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Fall in Love with Lead - Community Fall Festival 2023

Arts and Entertainment

September 9, 2023

From: Fall in Love with Lead - Community Fall Festival

Join us for a fun, fall weekend in Lead!

Celebrate this beautiful time of year in the Black Hills with a vendor fair, fall tour, cornhole tournament and live music.

Schedule of Events:

Friday, September 22, 2023

4-6pm – September Chamber Mixer. Northland Auto Center will be having a chamber mixer and ribbon cutting complete with free BBQ and beverages. All are welcome (you don’t need to be a Chamber member!)

7pm – Laugh in Lead at Homestake Opera House featuring Alan Bromwell. Purchase tickets here.

Saturday, September 23, 2023


10am-8pm – Fall Crawl. Get your Fall Crawl card at participating businesses. Collect all the stamps and be entered to win the grand prize! Participating businesses include Black Hills Mining Museum, Lead-Deadwood Arts Center, Bob’s Silver Star, Wandering Mynds, Greenfield Pub, Rustic Nook Bakery Outlaw Tacos, Sanford Lab Homestake Visitor Center, Miners & Merchants, Aspire Boutique and Lotus Up. More businesses are being added.

10am – High Society Tour. Follow a guided tour on Main Street featuring the high society of Lead’s past. Meet at That Place in Lead 15 minutes prior.

10am – Self-Destruction Tour. Learn about Lead’s dark past including murders, scandals, horrific deaths and hidden lives. Meet at Aspire Boutique 15 minutes prior.

10am-5pm – Moonlight Over Lead. Free art project for ages 2-18 at Miners’ Tin Cup.

12pm-2pm – Rug Hookers. Traditional wool rug hooking demonstrations at Lead-Deadwood Arts Center.

12:30pm – High Society Tour. Follow a guided tour on Main Street featuring the high society of Lead’s past. Meet at That Place in Lead 15 minutes prior.

12:30pm – Self-Destruction Tour. Learn about Lead’s dark past including murders, scandals, horrific deaths and hidden lives. Meet at Aspire Boutique 15 minutes prior.

2pm – Laugh in Lead at Homestake Opera House featuring local comedians including Mike Klatt, Sheldon Starr, Tyler Corbine & Tyler Mathieson. Purchase tickets here.

3pm-5pm – Street Cleanup. Earn community service hours by beautifying our streets. Meet at the Christian Ministry Center.

3pm-5pm – Plant Swap. Bring a starter plant, succulent, houseplant, veggie plant or flower to swap with another plant lover. In the parking lot by Bob’s Silver Star.

5pm-6:30pm – Spaghetti Dinner. Free community dinner at Christian Ministry Center. Donations appreciated.

5:30pm-7pm – Pegie (Margaret) Douglas performs in the Opera House Courtyard, The Life & Music of Badger Clark, South Dakota’s First Poet Laureate. This is an hour-long program narrating the life of Badger Clark interspersed with many of his poems set to music.

7pm – Laugh in Lead at Homestake Opera House featuring Chad Prather. Purchase tickets here.

Sunday, September 24, 2023

10am & 2pm – Lawrence County Hospital and Poor Farm Tours. Tour the county hospital and poor farm that is located at the Central City KOA campground. For transportation, meet at the Visitor Center parking lot half hour prior to tour.

10am-1pm – Transportation between Homestake Trailheads. Hike from one end of the Homestake Trail to the other without having to worry about transportation. A shuttle will be running between Lead and Deadwood every half hour free of charge, sponsored by Deadwood Cab. Bike rack will be available on the shuttle. The Homestake Trail takes about one hour from end to end and the hike is sponsored by Northern Hills Recreation.

Dates: September 22 - 24, 2023

Location: Various Venues in Lead, SD

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