Five Medals at the Trace festival returns to Ligonier this weekend! We hope to see you there May 6, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. & Sunday, May 7, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., at Stones Trace Historic Site, south of Ligonier, at the intersection of U.S.33 and S.R. 5. Admission is $8 for adults and free for children younger than 12.
A weekend-long historical reenactment festival is back early this year and bigger than ever. Five Medals at The Trace festival organizers chose to move the annual historical reenactment festival to springtime to coordinate better with other regional events, and the result is more reenactors can attend. Five Medals at The Trace festival is named after an Elkhart River Potawatomi chief, named Five Medals (Wanyanoshonya in Bodwéwadmimwen). Dragoo recalled Five Medal’s push for agrarian society alongside the pioneers as Americans pushed further West. He traveled to Washington, D.C., with Little Turtle to meet with then-president Thomas Jefferson to make his requests known before the War of 1812. The first white settlements came to the area around 1829 and festival honors the time before that, from the middle 1600s up through the War of 1812.
