At this amphitheater, Longfellow's epic poem "The Song of Hiawatha" was produced annually for sixty years, from 1949 to 2008, by the Hiawatha Club of Pipestone. The cast of actors, production staff, and Indian village crowd numbered up to two hundred volunteers for nine weekend evenings each summer. The production drew visitors from around the world, and in 1952 Life magazine published a story and scenes from the pageant. In 2014, the Hiawatha Club, then comprised of eighty citizens, donated the forty-acre site to the City of Pipestone to be used as a park for the enjoyment of present and future citizens of the Pipestone area.