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Decoration Day + Historic Baseball

Explore the origins and meaning of Memorial Day! Saturday, May 24 • 9 a.m.-4 p.m. All activities included with General Admission Memorial Day began in 1868 as a day called Decoration Day. More than 600,000...

Spring Homeschool Day

The perfect opportunity for families to learn together! Friday, May 30 • 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Discounted admission if you buy ahead • Free for members You and your children will have the opportunity to tour...

Circuit Court Day

Sit on an 1870s jury and render your verdict! Saturday, June 7 • All activities included with General Admission Lawyers, witnesses, judge, and court clerks, re-created by our historic interpreters in period clothing, will present...

Emancipation Day + Historic Baseball

Explore Black history in Iowa June 14 • 9 a.m.-4 p.m. All presentations and activities included with General Admission Although Iowa entered the Union as a free state in 1846, the Emancipation Proclamation issued in...

Exhibit—The Fourth Grade Project

Images and words of children from around the world June 18–August 8 • Cultivation Center Exhibit Hall • Included with General Admission Acclaimed artist Judy Gelles interviewed and photographed more than 300 fourth-graders from a...

Medicine Shows

The cure for anything that ails you! Saturday, June 21 • 1 p.m. and 2 p.m. • Picnic Pavilion Included with General Admission The Walnut Hill Drama Society presents Professor Savage’s Traveling Medicine Show. Actors...

Pioneer Wedding

Here comes the bride ... but she's not dressed in white! Saturday, June 28 11:30 a.m. at the 1850 Pioneer Farm Please allow at least a half-hour for the tractor cart ride from the Visitor...

Independence Day

Celebrate July 4th the old-fashioned way! PLUS Medicine Shows and Historic Baseball Friday, July 4 • 9 a.m.-4 p.m. All activities included with General Admission Celebrate a historic Independence Day in the town of Walnut...

Grain Harvest

Help us bring in this year's harvest! Saturday, July 26 • 9 a.m.-4 p.m. All activities included with General Admission Living History Farms’ original community event! Get your hands dirty and help our historic interpreters...

Medicine Shows

The cure for anything that ails you! Saturday, August 16 • 1 p.m. and 2 p.m. • Picnic Pavilion Included with General Admission The Walnut Hill Drama Society presents Professor Savage’s Traveling Medicine Show. Actors...

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