Sue Sitter/PCT Blacksmith helper Troy Blumhagen, left, sits for a tintype wet plate process photograph taken by Kari Janousek at the Prairie Village and Museum Village Fair Sunday, Aug. 13.

The Prairie Village and Museum hosted its annual Village Fair Sunday, Aug. 13.

Approximately150 visitors attended the event.

Fairgoers and young volunteers dressed in late-1800s costumes ducked into buildings in the site’s prairie village to see all sorts of attractions. In a space next to the village’s train station, visitors sat for wet-plate collodion photos taken by Fargo artist Kari Janousek. The prints, called tintypes, were positive photographic images on thin metal plates.

A few steps away on the boardwalk, the village’s blacksmith shop attracted a small crowd. Dean Hagen, Maddock, and two helpers stood at an anvil, hammering hot pieces of iron into hooks.

Ryli Kuhnhenn, a re-enactor who volunteered in the village saloon serving up root beer and sassafras. Kuhnhenn was one of “six or seven volunteers” in period costumes.

In another room in the saloon, volunteer Edie Wurgler played the piano while volunteer Annie Risovi led visitors on sing-a-longs to popular tunes from early prairie life.

Other activities included English Country Dancing in the museum’s Sandven Building. The lively steps made some imagine a time when settlers from English-controlled Rupert’s Land farmed in the northern part of the state in the early 1800s.