Traditions Alive

Keweenaw Krayons
Traditions Alive!!

Keweenaw Krayons Traditions Alive is an interactive history group of youth and adults who meet to learn and celebrate local history

Traditions Alive participants create and dress in period costume. They play old fashioned games, and make and eat old fashioned food, with strawberry ice cream being their favorite. One of their favorite activities was meeting with the local curling club to learn about the sport with hands-on participation.

They have learned traditional dances and have appeared in costume at various historical community events. They have also donated many history books to the Calumet Public Library.

The public is invited to attend the membership meeting and learn more about the group and the upcoming activities including mine tours, classes and workshops in dancing, cooking, costume making, needlework and other traditional arts.

If you wish to have the group to appear at your community event, or want to know more about the group, please call Keweenaw Krayons at 337-4706 or email staff@keweenawkrayons.com

Photos: Becky Weeks Helping a student with her project and Traditions Alive members, Ariel and Jesse
  looking over books donated to CLK library by Keweenaw Krayons

Traditions Alive is a great place to meet other youth and their families who are interested in the history of the area - especially during the early 1900s.
We research and make our own costumes. We play games - hoops, curling...

Add a touch of history to your upcoming event!
We appear at various community functions such as Calumet's Pasty Fest & Heritage Days, Central's Reunion and more.
Appearance Fees:

2 to 4 hrs - $50   4 - 8 hrs - $100 and, as always, we are open to bartering!!!
Call 906-337-4706

The 1840's Drawn Bonnet on the left was created by Traditions Alive Fiber Artist, Becky Weeks. More of Becky's creations can be found at www.oldefashioned.com
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Traditions Alive is a great program in which young and old alike study the history of the Keweenaw in the early 1900s. They dress in costumes (many of which they have made themselves with the help of fiber artist Becky Weeks. You can see some of Becky's creations at www.oldefashioned.com

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A collage of what we have learned about quilting so far.

Christian Playing Hoops

Historian Wil Shapton

   In 2002-2003 we were funded by the Michigan Humanities Council. As we enter this summer of 2005 we have no main source of funding and relay on appearance fees, fundraisers and donations.

Appearance Fees:

2 to 4 hrs - $50   4 - 8 hrs - $100

Prior Funding came from Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs & the National Endowment for the Arts