Friday, September 25 through Sunday, September 27, come to Sequim WA and partake in the Dungeness River Festival. The festival runs between 10am and 4pm at the Railroad Bridge Park.
There will be interactive booths and nature activities such as nature and plant walks. You will learn how the railroad bridge was built and see a swift water rescue demonstration.
Of course, there will be music and celebration as well. The Jamestown S’Klallam singers and dancers will lead a traditional drumming circle, and storyteller Elaine Grinnell will spin a tale or two. This is also your chance to get a close look at the work of the Olympic Driftwood Sculptors.
Sequim is a great place for a weekend getaway from Seattle or Olympia. It is a sunny gateway to the Olympic Peninsula.
Sequim Events
Dungeness River, Festival, olympic peninsula, Railroad Bridge Park
May 2009 will witness the 114th Irrigation Festival in Sequim. The oldest festival in the state of Washington celebrates the creation of the irrigation ditches throughout Sequim by D.R. “Crazy” Callan; without the water these ditches brought to the dry prairie land, Sequim would not have been able to thrive as it has.
Each year the Irrigation Festival brings together the Sequim community and reaches out to neighboring communities of the Olympic Peninsula and Puget Sound. This year, due to the closure of the Hood Canal Bridge on May 1, the local community will come out in force for the Grand Parade, the ultra-adorable Children’s Parade and new Family Picnic. It is always interesting to browse the Crafts Fair, and amazing to see the wide array of skilled artists in the Sequim Arts Juried Art Show. The Strong Man Competition, in honor of Sequim High Graduate and international strongman Jesse Marunda, is always fun: past highlights include the 900-pound tire flip and the arm-over-arm truck pull. The Northwest’s connection to logging is celebrated with the Logging Show, where participants may throw an axe, saw a log, climb a pole and pull a tractor.
No Irrigation Festival is complete without the arrival of
Carnival; children and adults alike delight in the crazy rides and the carnival food. The traveling carnival has deep roots across America, and stirs memories in older folks even as it creates them in young children. The Funtastic Carnival prides itself on being one of the safest and cleanest traveling carnivals in the states. In addition, it is involved with the communities it serves, notifying locals of employment opportunities, and most important, financially contributing to the Irrigation Festival itself.
So don’t sit this one out. Come to the 2009 Irrigation Festival and see why it’s been around for 114 years.
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Carnival, Craft Fair, Irrigation Festival, Parade
The Tour de Dung cycling race took place on March 8 in Sequim. The race was delayed due to icy road conditions, but as you can see it still took place!
Sequim Events
cycling, events, outdoor activities, winter
