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Event Locations and DirectionsLocation Maps and Driving Directions can be found on our Maps Page! |
Sunday EventsPrinceton Lions Club Pancake Breakfast
For more information please contact Jim Argo 815-872-6181 or visit www.princetonlions.org. Flea MarketLocated at the Bureau County Fairgrounds with a $1.00 admission fee. Hours are 8:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. Call 815-875-2606 to reserve a space. Car ShowFor More information about the Homestead Festival Car Show, please follow the link below!
Window DisplaysHOMESTEAD FESTIVAL COMMITTEE WINDOW DISPLAYS are a great opportunity for the area collectors, historians, businesses, organizations or clubs to promote themselves and to display any hidden talents or treasures. The theme for the display contest this year is "Let Freedom Ring". The Steering Committee loves to see all the windows along Princeton's Main Street decorated to welcome the many people who come to Princeton for our wonderful Festival. Business owners who do not decorate their own windows are invited to make their windows available to clubs/organizations and collectors/historians looking for space for their displays. This year's theme promises to be a fun one with a million possibilities. Our goal is to entice customers into our businesses with their own unique display of our theme. Future information will provide businesses with details on how to sign up; deadlines; judging dates and contact information. All winners will be announced on Friday, September 9, 2011 during the Homestead Festival Announcements at 6:00 p.m. at Soldiers and Sailors Park.
Beta Sigma Phi Arts & Crafts Show
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- Bureau County Fairgrounds
- Princeton High School Gym
- Festival 56 Theatre
- St. Louis Gym
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Children's Tractor Pull
Sponsored by Diller-Rod, Inc.
The tractor pull will be set up by Ron Hanson from Prophetstown and run by the students from Dan Foe's Ag group from Princeton High School. This is certainly an event you do not want your child to miss.
This event is for children ages 4 through 12 years of age and is held at Soldiers and Sailors Park.
Registration will be at Noon with the pull starting at 12:30 p.m. Our goal will be to have the event finished by 2:30p.m.
Reverend Owen Bryant Lovejoy Worship Service
Reverend Lovejoy is the great-great-grandson of the original Owen Lovejoy. He is a descendant of Elijah P. Lovejoy (Owen's son) who lived in the home in Princeton that is now the Elks Club. Reverend Owen Bryant Lovejoy and his wife reside in Black Mountain, North Carolina.
Reverend Lovejoy will be giving the message at the Hampshire Colony Church at 10:30 a.m. with a reception immediately following the service.
Jazz Worship Service
Services with Jimmy Valentine will be at the St. Matthew's Lutheran Church on Dover Road at 10:30 a.m. The community is invited to attend.
1st Annual Homestead BBQ Rib Cook Off
Sponsored by Nyman Insurance, Inc & Princeton Park District/BCMC
Attention: Due to the interest in this event, it has been movied to the Central Bank's parking lot at 215 South Main Street.
Contestants must provide all the supplies needed to cook on site, including ribs. Charcoal or propane is allowed and contestants can set up as early on Sunday as they need to cook their ribs. An area will be designated around the downtown festivities for the cook off.
There will be three cash prize winners ~ 1st Place $500; 2nd Place $250; 3rd Place $100.
Judging will be held as close to 3:30 p.m. as possible, which will be directly after the car show and 50/50 winners have been announced.
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Please fill out the entry application and send that along with your $25.00 fee (check or money order, NO cash) to:
Homestead BBQ Rib Cook Off
% Todd Nyman
Box 101
Dover, IL 61323
EVERYONE Welcome ~ Pro’s, area chefs, local yokel; let’s see who has the Black Belt in BBQ in the area!
Music by the Generics 
Sponsored by Rediger Auction Service - Rick Rediger
Enjoy the music of one of Princeton's favorites from 11:00AM - Noon, 12:30PM - 1:30PM and 2:00PM - 3:00PM in Soldiers and Sailors Park.
Additional information about the Generics can be found on our Concerts Page.
Bureau County Pork Producers BBQ
For over 30 years the Bureau County Pork producers have been serving specially seasoned butterfly pork chops and pork burgers under the tent at Soldiers and Sailors Park. Cooked on an open grill by dozens of volunteer members, it is a once a year special taste. Join us and enjoy the flavor thousands of Homestead Festival visitors return to savor year after year.
Savor delicious butterfly pork chop sandwiches and pork dinners at Soldiers and Sailors Park from 10:30 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Prairie Arts Center Exhibit & Play
1:00PM - 4:00 PM
Prairie Arts Center Gallery ~ "Harold Steele/Harvest" handcrafted farm and home tools
4:00PM - Ten Thousand Thunders at the Prairie Arts Center Theater
Come celebrate the 200th Anniversary of Owen Lovejoy's birth at the Prairie Arts Center Theater. This reader's theater performance, written by local author and playwright Trey R. Barker, is based on the 1843 trial of The State of Illinois vs. Owen Lovejoy.
Performances are Sat. Sept 3 at 7 pm, Sun Sept 4 at 3 pm, and during Homestead Weekend Fri, Sat, and Sun Sept 9-11 at 4 pm. Tickets are $10. To reserve tickets, please call the Prairie Arts Council Ticket Line at 815-200-4789. For more information, please visit www.theprairieartscouncil.org.
Any questions please contact Linda Gustafson at 815-872-9181.
Festival 56 Presents "The Guys"
Sponsored by Norberg Memorial Home.
For More information about the Festival 56 "The Guys", please follow the link below!
Owen Lovejoy Homestead Tours
OWEN LOVEJOY HOMESTEAD TOURS are FREE at the Homestead on East Peru Street from 1:00-5:00 p.m. There will also be FREE tours on Saturday.
A Former Station on the Underground Railroad, the Lovejoy Homestead was the home of the Denham and Lovejoy families for nearly 100 years. Reverend Lovejoy was its most famous resident and occupied the house from 1838 until his death in 1864. For additional information visit their website at www.lovejoyhomestead.com.
Petting Zoo
Sponsored by Perry Memorial Hospital
Millers Petting Zoo will bring a wide variety of animals to Soldiers & Sailors Park from Noon until 3:00 p.m. Animals include goats, a pot belly pig, chickens, ducks, alpaca and many others. Individuals will be available to give a little information about each animal. Food is made available for the children to fee the animals. This event is free of charge.
Homestead Festival 50/50 Raffle Drawing
The Homestead Festival Committee will gather at 3:30 p.m. in downtown Princeton at the speakers booth of the car show to announce the winner of the first ever 50/50 Split the Pot Raffle!?
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