Junction
Junction, IL · Arts & Culture
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Anna Colorfest to bring music, food and circus shows downtown
ANNA, Ill., (KBSI) — The City of Anna is preparing for its annual Colorfest downtown street festival, featuring live music, local vendors, activities and circus performances. The festival is scheduled from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 10, in downtown Anna near Davie Street Plaza and Pavilion. Local...
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Kennady Wins Paducah's 'Dancing With Our Stars'
Kelsey Kennady of Paducah went from being an audience member to the star of the show. Kennady won the top prize in the 19th Annual American Cancer Society Coad Toyota Paducah Dancing With Our Stars, presented by Harrah's Metropolis and Stor-Mor Portable Buildings. The annual fundraising event was held Saturday night at the Paducah Convention Center.
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SEMO District Fair brings fun entertainment to Cape Girardeau
From greasy funnel cakes to hand-dipped corn dogs. The thrill of a carnival ride or the breathtaking views from a Ferris wheel. The SEMO District Fair is set to offer all the fun right here in Cape Girardeau. The SEMO District Fair is coming back to Cape Girardeau for its...
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‘Best Little Fair in the Land’ coming Sept. 25-26
Although the East Perry Community Fair in Altenburg has been called the “Best Little Fair in the Land” for nearly eighty years, it can hardly be termed little anymore. With an attendance estimated at from 25,000 to 30,000 for the two-day event, it has grown from its small beginnings to one of the largest annual events in the area. Despite its size, it continues to pride itself on continuing as a traditional small-town country fair.
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Celebrate 50 years of fun during the Annual Fall Festival
Celebrate 50 years of fall fun with Jackson County Parks + Rec and the 50th Annual Fall Festival of Arts, Crafts and Music. Stroll through Missouri Town Living History Museum where interpreters bring to life what autumn looked like in the mid-1800s. Wander through the Lost Arts area to watch skilled artisans at work. With delicious food, lively music, fun games and family-friendly vendors, it’s a celebration everyone will enjoy.
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More vendors, bigger stage planned for 32nd annual BBQ on the River
PADUCAH — The 32nd annual BBQ on the River festival is set to kick off next Thursday, Sept. 24, and this year’s organizers say it could be the biggest one yet. On Friday, Tyler Parker — BBQ on the River director — and Blaine McDonald — executive director of Paducah Main Street — outlined what this year’s event has in store. McDonald also noted that, just before BBQ on the River begins, Paducah Main Street’s annual Porkstock event will be held Wednesday, Sept. 23, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.
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Carbondale's 5th annual Hemp, Hops & Shrooms Festival to return Saturday
CARBONDALE, Ill. — The city of Carbondale's fifth annual Hemp, Hops & Shrooms Festival will return Saturday. The festival will run from 3-9 p.m. at the Robbie Stokes Memorial Stage. According to the city, the free, all-ages event includes presentations, demonstrations, live music and vendors. Presentations include:. Dr. Aldwin...
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Pierre Menard Home State Historic Site
The Louisiana Plantation Home in Southern Illinois. Four miles north of Chester, Illinois, where a footpath connects to Fort Kaskaskia State Park and Mississippi River bottomlands stretch below a bluff, stands a French Creole mansion erected around 1802-1815 by a Québécois trader who arrived in the Illinois Country at fifteen and remained to become the first lieutenant governor of Illinois. The Pierre Menard Home—a two-and-a-half-story structure with hipped and dormered roof, wide wraparound galerie supported by sturdy square stone pillars, and proportions suggesting ease and established wealth—represents elegant frontier living at the moment when French colonial commerce was transforming into American territorial governance. Built by master carpenter Joseph Champaigne for Pierre Menard during those transformative early years of the 19th century, the house stands as rare surviving example of Louisiana-type plantation architecture constructed north of Louisiana, proof that French colonial building traditions persisted in the Illinois Country even as political authority shifted beneath them.
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Fort Kaskaskia State Historic Site
Near Ellis Grove, Illinois, where the Kaskaskia River meets the Mississippi in a confluence of currents and history, a 200-acre bluff overlooks a landscape that tells a story of grandeur surrendered to nature’s patient theft. Fort Kaskaskia State Historic Site preserves earthen remains—ramparts in rough square formation with bastions at corners—of a small French fort built around 1759 to defend a town that had become, by then, the principal commercial center of the Illinois Country. Yet the river that once made Kaskaskia valuable through commerce eventually made it expendable through erosion: the original town of Old Kaskaskia, thriving on river-rich bottomland, occupied an island that the Mississippi gradually claimed until, by the 1880s-1890s, it was gone—washed away, leaving only memory and earthen traces on a bluff overlooking what had been taken.
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New Madrid Fall Festival set for Sept. 19
NEW MADRID, Mo. (Heartland News) - On Saturday, September 19, downtown New Madrid will host a fall festival from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Organizers say there will be food and craft vendors, a car show, beauty pageant and fishing tournament. Admission to the festival is free. Car show entry...
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Jelly Roll shouts out Paducah, says he'd work at area homeless shelter 'if God tells [him] to'
PADUCAH — Grammy Award-winning musician Jelly Roll gave a shout out to Paducah as a potential place of employment, saying he may end up working at a homeless shelter in the area "if God tells [him] to." Y'all Access Radio's Kelly Sutton interviewed the musician in March and published...
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Live Music, Artisan Vendors Anchor Expanded Riverfront Fall Festival in Cape Girardeau
CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. (Heartland News) - The Riverfront Fall Festival returns to downtown Cape Girardeau with a larger location to accommodate more vendors, live entertainment, and family activities. The festival will be held from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., at the Boardman Hutson Pavilion Lot at the corner of Independence...