Save next weekend to take in the Grand Encampment Cowboy Gathering, Friday, July 13 through Sunday, July 15. Festivities begin at the Grand Encampment Opera House at 6:30 pm with a Gunslingers Shootout followed at 7 p.m. by a melodrama performance. A campfire jam session follows the melodrama at Grandview Park.Festivities begin at 10 a.m. on Saturday with performances going on all day by a variety of artists. The All Star Cowboy Poetry and Music session begins at 7 p.m., ending with a campfire jam session in Grandview Park.
Sunday's activities begin at 7 a.m. on Sunday with a cowboy breakfast in Grandview Park, followed by Cowboy Church at 10 a.m., with Living History Days at Grand Encampment Museum, a 1 pm songwriting workshop with Dave Stamey, and a 2 p.m. opening for an exhibit of five generations of quilts by Yvonne Hollenbeck.
FMI: Go to the web site or call Laurie Wood at (307) 327-5389 or Liz Wood at (307) 329-7734.
