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DUNSEITH - The International Peace Garden's Summer Celebration from Aug, 11-13 features movies, magic, live music and special activities for kids and much more. A highlight of the weekend celebration is a series of screenings of three movies produced in North Dakota.
Scheduled for Aug, 11 at 6 p.m., "End of the Rope" is a crime thriller set in McKenzie County in 1931. The film is based on the infamous case of Charles Bannon and a town that rises to take justice into its own hands when a family mysteriously disappears from the town of Schafer.
"Sanctified," a western set in the late 1800s, will be screened Aug. 12 at 2 p.m. Shot in the Badlands, it tells the story of a nun who saves the life of an outlaw and nurses him back to health in return for him guiding her to a church in Williston.
"A Heart Like Water," a frontier survival story set in Dakota Territory in 1887, is scheduled for Aug. 13 at 2 p.m. The film is centered on a husband and wife who must fight to keep their family together and their hopes alive as they fight bitter cold, disease, wild animals and crushing loneliness on the Dakota frontier.
Additional Summer Celebration events include the Comedy Illusions of Greg Wood, live music from the Jantzen Boys and Vertigo. Events include the Cruise in Car Show, the Peace Vendor Market, the Children's Nature Play Area and activities including rock painting, friendship bracelets, bouncy houses, and a scavenger hunt.