The Friday night ghost stories have drawn a crowd. Folk singers and local bands are on hand to entertain festival goers. Nebraska's state poet, William Kloefkorn, is an active participant. Historian Robert Manley, who is acquainted with all the skeletons in Nebraska's closet, will be in McCook for the upcoming festival. Awards are given for the tallest tale and to the Storyteller of the Year.
Vendors provide souvenirs, food and beverages in the park.
A Saturday night reception closes down the festival. She dug a hole and she wanted the boy to hold the tree upright while she shoveled the dirt in around its roots and packed it all tightly in. We have more fruit already than we can possibly eat. You will be dead long before this tree comes into bearing. As he recalled it many years later, her answer was slow to come as she measured her words.