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Oregon Trail Days Celebrates Success By Karla Nagy, associate editor
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n July 19-20, sharpshooters, whip-crackers, American Indians, mountain men, voyageurs and other pioneer characters will inhabit Lowden State Park in Oregon, Ill., for the fifth – and final – Oregon Trail Days Festival. “Our primary goal was to raise money for restoration of the Black Hawk Statue, and we’ve done that,” says Amy Trimble, one of the founding committee members. “It’s such a unique festival, and it’s the fifth year, and we achieved our goal, so we decided to go out with a bang.” The event began as part of a grassroots campaign to raise funds for the restoration of Lorado Taft’s beloved 48-foot-tall statue The Eternal Indian – known locally as the Black Hawk Statue. Continued on p. 20
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