The crew at Dobby’s Frontier Town is busy planning for Dobby’s Fall Festival, Saturday and Sunday, September 18-19, beginning at 10:00 am. This is their major fundraiser for the year and helps to cover the costs of utilities and repairs. Would you like to be involved?
The east side of the main house will host a vendor fair. If you have crafts, produce, baked goods, jams, art, or anything that would fit with the concept of an early 1900’s town, please consider joining the event. You can contact me, Patricia Jones, 308-762-2363, dutchovenjones@gmail.com; Laura Nussbaum, 308-760-1872, pugsley69301@yahoo.com; or Lori White, 308-760-3574, dusty@bbc.net. We can answer any questions and send you vendor information. There is a fee for vendors. (Unless, of course, you want to donate all your proceeds to Dobby’s…)
Each day will feature musicians performing from the deck on the north side of the house. Sometimes people drop in to play in front of the saloon on the west side of the town. We have a couple who play the pump organ and saws in the church. New talent is welcome, especially if your music tends toward folk or country.
Volunteers are needed all over! Contact Lori or Patricia if you can help with any of our activities. You might have a special skill like operating a treadle sewing machine that would fit right in. You might want to learn more about a few of the buildings so you can tell visitors more about them or answer questions. You might have a hobby that fits with the time period and can be taught to children.
Volunteers are being asked to make candy, popcorn balls, caramel apples, or other items that can be sold in the Kandy Snap. Volunteers will be needed to sell raffle tickets. Help will be needed to serve or take money at the food booth. Volunteers will be helping with set up on Friday, September 17, and with clean up after Fall Festival ends.
Dobby’s Frontier Town is an early 1900’s community started by Dobby Lee as a retirement hobby. Dobby’s Frontier Towners have continued his dream, and the village boasts twenty-seven buildings that would have been found in the town of Dobby’s childhood. Buildings are filled with donated items, many that were well used and loved. This will be the 32nd Fall Festival.
Mark your calendar now for Dobby’s Fall Festival September 18-19. Hitch up your wagon, load up your family and come out to experience a moment in time at Dobby’s Frontier Town. See hands-on what life was like in a small frontier town nestled in the gently rolling grasslands of the Nebraska Sandhills. Dobby’s Frontier Town is located at 320 East 25th Street/Nance Road, Alliance, Nebraska.