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Travel Berkeley Springs
127 Fairfax Street
Berkeley Springs, WV 25411
800-447-8797
304-258-9147
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Week of August 30- September 5, 2010
The
traditional end-of-summer Labor Day weekend is celebrated in a traditional
family
and community way.
Sunday is the South Morgan Festival at the Fire Hall starting at 1pm
and featuring a country supper, games and live bluegrass music by Five
of A Kind. Monday is Homecoming at Cacapon
State Park starting at 1pm
and featuring a full program of local music, games and food as well as
another auction. There's plenty of other outdoor family fun at Cacapon including an 18-hole golf course, miles of mountain hiking trails, a
lake with sand beach, horseback riding and clay shooting.
The vintage Star Theatre hops on the family fun bandwagon with the animated
hit, "Despicable Me." There is a Sunday matinee at 2pm as well
as regular Friday through Sunday evening showings at 8pm. The kids will
love the experience ...and the popcorn.
The Troubadour Lounge has
a music saturated weekend planned with the Flashbacks at the Friday night
concert outside from 9pm to midnight.
Saturday from 9pm to midnight is country dancing to live music. Sunday
is the big day with the Troubadour's annual
Remembering Patsy Cline Day. Everything but the drinks are free. It's
a covered dish party with music
ranging from the Country Majestics to the Cajun River Band. While you
are there, be certain to cruise the West Virginia Country Music Hall
of Fame.
There is even MORE music. The
Fairfax Coffee House presents the bluegrass
and gospel sound of the Lickety Split Banjo Boys at 8pm on Friday while
on Saturday evening it's Irish music from Stevie Morris and Dennis Vaughan,
also at 8pm. Sunday, Panorama
at the Peak features Larry Bish and his
acoustic guitar at Sunday brunch from 11am to 2pm. Bish's music is not
the only thing back at Panorama. So are the memorable turkey croquettes
currently made from the famous organic turkeys of Ayrshire Farm.
More Saturday night fun is a free Dance Night at Rankin
Physical Therapy from 7 to 9pm. If you want to know what the rest of the year will bring,
have your fortune told at the Star Theatre from noon to 4pm on Saturday.
Sign up on the door and take your pick -- astrologer or card reader?
Shopping is the best way to see the downtown streets of the Bath Historic
District while searching out fabulous treasures. DO NOT MISS the two
day Sidewalk Sale at Hunter's Hardware on Thursday and Friday from 8am
to 5pm. Thursday afternoon and Sunday from 10am to 2pm it's the overflowing
local food bounty of the Berkeley
Springs Farmers Market. The
Vintage Kitchen, just a block east of the courthouse, is having
their fall sale with extra hours on Friday. Also on Sunday from 10am
to 4pm,
It's Art in the Park set up in Berkeley
Springs State
Park on Sunday from 10am to 4pm.
Speaking of art -- this is the final weekend for "Putting on the
Dog", a gallery show at the Ice
House devoted to artists' views
of their favorite canines. You'll find everything from handcrafted dog
clothes to a three headed dog totem pole. The
Ice House Gallery is open
11am to 5pm on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. There are more than a dozen
other great locales for shopping including previously owned items at
Retrodini ('50s), R.A.G.
Shop (recycled American Goods), Berkeley
Springs Books and a pair of antique malls plus several shops.
Dining is another experience not to be missed with porch dining and outdoor
decks as well as hip, comfortable or elegant settings. From Fresh Fish
Frenzy on Friday at Temptations
Cafe, to half price appetizers and shrimp
at Ambrae House's happy hour (actually two,) to the best ribs in town
at Tari's Cafe, to the most elegant bar around at Lot
12, silver service
dinner Saturday night at Highlawn
Inn, to three special meals a day at
the Country Inn, to steaks at Angus
and Ale to
family
friendly dining at Earth Dog Cafe and Cacapon
State Park and Maria's
Garden and Mi Ranchito and.....you get the point. Eating could fill your
whole weekend. If dining in is what you want, check out Tony's
Butcher Block for fresh meats as well as killer subs and remarkable pepperoni
rolls (state food of West Virginia.)
We can go on and on about spas,
and swimming in the pool at Berkeley
Springs State Park -- or splashing in the springs channels and pools,
and the Museum in
the park, and following the Washington
Heritage Trail National Scenic Byway and ending up wandering through the Paw Paw Tunnel.
So much to do, you have to stay for days. So check out the lodging
places and make your choice.
There are cabins, lodges and vacation homes in the surrounding wilderness;
in town find elegant historic B&Bs and the Country
Inn. More than
100 choices -- you'll find exactly what you need. Come to Berkeley
Springs to cap off the summer and savor our centuries-long experience at welcoming
guests and hosting homecomings.
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