2025 Living History Events Schedule
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Check out our 2025 Living History Events schedule!
On October 5 & 6 Fort Atkinson State Historical Park is having their last Living History weekend for 2024. We have exciting things happening. (Nebraska State Park Sticker required)
Learn about the election in 1824!
Butchering a bison and Native drumming on Saturday!
1:30 PM on Sunday 1st Nebraska Volunteers Brass Band Program
Guest speakers include:
- 2:00 PM Saturday, Joslyn speaker Thomas Busciglio-Ritter on Karl Bodmer’s art
- 2:00 PM Sunday, Wade Davis on "Role of Ft. Atkinson in the Fur Trade"
The 1st Nebraska Volunteers Brass Band is a 15-member musical ensemble providing living history, education, and musical entertainment for the citizens of Nebraska and surrounding areas. The group portrays the band of the original 1st Nebraska Volunteer Infantry Regiment of 1861-1862. 1st Nebraska wears Union infantry uniforms and plays authentic musical arrangements taken from actual Civil War band books and played on authentic Civil War period band instruments.