GRAND RAPIDS – Seven Eagles Historical Education Center will host a Lost Arts Festival Saturday and
Sunday.
The site is located at 16486 Wapakoneta Road, a mile south of the village and a mile north of U.S. 6.
Among the craftsmen and women demonstrating at the event will be Stanley Zelasko of Sylvania and his
apprentice, grandson Grant Zelasko, who plan to demonstrate leather skills, as well as scrimshaw work on
horns and fire-starting with flint and steel. Zelasko’s work currently is featured in a display at the
Holland branch of the Toledo-Lucas County Public Library.
Brian Jensen, Perrysburg, will be demonstrating Native American-style beadwork, and Sarah Badenhop,
Napoleon, plans to demonstrate candle dipping the pioneer way.
Among the other skills visitors can see are a wheelwright making a wooden wheel, a soap-maker,
flint-knappers and a blacksmith forging iron.
More displays may include campfire cooking, hand-sewing and other glimpses into the lives of pioneers.

Along with a visit to an 1800s log cabin, the homestead will feature animals to see and pet. Visitors can
also tour the rest of the grounds, which includes a Native American longhouse, trapper’s cabin and
Scottish tavern.
Visitors can try their hand at primitive archery, borrow a cane pole and drop a line or paddle canoes
around the island in Cricket Frog Pond.
Hours will be 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday. Admission and parking are free,
but donations are encouraged.