The Land of the Lady Slipper Festival is BACK!! Help us celebrate our famous wildflower in Minnesota’s only National Park. Voyageurs National Park is located on the Minnesota/Canadian Border. Kabetogama Lake is a large resort community and attracts vacationers from all corners of the nation.



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LAND OF THE LADY SLIPPER FESTIVAL FLYER

Land of the Lady Slipper Festival

The Land of the Lady Slipper Festival is BACK!! Help us celebrate our famous wildflower
in Minnesota’s only National Park. Voyageurs National Park is located on the Minnesota/Canadian
Border. Kabetogama Lake is a large resort community and attracts vacationers from all corners
of the nation. Our festival is held on a Friday, Saturday and Sunday to take advantage of two
different weekly vacation shoppers. It's a colorful and exciting event offering great food, music
and entertainment, scenic nature walks and hiking trails, boat tours and cruises, naturalist guided
activities and workshops, and an exceptional group of artists and craft designers. We are a small and
unique festival providing exhibitors a profitable show. We hope that you join us for our annual
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The Lady Slipper event planners are currently looking for any volunteers to help during the event, or if you know of anyone
who would like to have a food booth in the festival, provide children’s activities or would like to provide entertainment, please
call Mel at 218-875-2621 or 800-524-9085 or drop us an e-mail.

FESTIVAL DATES ~ July 11, 12 and 13, 2008 ~ RAIN OR SHINE
July 11 & 12 ~ 10 am - 5 pm July 13 ~ 10 am - 3 pm

● Outdoor Juried Arts & Crafts Show ● Food & Music Daily
● Free North Country Canoe Rides & Boat Tours
Saturday, July 12th – Limited Seating – Sign-Up Required
▪ Canoes - 11am, 12:30, 1, 2:30, 3 & 4:30pm
▪ Boat Tours - 1-1/2 hour trips 3, 5 ,& 7pm
● Entertainment
▪ John E. Cash - appearing Saturday – 1 pm-5 pm
▪ Paul Imholte - String man & Strolling Musician appearing daily

● International Early Iron Antique Car Show – Sunday
● Kiddy Activities
▪ Tracker Hayrides – Friday & Sunday
▪ Pony Ring – Saturday ▪ Barrel Train Ride daily

● Seminars & infor on local history & Voyageurs Nat’l Park

Made possible in part by the Kabetogama Community Club & grant from Iron Range Resources

SHOWY LADY'S SLIPPER (Cypripedium reginae) - Minnesota’s state flower. Native perennial, 1-2', in fens,
swamps, drainages. Flowers, 1-3 on a stalk, have a large white and pink pouch with narrow, white petals. Blooms in June to
mid- July. The scientific name means “queen’s slipper.”

The usually pink, but occasionally red or white flower is about 1" - 2" long, is cleft in the middle, and has the
unmistakable slipper, or moccasin shape to it. The cleft in the middle is actually an entrance for insects, which acts as
a one way door. Inside the flower small hairs "direct" the insect (usually bees) where to go, some never do make it out.
If they do manage to follow the hairs properly they are sent through a very narrow passage, which forces the bee or
whatever bug it may bee to be coated in pollen. All that and the insect hardly gets any nectar to show for it's hard work.
Once the flower is fertilized and the seeds dispersed, they need to find a mycorrhizal fungus, in order to germinate and
grow. It may take two to three years before the plant emerges to flower. Without the mycorrhizal fungus the flower is
unable to absorb any nutrition, since the roots and tubers are without root hairs to perform this function. Once the plant
does flower it may bloom every summer for a century or more. The plant has two large (up to 8"), broad, parallel veined,
basal leaves and is the only lady's slipper to not have stem leaves. The stem itself can reach heights of up to 18".

MORE FACTS ABOUT THE LADY SLIPPER

	The Pink and White Lady's Slipper is a robust plant, arising from a rhizome with a fascicle of numerous fibrous roots, 25-90 cm high.
	Several to many stems may arise from the same rootstock.
	The leaves of the Pink and White Lady's Slipper plant are 3-5, ovate, 10-25 cm long and 4-16 cm wide; and densely pubescent.
	In the language of flowers, Lady's Slipper means Capricious Beauty.
	The Pink and White Lady's Slipper grows slowly, taking 4 - 16 years to produce their first flower.
	The Pink and White Lady's Slipper orchid lives in a special relationship with soil fungi (Rhizoctonia), which helps the seeds germinate and grow.
	The fungus nourishes the seedling for 2 or 3 years before the plant has leaves large enough to sustain itself by photosynthesis.
	Flowering in Pink and White Lady's Slipper is only seen between June 20 to mid-July.

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