Co-sponsored by the Elberon United Methodist Church

Saturday June 21st

9am Kid’s Parade (western theme) with Tractorcade Around the Bohemian Alps to follow
10am Theodore Roosevelt -Big Top
10am Fear Factor for Kids -Community Building
11am Grandma’s Pie Plate –Big Top
11am Kids Concoctions -Community Building
Noon Pie Auction –Big Top
Noon CSI Elberon -Community Building
1pm Keynote Speaker – Gloria Feuerbach
2pm Cowboy Jamboree –Big Top
2pm Scrapbooking -Community Building
3pm Belle Plaine Czech Band –Big Top
3pm Bohemian Soap Box Derby -Main Street
3-5 pm Guitar Hero Competition -Community Building
4-6 pm Gilded Bats Music- Big Top
5pm Dirty Jobs Competition -Big Top
7pm Bohemie Kitchen Band –Big Top
8pm Street Dance -Main Street
8pm Kid’s Movie -outside in park

Sunday June 22nd

7am to Noon Pancake Breakfast –Community Building
9am Judy Mehlert –Big Top
10am Church Service –Big Top
11am Shape Note Singing –Big Top
12am Healthy Meals in a Hurry –Big Top
1pm Keynote Speaker – Rev. Tom Woodin
2pm Keynote Speaker – Rev. Jim Henke
3-5 pm Prairie Creek River Bottom Blues Band –Big Top
3pm Rounders Vintage Baseball at the City Park

Food will be served Saturday all day outside the Community building.
BBQ pork sandwiches, brats and hotdogs chips and pop.
Pies by the slice and funnel cakes w/extra toppings will be a special treat.  The library will also be having a bake sale Saturday.
The General Store will be having a special steak supper Saturday evening.
Buckwheat and regular pancake breakfast will be Sunday morning.
Food will also be available at the park Sunday afternoon.

What is a Chautauqua?  Chautauqua (shuh-taw-kwuh) is a community-based, cultural and social movement that started in the 1870’s and flourished in America until the mid 1920’s.  During this time there existed hundreds of touring “Chautauquas” that presented lectures, dance, music, drama, and other forms of “cultural enrichment.” The movement is named for a lake in upstate New York that was the site of the first Chautauqua, which consisted of Sunday school teachers lecturing outdoors about the moral issues of the day.  Eventually it broadened and organizers brought in great orators, added music, and later theater. It is a popular belief that this type of information exchange was the origin of the current adult education movement.  Performing in tents across the country, Chautauquas were once called “the most American thing in America” by Teddy Roosevelt.

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