Jane Addams Festival September 21 The Cedarville Area Historical Society tenth annual Jane Addams Festival on Saturday, September 21, will showcase a new and exciting format. The day will start with a 9:30 a.m. 5K run and walk on the Jane Addams Trail. From 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. the scene will switch to the historical society museum grounds for food, live folk music and demonstrations and sales by eight local area artists and craftsmen. The run on the trail two miles west of Cedarville will offer participants an opportunity to win a trophy or medal in fourteen age/gender categories. Immediately after the trail run, the emphasis will be at the museum on top of the Second Street hill where runners will receive their awards and visitors will find the artists and craftsmen, two folk song singers and plenty of food and pastries. Museum admission will be free. The run/walk will start at the Wes Bock Trail Head south of US Rt. 20 and end at Cedarville Road. Pre-registration is $15; registration starting at 8:30 a.m. on race/walk day is $18. All registrants will receive a festival t-shirt. The overall fastest male and female will receive a trophy. First, second and third place finishers in the fourteen groups will receive medals. An early registration form can be obtained by calling Jim Bade at 815-563-4485. Folk song singers Martha Jones of Cedarville and Dan Baldwin of Brodhead, Wi., will perform on the museum grounds. Miss Jones specializes in early British and Scotch songs. Baldwin is known for his versions of American folk songs of the 1960s and 1970s. The participating artists and craftsmen are Nancy Jones, Suzy Beggin. Tami Mulder, Elle Wells, Ellen Bartels, Amanda Spielman, Kathy Wilken and Don and Vickie Franz. These particular participants were selected because they represent a wide range of art and craft talents. Nancy Jones creates corn husk dolls, something she has done since childhood on the farm. She will provide all the materials to create a doll in about half an hour. It’s a great activity for children of all ages. She will be assisted by Diana Reuber. Suzy Beggin is well known, partly because of her impersonations of Jane Addams but mostly because of her work with wool. She will display and sell 100 per cent wool yarn from her historic breeds of sheep raised using 19th century methods on her Stockton farm. She will also sell pattern kits with yarn for historical accessories. Tami Mulder will do spinning and braided and felted wool rug demonstrations. She will have hand spun yarn and hand made soap for sale. Elle Wells was first inspired to make pottery when she and her child watched Captain Kangaroo on television thirty years ago. Years later she took a pottery making class from Linda Auman, Elle cooked at a girl scout camp to earn money for a kiln and eventually taught herself wheel throwing. Ellen Bartels is a painter and printmaker. She earned degrees in art at the University of Texas in El Paso and at the University of Washington. She taught art in Orangeville for twelve years. She will feature her prints and drawings. For more than twenty years Amanda Spielman has made jewelry from a wide assortment of gemstones and found items. She searches for unique items to incorporate in the one-of-a-kind pieces she designs. She learned her craft in classes in Palo Alto, Ca. Her work is on display year-round at the Freeport Art Museum where she will teach a class this fall. Kathy Wilken said she came to wet felting after trying many other art forms. “My work has become more abstract and with painterly qualities. I use the fiber to create abstract works that are sometimes sculptural or two dimensional,” she said. Victoria and Don Franz are the owners of Victoria’s Candle Shop on Etsy. They make eight varieties of beeswax candles by hand. “We have been making them for sixteen years,” Don said. Franz, a Civil War enthusiast and collector, added that sometimes he reads by candle light. They burn with a bright flame and they do not smoke, he said.
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