Artists and crafts people wanting to display and sell their work need to complete and submit an application by April 1, 2000. Due to the increasing interest in festival participation, the deadline is two weeks earlier this year. The attire of the workers and rustic design of the booths are all part of the attraction to this exciting look at history. Many of the artists are from South Dakota, North Dakota and Minnesota. Festival management accepts only original, self-made work representing items typically found in the time period when Fort Sisseton was a military post.
Applications are also available for food concessions.
Pioneer and ethnic foods are preferred. Those attending last year's festival were entertained by the black powder shoot, cavalry and infantry drills, rendezvous encampment, indian cultural demonstrations, draft horse pull, melodramas, Dakota Dan's Medicine Show, fiddlers' jamboree and historical demonstrations. The number of booth spaces is limited. The application deadline is April 1, 2000. Communications Manager Scott Carbonneau said staff members from the Wildlife Division, Parks and Recreation Division and Custer State Park Division will be represented at each of the shows.