Puppets. Schafer of Plymouth, Robert Schafer of Plymouth and Stephen Greer of Goshen. press release. BY BOB BRALEY

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Demonstrators show their passion at festival BY MATT GETTS

mattg@kpcnews.net When it comes right down to it, they aren’t just demonstrating how things were done in the 1800s, most are trying to instill their passion to spectators at the Apple Festival of Kendallville. Each year, amid the tasty treats and creative crafts, the Log Cabin building at the Noble County Fairgrounds houses demonstrators. For many, the auditory art of describing what they do goes hand-inhand with physically showing people 19th century tradecraft. “They’re telling how they learned their craft as children,” said Sheree Lunk, one of the festival’s organizers. “They’re trying to spark interest in young people.” Of course, there were no big-box stores in the 1800s. With travel being limited, each community attracted people with certain skills, such as shoe-making, black smithing and pottery. This year’s Log Cabin demonstrators will see a pair of new entries, each

showing a skill many of our forefathers coveted. Ernie Marvin of Fort Wayne will be showing how mocassins, mittens and hats could be hand-sewn from leather. Tom and Cindy Mettler of Columbia City will show off their oak carving skills. An old favorite who has been absent from the last few Apple Festivals, Don Capellani, will be coming back this year showing off his hand-carved Santas. “He’s very good at talking while he’s working,” Lunk said. “He’s just a really interesting guy to talk to.” Capellani may be a good talker, but he’s at a bit of a loss to explain how a person who can’t draw worth a lick can create a sculpture from a piece of wood. “You just have to look at the thing and see it before you carve it,” Capellani said. “I have no artistic talents. I can’t draw.” But he will be walking in the woods and… “Something just jumps right out at you,” he said.

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Primitives area to showcase wares, talents BY BOB BUTTGEN

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KENDALLVILLE — Pioneer life was pretty primitive back in the 19th century, but that doesn’t mean those early Hoosiers were lacking in talent or ingenuity. At this year’s Apple Festival of Kendallville, more than 20 demonstrators will be showing their wares and talents in the primitives area of the festival grounds. The primitive area will again be on the west side of the Noble County Fairgrounds near the first aid station and the Open Prairie Stage, according to Dr. Tom Jansen, the Kendallville chiropractor who organizes the popular area each year at the festival. “The primitive area has 21 vendors this year along with several campers,” Jansen said. “We have all of our regular

vendors back this year.” Among the popular returners is the Majencia Creek Honey Farm who will have a large assortment of honey and honey products. Eugene Burkey is returning this year with his handmade knives, powderhorns and leather pouches, Jansen said. “He does original scrimshaw work on his horns and knives.” A pair of always-popular blacksmiths, George and Josh Clark, will be back with a variety of handmade items that can be used on today’s barbecue grills and othere uses around the modern home. They will also have a variety of cast iron skillets for sale, and will be demonstrating their craft as well as answering questions. Jansen said the festival’s lineup includes vendors who make knives, axes, leather bags and accessories.

Leather clothing, furs and hides, beads, blankets, craft supplies, jewelry, kids toys and walking sticks. Some hands-on fun on Saturday and Sunday will be a tomahawk throw on Saturday and Sunday. Also on both days of the festival, women can take part in a skillet toss. All participants will need to be in primitive dress, according to festival rules.

Many of the campers in the primitives area will be cooking a variety of foods over the open fire. Stews, roasts, vegetables, deserts, breakfast, lunch and supper can be found. Many of those camping out under pioneer conditions invite festivalgoers to stop in and ask questions and learn a little Indiana history while they are in the area.

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