LAFAYETTE, Ind. — The Tippecanoe Arts Federation (TAF) announces 28 organizations throughout Region 4 (Benton, Carroll, Cass, Clinton, Fountain, Howard, Jasper, Montgomery, Newton, Pulaski, Tippecanoe, Tipton, Warren, and White Counties) will receive a total of $116,393.00 in grant awards for Fiscal Year 2010.

Earlier this year volunteer citizen peer panels, convened by TAF, reviewed 30 proposals. Grant awards were approved August 3, 2009 during the TAF board of director’s meeting.

Grants are made possible by the Indiana Arts Commission with funds appropriated by the Indiana General Assembly and the U.S. Congress, through the National Endowment for the Arts, and are for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2009.

The following organizations from Region 4 were approved for funding:

Activities of the Tippecanoe Arts Federation are provided, in part, with support from the Indiana Arts Commission, a state agency, with funds from the Indiana General Assembly and the National Endowment for the Arts.

LAFAYETTE, Ind. — The Tippecanoe County Historical Association announces the hiring of Leslie Martin Dotson as the coordinator of the Feast of the Hunters’ Moon. An anthropologist, Martin Dotson’s main areas of interest and expertise lie in the Great Lakes fur trade era and the American cowgirl.

Martin Dotson has extensive experience in the museum and living history fields. She graduated with Suma Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa honors from Purdue University, and did graduate work in anthropology at Indiana University.

She currently serves as President of the Yankee Doodle Muzzle Loaders, Inc. and as Executive Director of the Kalamazoo Living History Show, the largest indoor antique arms/living history event in the country.

Martin Dotson also works as a consultant for the National Muzzle Loading Rifle Association, the national association dedicated to the sport of muzzle loading. As the National Muzzle Loading Rifle Association’s American History Events Coordinator, she is responsible for the living history programming of the “NMLRA’s” National Shoots and as the event organizer of the Lore of the Laughery, an 18th century historical reenactment. She has recently taken on the responsibility of coordinating the NMLRA’s museum exhibits at their national headquarters in Friendship, Indiana. Martin Dotson serves on the board of directors for Mississinewa 1812, the largest War of 1812 living history event in North America. Martin Dotson was a featured speaker at the National Rifle Association’s National Convention in 2008.

In years past she has served in several capacities for the Tippecanoe County Historical Association, including Fort Ouiatenon Site Manager and lead interpreter, Gift Shops Manager, and the coordinator of the Feast of the Hunters’ Moon.

Martin Dotson has won many awards in the travel and tourism industry, including the state of Indiana’s Hoosier Hospitality award, the Lafayette-West Lafayette Convention and Visitors Bureau Community Ambassador Award, and Community Service Awards from the cities of Lafayette and West Lafayette. She was an honoree in the YWCA’s Salute to Women.

The Tippecanoe County Historical Association is a non-profit organization dedicated to enriching the lives of Tippecanoe County residents by collecting, preserving, and interpreting our unique and exciting history.

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Motorists are asked to use extra caution when traveling the roadways in and around Fort Quiatenon on Saturday and Sunday, September 27 and 28, 2008. The 2008 Feast of the Hunters’ Moon will be held at that location and there will be a significant increase in motor vehicle and pedestrian traffic in the area.

The event is open to the public from 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM on Saturday and 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM on Sunday. The traffic pattern will remain the same as in years past with a one way traffic pattern in effect on C.R. 300 West (Newman Road), Division Road, and C.R. 350 West from 8:00 AM to close each day. (Download PDF of the Feast of the Hunters’ Moon Local Traffic Route)

Free parking is available at Purdue University Lot L – M north of Ross-Ade Stadium at the corner of Northwestern and Cherry Lane in West Lafayette. Shuttle buses will run from the Stadium to the Feast from 8:00 AM to 6:00 PM on Saturday and 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM on Sunday.

The most widely known festival held in Greater Lafayette is most likely the annual Feast of the Hunters’ Moon, a re-creation of an 18th Century French and Indian trading post on the banks of the Wabash River. The Feast is held on the grounds of Fort Ouiatenon, the site of the first European settlement in Indiana. In addition to craft demonstrations, military re-enactments and authentic foods, two local drum and fife groups make annual appearances at the Feast, the Voyageur Ancient Fife and Drum Corps and the Tippecanoe Ancient Fife and Drum Corps.

This year’s feast (2008) will be held September 27th and 28th. Future Feast dates are scheduled for:

• October 10th and 11th, 2009
• October 2nd and 3rd, 2010

Remember to make your hotel reservations for the Feast early.

LAFAYETTE, Ind. — The spectacle of the landing of the voyageurs and military drills will mix with the aroma of dozens of foods cooked over the open fire Saturday, September 27 and Sunday, September 28 at the 41st Feast of the Hunters’ Moon. More than 3,000 re-enactors at Fort Ouiatenon near West Lafayette, Indiana will bring history to life as they demonstrate the crafts and dances and daily activities of an 18th French fur-trading post.

Discounted tickets for the Feast may now be purchased in advance. Adult advance tickets are $10 and tickets for children age 4 to 16 are $5. Children under 4 are free. At the gate, adult tickets will be $12 and children’s tickets $6.

Families can save even more by purchasing a one-day family pass for $25. The pass covers admission for two adults and four children between the ages of 4 and 16.

Advance sale tickets are available at all March Supermarket, Chase Bank, Lafayette Bank and Trust, PEFCU and Regions Bank locations as well as at the Historical Association’s Battlefield Museum in Battleground and Frank C. Arganbright Genealogy Center on South Street in Lafayette.

Tickets may also be purchased online at: http://www.tcha.mus.in.us/feast.htm

Hours for the Feast of the Hunter’s Moon are from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm EDT, Saturday September 27 and 9:00 am to 4:00 pm EDT, Sunday, September 28 at Fort Ouiatenon Historical Park on South River Road near West Lafayette, Indiana. The Feast is presented annually by the Tippecanoe County Historical Association in cooperation with the Tippecanoe County Parks and Recreation Department.