Tent City Days draws panners, trappers, tots
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Brian O'Connor/ Wrangell Sentinel
Elena Haines twirls for spectators at this year's incarnation of the Madame Fifi Fashion show on second floor of the Elk's Lodge Saturday Evening. The event featured native and camoflage categories.
Local tykes bounced in a jumping castle, took home about 100 goldfish, panned for simulated gold, took in the finer points of fur trapping, and raced beds along a one-block stretch of Front Street this weekend.
Despite frigid temperatures and a biting wind, the annual Tent City Days festival drew crowds to participate in many (mostly indoor) events. The festival commemorates Wrangell's role in gold rushes in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
About 200 children showed up to the youth carnival at the Stikine Native Organizations Building Saturday morning. Funds raised during the event w...
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