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Sharon, WI 13th Annual Model A Day

Join us in historic Sharon, Wisconsin on Sunday June 7, 2009 from 9:00 am to 2:00 pm for the 13th Annual Model A Day.

Free Admission!

  • Pig Roast with all the Trimmings
  • Old Fashioned Ice Cream Social
  • Historical Shanty Town & specialty foods
  • Gangsters and Time Era Skits
  • 20’s/30’s Fashion Show
  • Roaring Twenties Dixieland Band
  • Dance Performances & Magician Acts
  • The Singing Savino Sisters
  • 30’s Ragtime Strolling Musicians
  • Over 350 Model A Cars on Display
  • Running Board Lunches
  • Free Swap Meet & Vendors
  • Understanding the Great Depression: An Educational Event

For more information, call: 262-736-6246 or contact us.

Sponsored by: Sharon Main Street Assoc. & the Rockford Model A’s

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Understanding the Great Depression: An Educational Event

great depressionIn conjunction with the Sharon, WI 13th annual “Model A Days” celebration…

Date: Sunday, June 7, 2009
Staged Events: 9:00 am
Lecture: 11:00 am at the United Methodist Church, 225 Baldwin St., Sharon, WI.

Speaker: Dr. David E. Kyvig, Distinguished Research Professor, Northern Illinois University & author of Daily Life in the United States, 1920–1940: How Americans Lived Through the “Roaring Twenties” and the Great Depression.

Refreshments will be served from a recreated “Soup Kitchen”, while interactive displays will depict life during the depression. Be sure to stop and say “hello” to President Roosevelt.

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