The Big Island Rendezvous and Festival is a historical re-enactment event held the first weekend in October every year at Bancroft Bay Park in Albert Lea Minnesota
Join us at the Big Island Rendezvous - October 1st and 2nd to see history come alive. Experience the fur trade period in the Voyageur encampment, Native American Tipi tours, the Scottish Clann Tartan, New Ulm Battery, and many Early American crafts such as woodworking, blacksmiths, and candle making just to name a few. Purchase period wares, taste authentic cuisine, and experience the sights and sounds of history.
All new attractions for 2011 will include a Woodland Indian encampment, exhibits and buffalo hide tipi from the movie Dances with Wolves with Larry Belitz, eastern frontier artwork by Robert Griffing will be on display, Period fishing exhibit and demonstration by Historic Angling Enterprises; and Jim Hanson, owner/curator of Museum of the Fur Trade in Chadron, Nebraska.
If you are a school interested in the Big Island Rendezvous, visit the Education Days page for more detailed information.
Oct 1st & 2nd 2011
