An invitation to attend the 2010

Frontier Country Fair of the Nauvoo Pageant
7:00pm each evening before the pageant which starts at 8:30pm

All Activities are FREE of charge - No Tickets Required - No Donations Accepted

The Nauvoo Country Fair is a favorite activity for young and young at heart. Guests enjoy 20 different 1840's style games and activities hosted by family cast members dressed in period costumes. In 2007 a station was added with computers where guests can enter information to access genealogical connections to the main characters represented in the pageant such as Joseph, Emma & Hyrum Smith, Brigham Young, Parley P. Pratt & others. More than half of the pageant guests are surprised to see they are related to one or more of the pageant characters. You can try it here

Below is a brief description of some of the activities you will find in the Frontier Country Fair

Stick Ball

This is a great place to play stickball. Like baseball but with a cloth ball & you run the bases "backwards" meaning from home to 3rd to 2nd to 1st and then back home. Because of peolpe coming and going a game of ?move up" where people rotate sometimes works best

Tug-O-War

Simple activity where groups pull against each other

Stilts

Stilts of many sizes entertain guests

Graces

Graces are usually new to our guest. This activity is when two "drum stick" size sticks are pulled apart to launch a wooden hoop. Like a game of Catch back and forth.

Sack Races

A barrel is placed about 30 feet down field. The guest hop in their gunny sacks around the barrel and back across a finish line (rope on the ground)

Handcart Pull

Guests are allowed to experience what it is like to pull an 1840's handcart around the pageant site

Parlor Games

Guests sit at covered picnic tables and play "Fox & Geese" or "Checkers" both games popular in the 1840's Nauvoo Era

Hoops

Rolling metal or wooden hoops guided by a stick was a very popular 1840's activity

Log Sawing

Logs are cut 1840's style

Wood Branding

The cut piece is then branded
with a Nauvoo Temple as a souvenir

Rag Rugs

Strips of cloth are woven into small rugs

Quilting

Quilts are sewn or tied. These are later given to local charities

Dance Band

Round Dancing

Guest learn the "Round Dance" to
ive 1840's era music

Stick Pull & Arm Wrestling

Guests can challenge each other or cast members in this popular 1840's Nauvoo activity

Nauvoo Cousins Tent

Computers are located in a big white tent just West of the seating area in the tree line. Guests use them to print out how they are related to cast characters (ie Joseph Smith, Brigham Young, Eliza R. Snow, Parley P. Pratt, etc.)

Children's Games

A variety of 1840's games are featured such as marbles (actual fired clay marbles!), tops, bean bag toss and other games

Children's Crafts

Our guests cut out a child from a picture and glue it to a stick. They then can color it to make a stick puppet.

Puppet Show

The puppet show is an interactive activity that is enjoyed by guest of all ages. When this short play is finished they are invited to move to the Highland Fling.

Highland Fling & Little Nauvoo

This area has a bagpiper and cast members that teach the audience how to do a simple "Highland Fling" that we do during the pageant performance. This area alternates with the puppet show (they don't go at the same time). The backdrop is a replica of the Nauvoo Temple amid 1840's era homes & buildings