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Harvest Festival at the Littleton Museum

The Museum’s 18th Annual Harvest Festival and Pumpkin Sale is Saturday October 8th from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

In the late 1860s, families gathered together to help with the fall harvest and to share in the celebration of a successful crop! Please join us as we, too, have much to celebrate. We have a great crop of pumpkins, planted by the historic site interpreters which will be for sale during the festival. Our neighbors are bringing their mules for wagon rides.

There is no admission fee to the museum; wagon rides, cider and other refreshments will be available for purchase. A food concessionaire will be selling frankfurters and other tasty treats as well as beverages outside the east entrance to the main museum building.

Join the historic site interpreters and volunteers on the 1860s farm where they will be roasting a pig in the summer kitchen and there will be a straw bale maze out in the field to challenge you. New this year will be activities on the 1890s farm; the interpretive staff and volunteers will be presenting the first ever mock county fair, including judging of heirloom fruits, vegetables, preserves and fabric arts; midway games; and a medicine man show featuring Dr. Charles Tan, Medicine Man.

From 10 am to 12:30 pm listen to the music of Six Foot Joe and the Red Hot Rhinos, horn-driven Rock and Roll. Combining that classic rock beat with revved up horns (Joe features a four piece horn section) and a great lyrical wit, Joe’s concerts are both fun and entertaining.

Afternoon music from 1 pm to 3 pm will be the music of Liz Masterson, a Denver native and award winning singer, who began performing Western music in 1982 and was quickly recognized as a “trail blazer” for the revival of this art form. A founding Board Member of the Western Music Association, Liz Masterson’s roots run deep and true in the “cowboy culture.” Her distinctive singing voice, yodeling, and sense of humor has won her national acclaim as she tours the country as a solo performer and teacher of the traditional art forms of yodeling, swing and western music. Liz was named the 1998 Western Music Female Performer of the Year and also received the Patsy Montana Cowgirl Award in 2000. Liz will be joined by Ron Jones on the fiddle.

The museum is located at 6028 S. Gallup St. Call 303-795-3950 for information.