Kansas State University - Royal Purple Yearbook (Manhattan, KS)

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KEVIN HENDRIX and Al Bowyer of the Wheatland Express bluegrass band, of Junction City, perform at the Flinthills Festival. (Photo by Christopher Assaf) QUILTING KONZA Prairie Guild members Mibrue Heitschmidt and Marilyn Black, both from work on a double Irish chain patterned quilt that will take 600 hours to finish. (Photo by Christopher Assaf)

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the sounds of music and children ' s laughter, more than 35,000 people enjoyed the events at the Flinthills Festival, during the weekend of Sept. 23-25. Conducted at Manhattan City Park, the festival offered a variety of arts and crafts as well as children ' s activities, food, folklife and history The entertainment ranged from storytellers and jugglers to country, folk and rock music. The Flinthills Festival was a partnership of the City of Manhattan, Manhattan Arts Council, Manhattan-Ogden Public Schools and K-State, said Kent Glasscock, of the festival. The for having the festival at all came from the University. According to John Biggs, executive director of the Manhattan Arts Council and steering committee member, one of the festival ' s purposes was to incorporate K-State ' s Kansas Folklife and Manhattan ' s summer Arts and Crafts Fair into one large event. The response to this idea was positive throughout the community, Biggs said prior to the festival. I liked the way it was set up combining the two events, said Mikki McCoy, sophomore in nutritional sciences and pre-medicine. There were a lot more arts and crafts and it was well arranged. We tried to include the University any way we could, Glasscock said. In the future, we will get more University involvement through classes. The fall timing was difficult the first year, but now instuctors can prepare. One class that did participate in the festival was the Recreational Leadership class. As a requirement for the class, students had to help with an event such as the or the University ' s Career Day. Sean Mertz, member of the class and junior in leisure said he chose to work at the obstacle course in the children ' s area because he enjoyed working with kids. Many children, along with their friends and, occasionally, parents, raced through the course, sending straw flying. In addition to the obstacle Continued on page 32 A HANDCARVED figure is being made from a single block of wood at the Festival. (Photo by Christopher Assaf) by MIKE NICHOLS LORELEI PAGE

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Continued from page 30 course, the children ' s area contained playground equipment, a face-painting tent, and the Make It-Take It tent. In this tent, some of the most popular items were magic flowers, made by twisting wires into shapes and dipping them in paint. The little kids are fun. They get so excited, said Jan Miller, junior in and mass and volunteer worker. It was an and lots of fun. Maybe I ' ll do it again next year. There was strong input in the children ' s area and it went real well, Glasscock said. It was a highly successful area. Other attractions of the festival included five tents of non-juried arts and crafts. These contained everything from ceramics and natural stone jewelry to wheat weavings and oil paintings. There were also four tents displaying juried exhibits, including stained glass, wood furniture, watercolors and pottery. I really liked the crafts and all the display items, said Jane Beaty, in animal science and industry. I enjoy the whole atmosphere. The folklife section hand-spun wool quilts, a dug-out canoe, and an old threshing machine. A separate tent also flintknapping, Native American KATHLEEN BROWN, Manhattan, wears a handsewn dress. She said the dress was an authentic design from the midwest. (Photo by Assaf) TWO GIRLS work on crafts in a tent especially designed for the people visiting the festival. (Photo by Christopher Assaf) beadwork, and post rock splitting. Jeff Brown and Ed both of Manhattan, worked on the canoe, made from a hackberry log, during the three days of the festival. The festival was one of many places they had on the canoe. They later moved it to the Goodnow House Museum, where they worked on it until spring. At the festival, Brown and Hoover portrayed French Canadian traders from the mid-1700s. Hoover