Schaumburg celebrates fall's arrival, pioneer style
Visitors to Schaumburg's Spring Valley Nature Center stepped back more than 100 years in time Sunday to see and experience how the suburb's earliest settlers lived through fall and prepared for the long winters ahead.
The Schaumburg Park District's annual Autumn Harvest Festival, Spring Valley's largest and most popular event, featured demonstrations of frontier-era farm life, including cider pressing, blacksmithing and grain threshing.
Held at the district's Volkening Heritage Farm and Merkle Cabin, there were also crafts and games for kids, live music on two stages and food including taffy apples and roasted ears of corn.
Cristiano Lopez during picks out a pumpkin Sunday during the annual Autumn Harvest Festival at the Volkening Heritage Farm and Spring Valley Nature Center in Schaumburg.
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Norah Psyhogios, 7, of Des Plaines comes face to face with Belgian draft horse "Bob" on Sunday during the annual Autumn Harvest Festival at the Volkening Heritage Farm and Spring Valley Nature Center in Schaumburg.
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Matthew Sadlocha, 5, of Elk Grove Village wraps apples Sunday during the annual Autumn Harvest Festival at the Volkening Heritage Farm and Spring Valley Nature Center in Schaumburg.
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