Heritage Days
Sat, Oct 09
|Osborne Nature Center
Heritage Days began in 1975 as a way to bring life back to the tiny community of Osborne, Iowa. Tucked in among the rolling wooded hills between Elkader and Strawberry Point, the once thriving town has lost most of its inhabitants to other areas since its heyday in the 1930’s.
Time & Location
Oct 09, 2021, 10:00 AM – Oct 10, 2021, 4:00 PM
Osborne Nature Center , Osborne, IA 52043, USA
About the Event
From its modest beginnings, with only a handful of demonstrations, Heritage Days has grown to become one of Northeast Iowa’s most popular fall festivals. Held on the second weekend of October each year, Heritage Days usually falls during the peak of the fall leaf season. Thousands of visitors to the area stop at Osborne to take a brief journey back in time.
Demonstrations include: basketry, candle making, quilting, spinning, story telling and flint napping.
Contests include: buffalo chip throwing, chili cooking, and pumpkin decorating.
Tasty Foods include: caramel apples, pie, buffalo stew, fry bread, and lefse.