The President of Kinmundy Promotions, Inc. has announced a dozen more log cabins are coming to the Log Cabin Village.
David Hanks made the announcement over the weekend at the first weekend of the Log Cabin Fall Festival which attracted more than 7,000 people.
He says the additional cabins are coming from another log cabin village in Oakland, Illinois that has shut down following the deaths of the father and son who were putting the project together.
“One of them was local. It was a Barksdale cabin that came out east of Alma. That was when they called me out originally seeing if we were interested in that cabin. We looked and told them we would bring them all down here if that would make them happy. So we are going to set them all up in their own little village and have a Log Cabin Sub Division.”
Hanks says for tax purposes, they need to have the cabins all down at their Oakland location by the end of the year. He estimates it will take five to ten years to get all the cabins up in their new location.
“Most of them are one room. We have one big Dog Trot cabin that’s coming in and one with a summer kitchen on it.”
Volunteers have successfully put up two other new cabins that were brought from different places in Clay County. They were both donated to preserve them. Since last year’s festival, another cabin that was in disrepair has had a new roof put on along with other improvements.
Hanks says the non-profit group is looking for more people to help with the restoration work.
Kinmundy promotions first started to work for park improvements in Kinmundy and help preserve the Labor Day festivities. They were later able to work with the Shriners to purchase the Log Cabin Village after the land had been deeded to them by the Ingram family which started the village.
Hanks reported that paid attendance on Saturday was a record, topping 4,000 people. At one point traffic was backed up to Route 37 in Kinmundy waiting to get in. Another 3,250 attended on Sunday.
The Fall Festival will be held again next Saturday and Sunday. There will once again be about 150 vendors.
The General Store building.
Making Butter. Left to right: Sarah and Ezra Bridges of Kinmundy.
Nancy Hanna inside the Anderson cabin which was used by a cobbler.
Salem Delcimer group plays for the crowd. Left to right: Susan Smith, Lynn Larimore, and Rick McCullum.
The table is set by the fireplace in one of the cabins.
Making rope. Jerry Johnson of Pinckneyville (right) shares the art of rope-making with Cory McElroy of Farina.
Preparing dinner. Olivia Burkey and Graham Taylor cutting up vegetables.
There is even a jail in the Log Cabin Village.
