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 ~Historic Downtown Burlington Wisconsin ~
discover family events and family fun

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Thursday 3 pm through Saturday afternoon September 25-26-27, 2008

Apple Harvest Days

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~Scarecrow Contest & Parade:

Sat. Sept. 27  10 am

~Specialty Shopping: all days
~ 5 Museums:  Tours*
 ~old fashion games
 ~Apple treats       ~Live scarecrow on Saturday
                                                                                                                   ~ 
       Farmers Market  on Thur 3-7

SATURDAY's fun,  click here: What's Where

Sponsors include Allison Wonderland, Burlington Flowers & Interiors, Burlington Footwear, Burlington Health foods, Burlington Library, Delights, Exclusively Yours Floral, Fox River State Bank, Grater Tater, Happy Cayuse, Ide Fine Jewelry, Logic Puzzle Museum, Midwest Widlife Gallery, Schuette Daniels Furniture, Shy Violet, Spinning Top & Yo-Yo Museum, Teacher Place, Curiosities, Zumpanos

and Scarecrow Contest

GREAT PRIZES!

--$40 Family Bowling Pkg.: Bowl & enjoy pizza & soda at Towne & Country Lanes! Includes shoe rental

--$10 Delights certificate!

--$25 Fun Zone certificate!

--Cowgirls shirt from Burlington Footwear!

Read all about the event**

                                                                                                                       

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Sat. Sept. 27, 2008  pm
Spinning Top & Yo-Yo Museum

 tour/program, 35 hands-on tops & games, videos, exhibit, I Spy Hunt,
& a live presentation by the Tops Expert.2.5 hour fun program: $11/person
533 Milwaukee Ave, www.topmuseum.org   Call for details 262 763-3946   

~ free parking ~

 


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   All information subject to change, and watch for additional fun in historic downtown

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historic downtown Burlington Wisconsin map 
more Burlington Wisconsin attractions

~ MORE Events ~
~Farmers' Market:
historic downtown Burlington Wisconsin's : Thursday evenings 
~International Top Spinning Day : Wed Oct. 8, 2008  Free wherever you are.
~Gyroscope Contests  Sat/Sun September 13, 14, either day
~Apple Harvest Days  September 25-26-27, 2008
~Burlington Vortex Conference & Fun Days  Oct. 30- Nov 2, 2008 
-Tongue Twister Contest Sat. Nov. 8, 2008  6 pm 
-150 Mystery Objects: Whatchamacallits   Nov. 7-16, 2008
~Christmas Open House  Nov. 21, 22, & 23 and Dec. 6, 2008
~Spin 4 tops for free :
Most Tue/Wed. afternoons: in the Spinning Top Museum gift shop  (call to confirm hours)

 2009

~14th Annual Yo-Yo Convention   March 13-22, 2009 

~April Fool Fun : March 29, 30, 2008

~Egg Dyeing Event     April 8-11, 2009
~Chocolate Fest  May 22-25, 2009

~Chocolate Yo-Yo Contest   May 2009


 

   ~Gift certificiates for the 2007 Christmas Open house in historic downtown Burlington, WI were from these shops and museums:
Allison Wonderland, Artistic Fibers,  Burlington Flowers & Interiors,  Burlington Footwear,
 Burlington Health Foods,  Burlington Menswear,  Chase Bank, Chocolate Expressions,  Pine Street Curiosities,  Delights, Exclusively Yours Floral,  Fox River State Bank,  Happy Cayuse, Jasmine Tree,  Midwest Wildlife Gallery, Sci-fi Café,  Shy Violet, Spinning Top & Yo-Yo Museum

~Discover other surprises throughout downtown at toy stores, flower shops,  banks, clothing stores, art galleries, health food shops, gift shops
 

~Free parking for shopping at your leisure
Five downtown unique *museums including the
Spinning Top & Yo-Yo Museum, hands-on Logic Puzzle Museum, 
Earth Mysteries Museum, Burlington Historical Museum, Chocolate Museum.
Always call ahead for each museum's hours. 

 ~Enjoy Historic Downtown Burlington Wisconsin~
Burlington is in Racine County. 12 minutes from Lake Geneva. 45 minutes from Milwaukee.
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**Read all about it
APPLE HARVEST DAYS, BUSHELS OF FUN
IN HISTORIC DOWNTOWN BURLINGTON
Thursday through Saturday, September 25-27, 2008 

             Enjoy apples and old fashion fun along with specialty shopping downtown historic Burlington, Thursday through Saturday, September 25-27, 2008 where there will be bushels of fun. It’s the 2nd Annual Apple Harvest Days downtown event.  Red apples, red balloons, and scarecrows decorate the quaint historic district with unusual shops in historic buildings: the setting for old fashion fun, apple delights, shopping, and even a Scarecrow Contest.

Bring the family and enjoy the many little shops that will be offering fun in the form of I Spy Apple Hunts, Guess the Weight of the Apple Basket, drawings for prizes, and special discounts. “Everyone is invited to our beautiful historic downtown for this fun, music, apples and special days of shopping,” said Mary Brensinger, “as well as the Thursday Farmer’s Market and 5 different unique Museum tours.” 

 On Saturday the live Scarecrow can be seen walking around pulling her wagon throughout downtown again this year selling delicious Fresh Apples from Ela Orchard.  Old fashion scarecrows will be posted at shop entrances, so bring your camera. 

           Apple I Spy challenges customers visiting the participating stores to locate the apples with letters on each one. The goal is to unscramble the letters to spell a word making you eligible for a prize or drawing.

Special tasty apple items include the Grater Tater’s warm spiced apples to accompany your baked sweet potato, Apple Carmel Cheesecake Dessert at Zumpano’s, cider at a variety of shops, apple pie and fresh taffy apples at the Sci-Fi Café, and Brightonwood Orchards apples at many locations. Always good treats from Trinity United Methodist and St. Joseph’s Parish bake sale.

 Saturday sidewalk games are extra fun for all. Pine Street Curiosities Shop’s pick a duck game, What’s your Art shop’s make and take, hopscotch games on many sidewalks, Spinning Top Museum’s challenging fast action top spinning game to try, and the Logic Puzzle Museum’s apple puzzle are all old fashion fun.

Apple Harvest Day visitors are invited to guess the weight of the bushel basket of apples at Burlington Footwear, Allison in Wonderland and other shops; then estimate the weight, and enter their guess in the contest. The closest estimate is eligible for a prize.
            Saturday’s street performers include musicians Greg Clark, Terry Murphy, Jeff Peterson, and returning from last year is Jeff Kramer’s CloverLic Mountain Laurels playing old time banjo & mandolin.

            Art by the Gathering will be displayed in front of Burlington Flowers  & Interiors shop and artists Kathryn Storey and Chris Bull will have art for sale in front of Exclusively Yours Floral.  Jewelry by Karen Weidner and special items from downtown shops add to the fun shopping days.

             Shoppers get a chance for extra fun by picking up the apple and find your discount at certain stores and other locations have the red item table sales to browse through.

             On Saturday, five museums in downtown provide many choices of family fun. Museum tours include the Earth Mysteries Museum all day, the Historic Log Cabin from 10-4, Chocolate Museum 10-2, Logic Puzzle Museum at 11:30m for a 90-minute hands-on visit, plus a 4 pm Saturday evening hands-on tour and program at the Spinning Top & Yo-Yo Museum.

The Saturday Scarecrow Contest is fun to enter or to come to see.  First, at home, turn your broom upside down and turn it into a scarecrow, then bring to downtown Burlington Saturday for the 10 am contest. The scarecrow contest is followed by the Scarecrow Parade along the sidewalks of the downtown. “This is such a fun and funny sight to see! Do bring your cameras and umbrellas,” said Judith Schulz, contest organizer.

 Both adults and youth may enter the Scarecrow Contest to win prizes. As part of the contest, all entrants take part in the parade following the judging held in front of Teacher Place & Parent Resources, 533 Milwaukee Ave.  Call (262) 763-3946 for details.  Scarecrow Contest Rules are posted online at www.burlingtonchamber.org.  Scarecrow contest prizes:

--$40 Family Bowling Pkg.: Bowl & enjoy pizza & soda at Towne & Country Lanes! Includes shoe rental

--$10 Delights certificate!

--$25 Fun Zone certificate!

--Cowgirls shirt from Burlington Footwear! 

Sponsors of this year’s annual Apple Harvest Days include Allison Wonderland, Burlington Flowers & Interiors, Burlington Footwear, Burlington Health foods, Burlington Library, Curiosities, Delights, Exclusively Yours Floral, Fox River State Bank, Grater Tater, Happy Cayuse, Ide Fine Jewelry, Logic Puzzle Museum, Midwest Wildlife Gallery, Schuette Daniels Furniture, Shy Violet, Spinning Top & Yo-Yo Museum, Teacher Place, and Zumpano’s.  Photos from last year can be seen on http://www.topmuseum.org/48.html.

For more information or call Mary Brensinger at 262 763-3050, as well as visit  www.burlingtonchamber.org    Burlington is just 10 minutes from Lake Geneva, 30 minutes from Racine, 30 minutes from Southridge, and a short 2 hours from Chicago. 

 Parking is free all day in city parking lots, a treat unto itself.

 

 

 

 

 



 

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          533 Milwaukee Avenue (Hwy 36), historic downtown Burlington,
     Wisconsin 53105  USA     
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