CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. (Heartland News) - The Stars & Stripes Museum will host the Old Fashioned Fall Festival in October.
The festival will include broom-making demonstrations, old-fashioned candy activities, a taffy pull, and living-history presentations.
The even will also include a lecture on the role played by Major General John Freemont played in the Civil War’s western theater and Missouri.
Author Gregory Wolk, of Kirksville, Missouri will deliver “Missouri in 1861: The Rise and Fall of John and Jessie Fremont” at 1:30 p.m.
The event is free and open to the public.
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Wolk is the author of two books about the Civil War in Missouri, Friend and Foe Alike: A Tour Guide of Missouri’s Civil War (2010) and John Fremont’s 100 Days: Clashes and Convictions in Civil War Missouri (2025).
Wolk’s presentation is made possible by Missouri Humanities.
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