International Peace Garden celebrates 90th anniversary
The Promise of Peace statue at the International Peace Gardens with a view through to the Sunken Garden and beyond, Saturday.
DUNSEITH – It was abuzz with tourists at the International Peace Garden, north of Dunseith, over the weekend.
The Standing Rock Sioux Flag Ceremony began activities Friday morning.
Friday evening brought the International Music Camp concert, the taste of 1932 dinner and a visit from Gov. Doug Burgum announcing the new recipient of the Rough Rider Award to the late Merton Utgaard, founder of the International Music Camp located in the Peace Garden.
Saturday’s events kicked off the day with vendors and food trucks strewn across the cairn lawn and nearby parking lot, the Children’s Nature Play Park dedication and Arts and Crafts. Artist Weiming Zhao, from Brandon, Manitoba, was commissioned to capture the entrance and other regions of the garden to commemorate the momentous 90th celebration.
The Manitoba Living History Society was on site demonstrating life on the prairie in the early 1800s. Genevieve Woods of Manitoba said the camp travels three times a summer depicting interactive livelihoods of the farming culture. Laundry, rope making, spinning and toy making are some other interactive trades.
The lush gardens and aromatic fragrance of the fresh and bountiful July gardens lay the background to the new Children’s Nature Play Park, which includes several climbing and interactive play places for children to play. Traditional Indigenous and Metis presentations were also going on near the Friendship Rock as well as historical exhibits about the garden. The Saturday night activities closed out with live entertainment and fireworks.
On Sunday, the events continued throughout the day with live entertainment and an outdoor movie, “Ghostbusters,” showed that evening in the former Athletic Camp, Soccer field.
The International Peace Garden is recognized as “A celebration of peace, a living monument to the ideals and cooperation among nations.”
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- The Promise of Peace statue at the International Peace Gardens with a view through to the Sunken Garden and beyond, Saturday.
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- Sisters Edyn Hertz and Riley Hertz, of Bismarck, pose on the Turtle Play Zone at the Children’s Nature Play Park area grand opening and ribbon cutting, Saturday, at the International Peace Gardens.
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- Manitoba Living History Society members Nicole Marginet, Genevieve Woods and Kristine Phillips, all of Manitoba, Canada, are in full costume interacting as 1815 settlers doing laundry, Saturday, at the International Peace Gardens.
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- This is a view of the Visitor Center, gift shop, interpretive center and cafe through the flowers and foliage.
Sisters Edyn Hertz and Riley Hertz, of Bismarck, pose on the Turtle Play Zone at the Children’s Nature Play Park area grand opening and ribbon cutting, Saturday, at the International Peace Gardens.
Manitoba Living History Society members Nicole Marginet, Genevieve Woods and Kristine Phillips, all of Manitoba, Canada, are in full costume interacting as 1815 settlers doing laundry, Saturday, at the International Peace Gardens.
This is a view of the Visitor Center, gift shop, interpretive center and cafe through the flowers and foliage.