2005 Freedom Day photos
The 11th annual Freedom Day celebration went off with a bang and without a hitch. Actually, it went off with a number of BIG bangs, but with one hitch... the weather... which was very uncooperative. Temperature got no higher than 45 (which felt like 39) and both snow showers and sleet forced the bands to depart, and the celebration itself to close early.                                                                        (click on thumbnails for larger images)


The civil war cannon and
the New Ulm battery

Crowd shot

Crowd shot

Crowd shot

John Wilkinson, Charles Test, and Colin Wilkinson

The State Capitol dome

Closeup of the gold statues, titled "Progress of the State", and also called "Quadriga"/

A few libertarian notables after the celebration