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Chautauqua & French-Canadian/Métis Festival

 Andy Oman State Farm Agency

Chateau Motel & Liquors

Christian Brothers Ford

Crookston Inn and Convention Center

Johnson Funeral Service

Paradis Mail Service

Red Lake County Insurance

Red Lake Falls Veterinary Clinic

Red Lake Electric Co-operative

Sanitation Services & Recycling

Thibert Chevrolet-Buick

Thrifty White Pharmacy (Red Lake Falls)

Unity Bank North

University of Minnesota Crookston

Wilcox Plumbing & Heating

Ye Ole Print Shoppe, Inc. Crookston, MN

All AFRAN board members and spouses volunteer an extraordinary amount of time, resources and physical effort to plan and host these activities. We meet monthly usually on the second Tuesday of the month at 7:00 at the Polk County Museum Meeting Room (south entrance).

Days before the festival, each board member begins to list necessities and schedule the hours. When the day comes, all load their vehicles with respective supplies until there’s hardly room for the driver. Deliver. Unload. Lend a hand.

With everything in the proper place, a festival unfolds. Like a pop-up story, each part fits, one accents another. Everyone’s task is unique. All of the senses are engaged, wood smoke curls from the bread oven, music mixes with the river and trees, tourtière in tender crust disappears from plates, colors wave in fabric and flowers, beads of sweat glisten on horses as they quench thirst with Red Lake River. At the close of the weekend, the book slowly closes. Every step of set up goes in reverse until all things are back as they were, leaving a quiet Old Crossing and Treaty Park.

Un très grand merci! Thank you for your contribution to AFRAN.

THANK YOU TO OUR CORPORATE SPONSORS & DONORS

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