The Official Newspaper for Foster County
The Official Newspaper for Foster County
The International Peace Garden’s Summer Celebration August 11 – 13 features movies, magic, live music, 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 August 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 Charles Bannon case about a town that rises up to take justice into its own hands when a family mysteriously disappears from the town of Schafer, North Dakota. “Sanctified,” a western set in the late 1800s, will be screened August 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 August 13 at 2 p.m. The film is centered on 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, the Cruise In Car Show, the Peace Vendor Market, the new Children’s Nature Play Area, and kids activities including rock painting, making friendship bracelets, a bouncy house and a scavenger hunt. More details, dates and times for all events are on the Garden’s website at peacegarden.com/events.
