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Edge of the Wilderness Calendar of Events
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January 2007
1/01/07	Ruffed Grouse Season Ends
1/01/07	Pheasant Season Ends
1/05/07	Robert Shaner's Chemistry Show, 7p @ Reif Performing Arts Center
1/06/07	Robert Shaner's Chemistry Show, 1p @ Reif Performing Arts Center
1/12/07 - 1/14/07	3rd Annual White Oak Sled Dog Classic, White Oak Fur Post in Deer River.
1/20/07	Late Nite Catechism II - Comedy Club XVI, 7:30p @ Reif Performing Arts Center
1/21/07	Late Nite Catechism II - Comedy Club XVI, 2p @ Reif Performing Arts Center
1/23/07	Dan Franklin Smith, 7:30p @ Reif Performing Arts Center
1/27/07	Monroe Crossing, 7:30p @ Reif Performing Arts Center
February 2007
2/02/07	Groove Lily, 7:30p @ Reif Performing Arts Center
2/03/07	8th Anual Burlbut-Ziemer American Legion Post 475 Ice Fishing Contest, noon - 3p on Lawrence Lake
2/06/07	The Spensers "Theater of Illusion", 7p @ Reif Performing Arts Center
2/10/07	Firefall & Poco, 7p @ Reif Performing Arts Center
2/16/07	Robert Robinson With Twin City Gospel Choir, 7:30p @ Reif Performing Arts Center
2/17/07	6th Annual Bottom of the Ninth Fishing Contest, noon - 3p @ Tioga Beach Landing on Pokegama Lake
2/18/07	Fish & Wildlife Licenses Go On Sale
2/18/07	Driftskippers Snowmobile Club Winter Picnic at the west shelter
2/23/07 - 2/24/07	Winter Dance Party 2007, 7:30p @ Reif Performing Arts Center
2/27/07	Season closes for: Walleye, northern, bass, & muskellunge fishing
March 2007
3/01/07- 3/03/07	Grand Rapids Players present "Annie Get Your Gun", 7:30p @ Reif Performing Arts Center
3/02/07 - 3/04/07	Northern Minnesota Builders Association Builder's Show @ IRA Civic Center
3/03/07	Winter Camp Horse Logging, 10a-2p @ The Forest History Center
3/04/07	Les Ballets Africains, 7:30p @ Reif Performing Arts Center
3/08/07 - 3/10/07	Grand Rapids Players present "Annie Get Your Gun", 7:30p @ Reif Performing Arts Center
3/09/07 - 3/11/07	Grand Rapids Boat Show @ IRA Civic Center
3/10/07	17th Annual Dutch Room "Once in a Lifetime Perch Tournament:, 11a-2p @ Pokegama Lake Tioga Access
3/11/07	Grand Rapids Players present "Annie Get Your Gun", 2p @ Reif Performing Arts Center
3/13/07	Tosca - Bulgarian State Academic Opera, 7:30p @ Reif Performing Arts Center
3/15/07	Ice Houses Must Be Off the Lakes (portables are allowed if removed daily)
3/16/07	A Midnight Cry - Dallas Children's Theater, 7p @ Reif Performing Arts Center
3/16/07 - 3/18/07	Jaycee's Home & Sport Show @ IRA Civic Center
3/22/07	Camelot, 7:30p @ Reif Performing Arts Center
3/23/07	If Give A Mouse A Cookie - Omaha Theater for Young People, 7p @ Reif Performing Arts Center
3/29/07	Quatrocelli, 7:30p @ Davies Hall
3/30/07	Smokescreen, 7p @ Reif Performing Arts Center
April 2007
4/15/06	Trout Fishing Opener In Streams
4/14/07	Itasca Orchestral Society Concert, 7:30p @ The Reif Performing Arts Center
4/21/07	Blandin Male Chorus @ The Reif Performing Arts Center
4/27/07	4th Annual Night on the Town; Coleraine
4/28/07	8th Annual Children's First Expo, 9a-1p @ IRA Civic Center; free breakfast 9-11a, hands-on activities for children
4/28/07	Miro Quartet, 7:30p @ Davies Hall
May 2007
5/02/07 - 5/04/07	History School Days (programs for students), 9p-3:30p @ White Oak Fur Post
5/05/07	America in Concert @ Reif Performing Arts Center; all tickets $39
5/10/07 - 5/13/07	Itasca Children's Theater Spring Production @ Reif Performing Arts Center
5/12/07	Walleye & Northern Fishing Opener
5/12/07 - 5/13/07	Take a Mom Fishing Weekend
5/15/07	Wildlife Class - Enhancing Habitat for Wildlife, 6:30 to 8:00 p.m. - $5.00
5/18/07	American Family Theater - "Wizard of Oz", 7p @ Reif Performing Arts Center
5/19/07	"Stay Tuned" - 5 by Design, 7:30p @ the Reif Performing Arts Center
5/24/07	"Huck Finn" - Children's Theater Company, 7p @ Reif Performing Arts Center
5/26/07	Bass Fishing Opener
June 2007
6/02/07	Wild Edibles, 12-3p @ The Forest History Center
6/02/07	Muskie Fishing Opener
6/08/07 - 6/10/07	32nd Annual Judy Garland Festival
6/09/07	Bigfork Wilderness Celebration: games, contests, parade, beer garden, street dance, booths
6/08/07 - 6/10/07	Take A Kid Fishing Weekend
6/10/07	Minnesota Wildflowers, 1-3p @ the Forest History Center
6/15/07 - 6/17/07	18th Annual Bluegrass Festival - Old Time Music @ Itasca County Fairgrounds (no cost)
6/17/07	Natures Crafts, 1-3p @ Forest History Center
6/20/07	"As Long As I Can Remember....An Evening of Tall Tales", 6:30-8p @ the Forest History Center. Logging history storytellers: great feats of strength, heroic accomplishments, melodramatic tragedies, and a few bold face lies.
6/23/07	Northwoods Birding, 9-11a @ Forest History Center
6/24/07	"Rolling on the River:, 1-4p @ Forest History Center
6/30/07 - 7/01/07	Lumber "Jacks" & Lumber "Jills" Children's Weekend, Sat 10a-5p, Sun 12-5p @ the Forest History Center
July 2007
THURS	Thurs Old Car Cruise Night every Thursday. Members of the local car club cruise the streets and meet for treats at the Dairy Queen. A great informal gathering of classic and vintage cars.
7/04/07	Independence Day Fireworks @ Dusk, Drumbeater Island/Pokegama Lake
7/06/07 - 7/08/07	59th Deer River Wild Rice Festival
7/07/07 - 7/08/07	23rd Annual Woodcraft Festival, Saturday 10a-5p and Sunday 12-5p @ Forest History Center (A juried collection of a dozen crafts people who specialize in traditional wood crafts which are handcrafted without power tools.)
7/12/07 - 7/14/07	Mississippi Melodie Showboat, 8:30p @ outdoor performance at the Showboat Landing
7/15/07	The Art of Decorative Papermaking, 1-3p @ Forest History Center; learn to create decorative paper from raw materials, nature hike, gather flowers to customize your creation, Cost is $3.00
7/18/07	"As Long As I Can Remember...An Evening of Tall Tales", 6:30-8p @ the Forest History Center. Logging history storytellers: great feats of strenth, heroic accomplishments, melodramatic tragedies and a few bald face lies. Cost is $3.00 19-20 Mississippi Melodie Showboat, 8:30p outdoor performance @ the Showboat Landing
7/21/07	Mississippi Melodie Showboat, 3p & 7p indoor performance @ The Reif Performing Arts Center
7/21/07 - 7/22/07	Tall Tales, Songs of the Pineries & Lumberjack Poetry 10a-5p @ Forest History Center. Enjoy a day of storytelling, poetry and music with a lumberjack theme.
7/26/07 - 7/28/07	Mississippi Melodie Showboat, 8:30p outdoor performance @ the Showboat Landing
7/28/07	23rd Annual Northern Cruisers Car Show, 7a-4p @ IRA Civic Center
	Krazy Dayz Sales, Downtown Grand Rapids
7/28/07 - 7/29/07	36th Annual Northern MN IVCC Car Show & Swap Meet, Sat: 7a-6p & Sun: 8a-4p @ Itasca County Fairgrounds
7/29/07	Nature Hike & Wildlife Safari, 1-3p @ Forest History Center, Cost $3.00
August 2007
THURS	Thurs Old Car Cruise Night every Thursday. Members of the local car club cruise the streets and meet for treats at the Dairy Queen. A great informal gathering of classic and vintage cars.
8/03/07	33rd Annual Arts & Crafts Fair, 10a-4p @ Bigfork High School
8/03/07 - 8/05/07	19th Annual White Oak Rendezvous in Deer River, 10a, cost $6.00. Live music, food vendors, traders selling their wares, family camps, period costumes, demonstrations in blackpowder shooting, primitive archers range, an Ojibwa village & replica 1798 Northwest Co Fur Post with living history interpretation.
8/04/07 - 8/05/07	26th Annual Tall Timber Days @ Location tentatively scheduled at the Itasca County Fairgrounds (free) Arts & Crafts vendors: Sat & Sun Food Avenue booths: Sat & Sun Chainsaw Carving demonstrations: Sat & Sun Legion Bingo Tent: Sat & Sun Scheer's Lumberjack Show: Sat & Sun Sky Pilot Sunday Service: Sun
8/04/07 - 8/05/07	7th Annual Greater Grand Rapids Rodeo @ Itasca County Fairgrounds, Adults $10, kids 6-12 $5 Sat: Main Event 6p, Sun: Slack 10a, Main Event 4p
8/05/07	Natures Crafts, 1-3p @ Forest History Center. Cost $3.00
8/12/07	Wildflowers, 1-3p @ Forest History Center. Learn about native Minnesota wildflowers; where they grow, how to identify them, basic drying and preservation techniques. Cost is $3.00
8/15/07 - 8/19/07	115th Itasca County Fair @ Itasca County Fairgrounds
8/17/07	9th Annual Barnyard Olympics, 4:40p @ Itasca County Fairgrounds, in front of the livestock buildings.
8/18/07	Wild Edibles, 12-3p @ Forest History Center, Cost is $3.00
8/22/07	"As Long As I Can Remember...An Evening of Tall Tales", 6:30-8p @ the Forest History Center. Logging history storytellers: great feats of strenth, heroic accomplishments, melodramatic tragedies and a few bald face lies. Cost is $3.00
8/25/07 - 8/26/07	Real Horsepower & a Little Ox Power, Sat 10a-5p, Sun noon-5p @Forest History Center
September 2007
9/08/07	Bigfork Valley Challenge 4.5 mile run & 3 mile walk, 8a @ Kocian's Market in Bigfork
9/01/07	Mourning Dove Season Opens
9/15/07	Ruffed Grouse & Small Game Opener
9/15/07	Archery Deer Hunting Opener
9/22/07 - 9/23/07	Take A Kid Hunting Weekend
9/29/07	Waterfowl Hunting Opener
9/30/07	Lake Trout Season Ends
October 2007
10/17/07 - 10/21/07	Fall Turkey Hunt (first season)
10/13/07 - 01/01/08	Pheasant Season Opens
10/28/06 - 5/15/07	Furbearer Opener for Mink, Muskrat, Beaver & Otter - North
November 2007
11/03/07	Firearm Deer Season Opens
11/24/07	Muzzleloader Deer Hunting Opener
December 2007

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Edge of the Wilderness Calendar of Events See Area Activities

Edge of the Wilderness Calendar of Events
See Area Activities