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Events in Hannibal & Hannibal Festivals

Name: BOOM! The Rise & Fall of Missouri's Black Business Districts
Start: 2019-7-8T10-10-00-00
End: 2019-8-15T18-18-00-00
Location: Hannibal Free Public Library

Looking for year-round fun? You don’t have to look any further than Hannibal, MO. There are great events in Hannibal scheduled throughout the year, with Missouri festivals for every occasion.

Annual Hannibal Festivals

Looking for fun the whole family can enjoy? Hannibal hosts a variety of annual festivals each year. Kick off your summer with the Twain on Main Festival each May during Memorial Day weekend. This weekend of fun features art, crafts, great food, and entertainment for the whole family. Meet your favorite characters, shop local artisans and experience some of the best food in the Midwest.

Hannibal is also the proud host of National Tom Sawyer Days for more than 60 years. Our free street festival includes a huge Missouri craft festival, carnival rides, and fun children’s events. No Fourth of July would be complete without fireworks, and this Hannibal event delivers with fireworks over the Mississippi! Celebrate Mark Twain and Hannibal’s rich local history. Unique Hannibal events can easily be found as well. The Big River Steampunk Festival, held each Labor Day Weekend, has to be seen to be believed! The annual Victorian Festival of Christmas in December offers Holiday cheer for everyone.

Browse our calendar for a complete list of upcoming festivals hosted in Hannibal.

Hannibal, Missouri Events

Hannibal plays host to a number of exciting events each year. Discover car shows, live entertainment, exhibits, sporting events, and more in our annual calendar. New events are constantly added in this scenic Mississippi river town.

View upcoming events in Hannibal below!

july, 2019

08jul(jul 8)10:00 am15aug(aug 15)6:00 pmBOOM! The Rise & Fall of Missouri's Black Business Districts

Event Details

Hannibal Free Public Library will display the Missouri State Museum’s traveling exhibit, “Boom! The Rise and Fall of Missouri’s Black Business Districts.” The opening event begins at 6:30 p.m. on July 8^th. This drop-by reception without a presentation concludes at 7:45 p.m. It will be held at the Library on the second floor. The seven panel exhibit was inspired by the Missouri State Parks booklet, “The Business: African-American Business People from Missouri’s Past.” The exhibit interprets the history of five Black business districts throughout the state: The Foot in Jefferson City, The Wedge in Hannibal, The Sharp End in Columbia, Vine Street in Kansas City, and the Ville in St. Louis. The panel featuring The Wedge in Hannibal highlights the people who influenced the growth and development of some of Hannibal’s most prolific and enterprising men and women. Due to segregation, overt and institutional racism, such business centers served as a cornerstone of Black life, culture and survival in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The exhibit highlights the people and events, both local and national, with influenced the growth and development of some of Missouri’s most prolific and thriving business communities. The exhibit will be viewable during Library hours, Monday and Tuesday, from 10:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m., and Wednesday through Saturday, from 10:00 to 6:00 p.m. It is free and open to the public. For more information, please call 573-221-0222, or visit Hannibal Free Public Library at 200 South Fifth Street.

Photo credit: “Memorial Stone Located at the Wedge,” from African American Community…found at www.hannibal.lib.mo.us

Time

July 8 (Monday) 10:00 am - August 15 (Thursday) 6:00 pm

Location

Hannibal Free Public Library

200 South 5th Street Hannibal, MO

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10augAll Day11Featured5th Annual Bear Creek Rendezvous

Event Details

Relive the early 1800s and experience Native American culture by visiting the third annual Bear Creek Rendezvous, to be held 9 a.m. to dusk Saturday, Aug. 10, and 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 11, at the Mark Twain Cave Complex, 300 Cave Hollow Road, in Hannibal.

The event, sponsored by Standing Bear Council, aims to educate attendees about tribal history and culture.

Coleberd is not Native American, she said, but having grown up in Wyoming, she does have an interest in the culture. To bring awareness of the Native American way of life, she enlisted the help of the Keokuk, Iowa, nonprofit Standing Bear Council, the mission of which is to educate about Native Americans.

The event will include demonstrations of primitive knife and tomahawk throwing, woodworking, flint napping, gun-ball making, tanning, pottery making and Native American cooking. Children’s games will be played, and Native American genealogy will be shared.

There also will be an open-air market and tribal music and dancing.

Teepees will be set up, too.

“There’s always at least one teepee. This is a family-oriented event, and my first goal for it was to have a teepee and have children ask questions about it,” Coleberd said.

Each year, the Bear Creek Rendezvous grows, as do Coleberd’s ideas for what else can be done the following year.

“This is still a small event, and although I think it will grow bigger each year, being small is OK because that’s the way it was back then,” Coleberd explained.

“Rendezvous” was 1800s trapper jargon for the sale and trade of furs, hides and other goods. Representatives of fur companies announced each spring or summer where they would drive their mule trains, and trappers then would set out with their skins and hides to meet the fur companies at those locations.

A rendezvous was known as a lively place where trappers, Native Americans and others would gather to dance, play music, feast, compete in contests of skill and, of course, trade and sell goods.

573-221-1656

Time

august 10 (Saturday) - 11 (Sunday)

Location

Mark Twain Cave Complex

300 Cave Hollow Rd # 7097 County Road 453, Hannibal, MO 63401

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