Candlelight Tour and Fort de Chartres Rendezvous Highlight Weekend Events
This weekend features the 16th annual candlelight tour of the Pierre Menard Home Historic Site with dulcimer music and refreshments on the rear porch. Also, a silver anniversary Arts and Crafts Show, Ainad Shrine Circus, Fort de Chartres Rendezvous, Good Old Days at Carbondale, a Teen Benefit Party, and more. The events span Du Quoin, Prairie du Rocher, Carbondale, Steeleville, and surrounding areas with family activities, live music, crafts, parades, and crafts demonstrations.
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Pierre Menard Home
Fort Kaskaskia Road
Illinois 3
Ellis Grove
Chester
Fort de Chartres Historic Site
Prairie du Rocher
Wood designer craftsman Kinser shapes heirloom pieces
Kyle Kinser, a self taught designer craftsman in Makanda, creates original boxes cabinets and fine furniture from indigenously grown wood. He toils from tree to finished piece with hand and machine aided joinery, finishing each item by hand and signing it KK with year. Kinser plans a showroom and accepts commissions while exhibiting June 4 29 at the Associated Artists Gallery Carbondale.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brenda Sprague
Southern Illinoisan
Kyle Kinser
Kinser
Illinois
Williamsburg
James Krenov
College of the Redwoods
Fort Bragg
Calif
Associated Artists Gallery
Faner Hall
Jeri
Southern Illinois University-Carbondale
Kinsers
Abel
Andy
Makanda
James McEvers
First Christian Church of
Paris
Tenn
S. Illinois Ave
Carbondale
Scott AFB hosts free charity horse show and air show
Scott Air Force Base opens its doors for a free charity horse show on June 15 16 co sponsored with the Belleville Rotary Club. Equestrian events include hunter jumper and equitation on Saturday and Western classes on Sunday. Proceeds benefit local charities and the Scott AFB Morale Recreation and Welfare unit. The annual air show with the U S Air Force Thunderbirds is set for June 22 featuring a 3 pm demonstration. Gates open at 9 am with multiple displays.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Missouri Horse Show Association
Ill-Mo Mbra
Scott Air Force Unit of Morale, Recreation and Welfare
U.S. Air Force
Thunderbirds
Air Force
Scott Air Force Base
Belleville
Ainad Shrine Circus Parade Opens in Du Quoin
A circus parade in downtown Du Quoin begins at 11 a.m. Saturday to herald the Ainad Shrine Temple Circus opening. Performances will be at 2 30 p.m. and 7 30 p.m. Saturday and Sunday at the Du Quoin State Fair grandstand.
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Ainad Shrine Temple
du Quoin
du Quoin State Fair
Stage Company offers acting classes in June series
Jackson County Stage Company in Carbondale presents eight June workshops from 7 to 10 p.m. on Mondays and Wednesdays covering yoga for actors, script reading, diction, audition prep, and character development. Non members pay 8 dollars, members free. new members may apply the fee to the 20 dollar annual dues.
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Jackson County Stage Company
The
Stage Company
Carbondale
Charlotte McLeod
Ed Willis
Craig Hinde
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Siarts and Crafts
Southern Illinois Arts and Crafts Guild
Bend Lake College
Southern Illinois
Kentucky
Arknsas
Missouri
Carbondale Park District
Lenus Turley Park
Dixie Jazzmen
Charlie Berger
Carbondale Community High School
Steven C. Wikel
Egyptian Sports Center
Music In Motion
Pepsi
Steeleville American Legion
Jim Beattie
Steeleville Ball Park
Rockoye Gardens
Rockome Gardens
Arcola
Executive Inn
Freddie Fender
Executive Inn Riverfront
Paducah
Farmer’s Market
Farmer's Market
Illinois 13
McDonald’s
Siuc
Summer Playhouse
Lerner and Loewe
Lab Theater
Communications
McLeod Theater
Stephen Kennedy
Wood
Scott Afb
Ainad
Barbara Cordoni-Kupiec
Denice Cocking
Archibald McLeod
Gene Dybvig
Shannon Bump
James Crowner
Cameron Garbutt
Roy Weshinskey
Nick Earll
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