The 2022 Freedom Festival will bring history to life this weekend at John Brown Memorial Park in Osawatomie. The two day event will take place today and tomorrow, September 17 & 18th. Freedom Festival will feature reenactments of the Battle of Osawatomie and other reenactments from the pre-Civil War period. Several speakers will present talks about this historically significant time for Osawatomie and the surrounding region, including Mary Buster, the great-great-granddaughter of John Brown’s half-sister Florella Brown Adair, who will discuss family history that cannot be found in history books. Buster also will give tours of the Adair Cabin during the festival.
The Freedom Festival also features an Artisan Fair and Craft show, woodworking and wool spinning, leathercraft , original art, basket weaving, fiber spinners and weavers, cast iron cooking, handmade wooden toys, along with musicians performing frontier and folk music and lots of great food vendors. The Festival opens at 9:00 both mornings.
