Annie Oakley quote

Honoring Annie Oakley on the 100th Anniversary of her passing. Darke County is commemorating her legacy throughout the month of July with shooting contests, a film premiere, and the opportunity to hold her gun! Most of these events are sponsored by the Annie Oakley Center Foundation and are scheduled in the last week of July during the week of Annie Oakley Days.

  • Annie Oakley enthusiasts can hold Annie's gun, a 1910 J. Stevens .22 caliber deluxe target rifle with a Scheutzen butt, inside Garst Museum during the Gathering at Garst festival July 25-26. $10 for adults, and $5 for youth. This extraordinary experience will be a lifetime memory!

    • Hold Annie's Gun, last full weekend in July at the Garst Museum, Greenville, OH'

  • During the 250th celebration of America, "Ohio Goes to the Movies" will feature North Star, a short documentary filmed in Greenville about Annie Oakley. North Star will be shown at the Wayne Theatre July 20 and 21 along with Annie Get Your Gun. Through the generosity of Mike and Sherri Jones, admission to these showings is free.

    • Image of the title card for the movie North Star'

  • Practice your shooting and design a costume to participate in the Miss Annie Oakley shooting contest open to girls 12-19 on July 22 and 23 at the Darke County Fairgrounds. All shooters will all use the same BB gun provided by the committee and start at a distance of 25 feet with each round increasing by 5 feet. Registration is available at annieoakleyfestival.org. The sponsor fee is $50, and cash prizes (1st-$300, 2nd-$200, 3rd-$100, and costume-$100) are awarded.

  • Annie's Memorial Shoot offers women and men the chance to compete with a BB gun against those in their gender to be named "Classic Annie" and "Classic Frank" because we all know that a woman "can't get a man with a gun!" The event will be adding to the excitement on July 24 at the Darke County Fairgrounds. Entrance fee is $20, and cash prizes are awarded for first ($50) and second place ($25) in each gender.

  • Aim, squeeze the trigger, and maybe you will knock a ping pong ball off a bottle at the Rubber Band Shooting Gallery during the Gathering at Garst on the Garst Museum grounds July 25-26. If you tried it at Farm Power of the Past July 9-13 at the Darke County Fairgrounds, you were just warming up! Ten chances for $1.

    • People lined up at a table and shooting toy guns'

 

Images courtesy of the Annie Oakley Center Foundation.
info@annieoakleycenterfoundation.com