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Due to recent remodeling and winterization of the theatre, Timber Lake Playhouse, the premier professional summer theatre of northwest Illinois, will extend programming into the Christmas Season for the first time at the playhouse. During the month of October, Timber Lake Terror, The Haunted Experience at Timber Lake will run Saturday nights from 7:00 to 10:00. The Experience includes a full haunted attraction including the Trail of Terror, Fun House, and a Haunted House. The Escape Room will run Friday and Saturday nights in October. Solve...
For the past 65+ years, the Stephenson County Fair Association has called the 57-acre site that was dedicated to be the fairgrounds, its “home”. The Fair Association is a non-profit organization that relies on support from area businesses and volunteers to manage and keep the fair going year after year. The Fair Association is led by a group of dedicated volunteers who want to offer an entertaining and educational experience for families of all ages for many generations to come. The Fair Association is not a government agency and they rec...
The horn-driven power sounds of the Sixties and Seventies will be back at the Masonic Event Center this October 19th. But the show isn’t all about the past, according to one artist. “We see this concert as being about the present as well as the past, and also about a high level of musical quality,” said Clyde Cole. Cole will be one of the lead performers in Cole & The Gang, the headliners in a concert presented by Downtown Freeport Events. They’ll be joined by numerous artists from the region. The core of Cole & The Gang is the four Cole br...
Jo Daviess County Historical Society's Old Blacksmith Shop, in partnership with the Upper Midwest Blacksmith Association (UMBA), will present a special hands-on event and two-day music fest called "The Other Side of the Anvil." On Saturday, Oct. 19 and Sunday, Oct. 20, on the lawn adjacent to the Stillman Mansion (513 Bouthillier St.), six forging stations-complete with forge, anvil, vise and tools-will be fired up and skilled regional blacksmiths will provide hands-on instruction for visitors....
Timber Lake Playhouse, the premier professional summer theatre of northwest Illinois, will host BrewFest on Saturday, September 28 from 12:00 (noon) to 6:00 pm. The fest will include tastings of popular craft beers and wines, food trucks, hayrides, and activities for the whole family and features the popular craft beers of Lena Brewery. Tickets $25 for adults and $10 for 3 – 20 year olds. Included in the ticket price are tasting tickets for wine and craft beer, soda tickets, pumpkin carving, f...
With so many worthwhile nonprofit organizations in the Freeport area trying to raise money, it can be hard to decide which events to support. On any given weekend, multiple nonprofit organizations compete with one another to gain the attention of the public. If only there was a way these groups could coordinate and work together, instead of against each other. Enter “Eats and Beats,” a two-day event being coordinated by over 20 Freeport area nonprofit organizations. The event will feature live music from local and regional bands, as well as...
Rehearsals are in full swing for the Mighty Richland Players Dessert Theater's production of, "The Great White Way." The script was written by Kim McIver, and it ties together 15 musical numbers from Broadway shows from 1940 to the present. The cast and crew are from all over the area, including Mount Carroll, Hanover, Lena, Orangeville and Freeport. Broadway songs include such classics as, "You can't Get a Man with a Gun," from Annie Get Your Gun, and "Don't Cry for me Argentina" from Evita....
It is time again for the Lena Lions 69th Annual Fall Festival, known as "The Cadillac of Small Town Festivals"! The event will be held in downtown Lena on September 6th & 7th. Free entertainment on Friday – 7:00 pm – Sunshine Band is best described as a power trio of Guitar, Electric Bass and Drums. The three members are Tom Bussan, Bill Eaton and Mike Dunbar. The group has been together since 1975 with musical hits from the late 50's, 60's, 70's and 80's – blended with traditional and conte...
Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Miller Rowley will grace Main Street in Galena on Saturday, Aug. 31 to launch the Galena-Jo Daviess County Historical Society's program, Reenactors on Main. Anthony (portrayed by Cathie Elsbree) and Rowley (Casey Fields), the wife of Galena General William Rueben Rowley will meet visitors at Gateway to History, 403 S. Main St. from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Also, during this timeframe, they will they will meet shop owners, employees and talk with visitors in their stores....
Pretzel City Brewfest is being held September 14 featuring over 100 craft beers from local and national breweries for tasting at an outdoor atmosphere in Downtown Freeport. Tickets can be purchased online or find a list of physical locations at greaterfreeport.com/brewfest. Pretzel City Brewfest is a great event for residents and visitors who are 21 and older to socialize, be entertained with games and contests and enjoy food from local vendors. The event is open from 1-5:30 pm. Pre-event genera...
Timber Lake Playhouse is proud to bring to area audiences a truly unforgettable production full of sass, style and sisterhood. Steel Magnolias, is equal parts hilarious and heartwarming. At Truvy’s beauty shop, the motto is: there’s no such thing as natural beauty—the women are all sass and brass. Through clouds of hairspray and over the buzz of blow dryers, six southern spitfires gather each week to chat and support each other through thick and thin. But those bonds are about to be tested when M’Lynn and her daughter Shelby face a life-ch...
This September, the Apple River Fort State Historic Site will host "Goin' Down the Road: Folk Songs of Illinois, 1818-1960," presented by folk musician Bucky Halker! From the beginning of Illinois statehood through the folk revival that swept the nation in the 1950's, the people who made Illinois their home produced historical ballads recounting floods, tornados, murders, and mining disasters. These ballads allowed communities to remember and pass on their history at a time when newspapers and...
The Fight For Suffrage will cover the movement for women to gain the right to vote in a temporary exhibit at the Galena & U.S. Grant Museum at 211 S. Bench Street. The exhibit opens at 5 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 22 at a special preview for members of the Galena-Jo Daviess County Historical Society and the League of Women Voters of Jo Daviess County. A portrayer of Susan B. Anthony, a renowned suffragette, will make an appearance at the opening. Curator and Director of Outreach and Education Shelby...
Collection of Photos from Freeport's Cruise Night on August 10th....
A Collection of photos from the Jo Daviess County Fair...
Once again, acoustic music emanating from the 52nd annual Willow Folk Festival will fill the air in pastoral Willow Valley, located about nine miles southeast of Stockton, Illinois, August 9th and 10th. Should you happen to take a drive out that way, between now and that upcoming tuneful weekend, the only sounds you'll probably hear will be a herd of cows mooing, a farmer's tractor chugging, and maybe a few birds tweeting. But that scene will soon change, when scores of musicians, along with fam...
There are a couple of ways of looking at Highland College's Summerset 46 production of the musical 'Titanic.' On the one hand, it gathered some of the best talent from the region and challenged them with a difficult musical score, while also including an impressive technical side to the production. But on the other, the script itself didn't allow the show to maximize the talent on stage. Let's start with the technical side, which was impressive. Highland used a single set comprised of a raised...
Jester Studios, Tomahawk WI, in conjunction with Amazon Direct Publishing, are pleased to announce the publication of 'Widows Walk: How My World Ended And What Happened After' by Paula Baysinger Morhardt, of Stockton, IL. Paula, who has been writing since she was a small child, has had several poems published in small magazines and e-zines, including a poem published in the anthology Through Sun and Shower by The National Library of Poetry. This is the first book she has had published. 'Widow's...
