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Continued from Page 11People can enjoy the past in today’s
comfort when they attend the Homer
Historical Society’s Annual Fall
Festival, which takes place Saturday,
Sept. 28, from 11 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
The event will be held at Homer’s
Blair family farmhouse, at 26645 E.
M-60, which was given to the Homer
Historical Society in 1975 by Maude
Blair, who grew up and lived there.
The pioneer family home was
built by her parents, Albert and Ella
Blair, in the late 1800s and has been
brought to life in recent years and
used for events like the festival.
“Tour the house, and you will see
how people lived without modern
technology,” a press release stated.
“Perhaps take a wagon ride through
the farm’s woods or wonder at the
historic displays in the former Albion
Town Hall.”Homer Historical Society Fall Festival set for this weekend
The Town Hall was built in 1890
and moved to the Blair Farm from its
former site at the corner of M-99 and
F Drive South in 2006 after it was
donated to the Historical Society the
previous year.
The Town Hall is now home to
an ever-expanding exhibit featuring
dozens of photographs of the area’s
unique barns and their interesting
stories.John Hawkins, who photographed
them and interviewed their owners,
has also spent many hours devel-
oping the exhibit and creating the
wooden frames for the major photo-
graphs of each barn.
“Preserving the history of area
barns is an important focus of our
organization’s work,” said Homer
Historical Society President Dee
Camp.
Other festival highlights include
old-fashioned campfire cooking
demonstrations and antique farm
equipment.
Visitors can wander outside the
equipment barn and meet the people
who have brought their antique
engines and farm machinery for dis-
play.
Other displays include a working
saw mill, corn cakes made outside on
a cookstove, the Grover whistle-stop
railroad station, and crafters who will
have tables outside with a variety of
personally-made items for sale.
Dulcimer music will be playing,
and the festival menu will include
bratwurst, harvest soup, baked beans,
hot dogs, pulled pork, pies and more.
Proceeds and donations from the
festival help support the ongoing res-
toration and upkeep of the farm, the
development of new displays, his-
torical preservation, restoration work
and museum maintenance.
More information is available at
http://www.homerhistoricalsociety.org.
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