The 6th Annual Sock Monkey Madness Festival is happening this weekend, March 6th and 7th, in Rockford, Illinois. So grab your sock monkey, load up your Kia, and head out!

The Sock Monkey Madness Festival was awarded a national 2009 Leadership in History Award of Merit from the American Association for State and Local History for excellence in educational programming. So you can enjoy some pop culture, and and count it as an educational experience in one trip.

There will be Sock Monkey merchandise, of course, as well as history of the sock monkey starting back to the Great Depression. Films will be playing from the annual Sock Monkey International Film Festival. You can join a workshop to make your own sock monkey. Your ill sock monkey can visit the Sockford General Hospital for a checkup or general surgery. Or simply find some new accessories or clothing for your well loved sock monkey. If you dream in sock monkey, this is the place to be.
Admission is $8 adults; $4 children and students (3 to 17)

Midway Village Museum members and sock monkeys are free.

For more information, visit the Midway Village Museum site.

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