The east side of Crookston will be busy this Sunday with two popular Annual Events taking place. The 19th Annual Harvest Festival at the Red River Valley Sugarbeet Museum and Pioneer Day at the Polk County Museum will both hold their celebrations this Sunday. Both events are family-friendly, and admission is free.
This year will be the 19th Annual Harvest Festival at the Sugarbeet Museum. Allan Dragseth and Don Andringa stopped by to discuss the upcoming Event. “This is our 20th year in operation at the Sugarbeet Museum. We incorporated in the fall of 2004, and 20 years has gone by real fast,” says Dragseth.
Andringa filled us in on some of the activities for the day. “It’s going to run from 10:30 in the morning until 4:00 in the afternoon is the scheduled time, a food truck is going to be there, the sugar beet harvest is going to be at 11:00, and the tractor pull at 12 noon,” added Andringa.
Andringa says the tractor pull is turning into quite a big deal. “They are going to have a hundred tractors, it’s going to be about a four-to-five-hour show, the tractors are going to be anywhere from a 3000 lb. class to a 10,500 lb. class. The tractors will be anything from Grandpa’s old tractor to modified antiques, so hold on to your hats. It’s quite a roaring deal out there.”
While you are out checking out the Harvest Festival, make sure to stop at the Polk County Museum for Pioneer Day. This annual event will be taking place simultaneously with the Harvest Festival. The Pioneer Day celebration will begin at 11:00 a.m. and Museum Board Member and Treasurer Steve Hannah stopped by to fill us in on the day’s activities at the Polk County Museum Sunday.
“We open at 11:0 in the morning, and we’ve got food, brats, BBQs, and pies which will be going on till it’s gone, and we also have the three different banks, the Four Mile Portage at 1:00 p.m., The Skally Line at 2:15 p.m. and The WoodPicks at 3:30 p.m.,” says Hannah.
Hannah mentioned there are a lot of ongoing activities, and there will be old motors running, old tractors running, and new to the event, the sawmill will be running. That’s not it, though. There is so much more to do on Pioneer Day, explains Hannah. “We also will have the wagon rides from Point Paradise Stables, which take you around the museum grounds, and of course, all the buildings are 25,000 plus square feet of exhibits and are open.”
For the past several years, a free shuttle has been available between the two events. If you would like to leave your car in one location, you can hitch a ride on the T.H.E. Bus for free and then return to where you started. The weather looks like it will be very nice on Sunday, so head over to the east side of town and check out these two wonderful events.
