Old World demonstrations will include cornmeal grinding, boom making, loom weaving and spinning, apple cider making, blacksmithing, mini-hay baling, dog-on-treadmill and antique machinery.
Returning for a second year will be chainsaw sculptor Jeff Klass of Runaway Saws in Storm Lake.
Kids' activities include a carved-pumpkin contest, horse and pony rides, a corn bin and games.
Handmade arts at the festival will include rug weaving, pottery, quilting, woodworking, crocheted blankets, hats and scarves, and jewelry making demonstration of fusing glass using iridescent dichro glass.
Entertainment for Friday will include:
* Noon to 1 p.m. -Pathway Christian School music
* 1:10 to 2:30 p.m. - Mid-Prairie Bands and Choirs
* 5 to 5:30 p.m. - the Ockenfels Family
* 6 to 7 p.m. the Smid Family
* 7 to 9 p.m. the Bontrager Family
Saturday:
* 10 to 11 a.m.- the Harmony Dulcimer Players
* 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Jeffrey Morgan and Friends
* 12:30 to 3 p.m. Sheltered Reality
Featured this year is the Kalona Depot, built in 1879 when the Burlington, Cedar Rapids and Northern Iowa route came to Kalona. It served as a depot and living quarters for the depot agent until rail service ended in Kalona in 1968.
Local citizens raised the money to save the depot and moved it to the Historic Village in 1979.
Kalona Postmaster Gaye Walton said we will again offer a special souvenir pictorial postmark to commemorate the 130th anniversary of the Kalona Depot, built to accommodate the Burlington, Cedar Rapids & Northern Iowa Route in 1879. There will be two postmarks -- one for each day of the Kalona Fall Festival, Sept. 25 and 26.
A special section on the 2009 Fall Festival will be in next week's edition of The Kalona News - courtesy of area advertisers.
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