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2024 Rules
Service animals only
No smoking on the grounds
Admission
Adults: $8
Children (5-12): $3
Children (under 4): Free
Hours
Friday, September 27th:
9:00 am – 9:00 pm
Saturday, September 28th:
9:00 am – 5:00 pm
Welcome to the 2024 Fall Festival Website
This year’s Fall Festival will last from 9 am to 9 pm on September 27th and 9 am to 5 pm on the 28th. This two-day event will provide entertainment for all ages! The cost of admission will be $8 for adults, kids 5-12 $3, and those 4 years of age and under get in for FREE! Come join us on September 27th and 28th for a fun and educational event! Entrances will be located on the corner of 9th, and D avenue, and the main visitors center, handicapped parking will be available in front of the visitors center and along D Avenue.
If you can’t make it to the Fall Festival but would like to listen to our entertainment tune into 95.5 FM and you will hear everything live!
Volunteer Opportunities
Fall Festival 2024! To make the Fall Festival complete, we need YOUR help. Over the course of the Fall Festival, volunteers are needed to watch buildings, help at the entry gates, and much more. If you are interested in helping please click on the “Volunteer Sign-up” button below. Don’t forget to invite a friend!
| Friday, September 27th | New this year – Entertainment Tent will be located on the east end of the grounds |
|---|---|
| 11:00 am | Hillcrest Music |
| 11:45 am | Pathway School Music |
| 12:45 pm | Mid-Prairie Band |
| 1:45 pm | Mid-Prairie Choir |
| 2:30 pm | Donor Network Presentation |
| 3:00 pm | MP Home School Program Strings Performance |
| 5:00 pm | Justin Horesowsky |
| 7:00 pm | Old Man Band – Good time music |
| Saturday, September 28th | New this year – Entertainment tent will be located on the east end of the grounds |
| 11:00 am | Heartstrings |
| 12:00 | Pandelirium – Steel Drum Band |
| 1:00 pm | Cornerstone Praise Group |
| 2:00 pm | Michelle’s Musical Keys – Piano Students |
| 3:00 pm | Donor Network Presentation |
| 3:20 | Community Awards |
Entertainment Throughout the Grounds
| Friday, September 27th | ||
|---|---|---|
| Throughout the day – West end of the grounds & pole building | Live Demonstrations including a printing press, bee’s and the honey making process, Make and Takes, Donor Network, Master Gardeners Group, Chuckwagon and cowboy poet, rope making, corn shelling, how a peg barn would have been built in the 1800’s using the same tools and techniques, corn meal grinding, old engines and their uses, chair caning,pony rides, corn bin, face painting, cotton candy, shaved ice, down on the farm agriculture tent with animals, and much more. | West End & pole building |
| 9:00 am – 9:00 pm | Wine Tasting – Old Man’s Creek Winery, and Eagles Landing Winery | Visitors Center |
| 11:00 am – 3:00 pm | Janet Long is celebrating a lifetime of dance, come remise with her and see all of the dance displays.
Local Authors – Book Signing Jan Hochstetler – Always more to learn – Joy, Faith, & Resilience as a Career Educator Don Showalter – Cornfields to Gold Medals – Coaching Thomas Nye – Amish fiction stories Debra Persons – Life in the Mid-West – A Homespun Collection of Recipes & Ramblings | Visitors Center |
| Saturday, September 28th | ||
| 9:00 am – 5:00 pm | Wine Tasting – Old Man’s Creek Winery, and Eagles Landing Winery | Visitors Center |
| 11:00 am – 3:00 pm | Janet Long is celebrating a lifetime of dance, come remise with her and see all of the dance displays.
Local Authors – Book Signing Thomas Nye – Amish fiction stories Steve Reif – Selling Thread in Unique Cabinets – His private spool cabinet collection including sewing boxes John Bain – Christie’s Journey – The Beat Goes On Beth Cody – Iowa Gardeners of the Past | Visitors Center |
| Throughout the day | Live Demonstrations including a printing press, bee’s and the honey making process, make and takes, Paw’s and More (with animals), Donor Network, Master Gardeners Group, Chuckwagon and cowboy poet, rope making, corn shelling, how a peg barn would have been built in the 1800’s using the same tools and techniques, corn meal grinding, old engines and their uses, chair caning, pony rides, corn bin, face painting, cotton candy, shaved ice, down on the farm agriculture tent with animals, and much more. | West End & Pole building |
| Friday & Saturday Throughout the day on the east lot | Barrel Train Rides | East End Lot |
| Friday & Saturday Starting at 1 p.m. | Carmen Slater Quilt Lecture | English Quilt Gallery – Visitors Center |
Vendors
2024 Fall Festival Vendors Needed
If you would like to apply to become a vendor at the 2024 Fall Festival in Kalona, IA, please click the button below! Fill out your application and submit it to the Kalona Historical Village as soon as possible.
Event Registration
