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September
September 4 Annual OPEN HOUSE at Shiloh General Store. Free food and cheese samples, covered picnic area,
ice cream, vendors with flowers, furniture, food and buildings, 9a to 4p,
5520 St.Paul Church Road, Hamptonville, 336-468-4789.
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GHOST TOURS
Ghost Tour dates are September 11, and October 22 and 23.
Tours begin at 7:30pm and leave from the Old Jail in thirty minute increments with the last tour beginning at 9:00pm.
Dates are subject to change so please check the website or call the Wilkes Heritage Museum to confirm dates.
Ghost tours begin at the Old Jail and progress to the Cleveland Cabin, Smithey Hotel, English Cottage, Brown-Cowles House, Johnson-Hubbard House and the Presbyterian Chapel and Cemetery. Each tour is all walking and lasts approximately forty-five minutes. There are no age limitations to the tours. Guides leave that up to the discretion of the parent or guardian. Admission for the tours is just $5 per person.
For more information please contact the
Wilkes Heritage Museum, 100 East Main Street, Wilkesboro at 336-667-3171
or www.wilkesheritagemuseum.com
The Candlelight Ghost Tours are sponsored in part by Grassroots Funding from the North Carolina Arts Council, a division of the Dept. of Cultural Resources and disbursed through the Cultural Arts Council of Wilkes, the local arts council.
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Forsyth Gem and Mineral Club’s 39th Gem, Mineral, Jewelry Show and Sale at the Dixie Classic Fairgrounds Education Building, September 10-12.
Displays, geode cutting, presentations on copper minerals, pan for gold and one-of-a-kind jewelry, minerals, fossils, meteorites. Enter through gate #9 from 27th St. for free parking. Organized school groups are free; A/$2; kids K-12/$1; under K are free. Hours: 10 to 7 on the 11th, 12th, noon to 5 the 13th. 336-744-2940.
bookmarksfestival.org
September 11-12 Stokes Stomp, Festival on the Dan (River) opens with a Sat. parade, food, arts, crafts, live music all under the shade trees and beside the cool river in Moratock Park, Danbury, Stokes County Arts Council, 336-593-8159 or stokesarts@co.stokes.nc.us
September 17, “After Appomattox”, Civil War photography exhibit by Douglas Butler, North Corridor Gallery, Salem Fine Arts Center, Free, 336-917-5313, Winston-Salem.
September 17-18 is the Blue Ridge Intertribal Pow Wow Association’s 4th Annual Native American Pow Wow at Fort Hamby State Park, Wilkesboro, cosponsored by the W. Kerr Scott Dam. Fri. & Sat. 9 to 9, Sun. 9 to 5;
dancing, drumming, singing, storytelling, flint knapping, flute music,
tee pees, crafts, food. Park: $1 per person/$4 per car and Pow Wow A/$5, kids/$2. Mabel Benjamin: 813-765-3073.
September 13-18 Stokes County Fair,
King Chamber of Commerce: 336-983-9308.
September 18
34th Annual Harvest Festival and Grand Opening of Yadkin Cultural Arts Center. Expanded entertainment, vendors, food, agricultural displays and activities, arts & crafts, rain or shine. 9-4:30pm, Yadkin Arts Council, 336-679-2941, downtown Yadkinville. yadkinarts.org
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PIEDMONT ANTIQUE POWER ASSOCIATION
2nd Annual ANTIQUE TRACTOR PULL
Saturday, Sept. 18, at 3p
*Rain date: Sun., Sept. 19 at 1p
Masonic Picnic Grounds, Poplar Street (Just off N. Main St.), Mocksville, NC
FARMERS—bring out your tractors and pull with us. There will be farm classes added for YOU!
SANCTIONED BY:
Old Time Tractor Pull Association, Denton, NC
Rules can be found on OTTPA’s website: www.ottpainc.com
FRESH COOKED BBQ & HOTDOGS AVAILABLE ALL EVENING!
ADMISSION:
$5 for Adults, 12 & under FREE
under the arbor at 1pm
CJ’s Bluegrass Band starring Mona Jo Griffith
Kiddie Pedal Tractor Pull beginning at 5pm
sign-ups from 3 to 4:45pm
2010 Championship Pull will follow Regular Pull
For more information call Arthur Bostick at 336-492-5992 or visit our website at: www.piedmontantiquepowerassociation.com
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September 18, Historic Bethabara Park’s Apple Fest,
10:30 to 4:30, 336-924-8191, Winston-Salem.
September 18 “Our Faith” is a fund raising event to continue the restoration of the Reeves Theatre in downtown Elkin. Enjoy live gospel music, church baked goods, raffles, and more from 7p to 11p. Call 877-838-5195 for more details.
The Surry Arts Council and City of Mount Airy present: 21st Annual Mayberry Days on September 23-26 a family friendly festival of Mayberry spirit. Golf tournament, dinner, live music, dance, games, booksigning: The Way Back to Mayberry, parade, silent auction are just a few of the choices for the weekend.
Craig Distl told us the NC State Championship BBQ Cook-off sponsored by the NC Pork Council and the Surry Arts Council, in its 26th annual event, offers a $2,000 prize for the winner. “What could be a more genuine NC experience than mixing pork barbecue with Andy, Opie and Barney?” says Tanya Jones, director of Mayberry Days. There are two divisions: culinary and showmanship.Special Guests such as Don’s daughter, Karen Knotts single performance. All shops, restaurants, etc. will have free 2010 Mayberry Days guides on hand.
For more information and TICKETS: On-line or call: 336-786-7998
or www.mayberrydays.org
September 26 Yadkin Valley Pumpkin Festival,
Fourteenth Annual Pumpkin Festival in Downtown Elkin. Laurette Leagon, Yadkin Valley Chamber of Commerce director, is excited about her 2010 Pumpkin Festival on September 25, saying, “Elkin’s downtown streets will be lined with vendors of every description featuring everything from funnel cakes to functional pottery, canned green beans to gourmet coffees, wood furnishings to wine racks, BBQ to baked goods, sand-art to sunrooms, pumpkin butter to Polish sausages, plus a variety of live stage entertainment and the ever-popular pie eating contest and giant pumpkin weigh-in contest.”
This year will mark the fifth year of the Pumpkin Weigh-In to be held at 8a.m. You’ll see mammoth pumpkins of all varieties grown across North Carolina. Ricky Holder of Winston-Salem brought the State Record Pumpkin in 2009, weighing in at 1,258 pounds.
Stage music will feature “The Gray Bryds” from 11 to 1 and “Big Daddy Love” from 2 to 5.
More fun can be had at the Pie Eating Contest held on the front walkway of the Reeves Theatre. Sponsored by the Yadkin Valley General Store the event is during the break of 12:45 to 2.
yadkinvalley.org
October
 The first weekend in October always signals one of the biggest one-day arts and crafts festivals in the entire Southeast. The Brushy Mountain Apple Festival is huge with over 160,000 attendees! It opens with the Apple Jam on Friday, October 1 at 6p at the Brush Mountain Ruritan Club’s 33rd Brushy Mountain Apple Festival Park at the corner of 10th and Main streets. Bring your chair, buy dinner from a local downtown eatery or a vendor and enjoy live music as you relax.
On Saturday, happenings start at 8a and run to 5p.
Downtown streets are closed to traffic unless it’s human traffic! Brushy Mountain Ruritan Club’s information booth is at the intersection of Main and 9th streets where you can get your Souvenir Program and Guide for the event’s schedule of music, dancing, exhibitors, foods, apple recipes, stories and community tales. You’ll find four music stages, dancers, Appalachian Heritage crafts and demonstrations, cider, fresh and dried apples for sale. Once again there will be the traditional Photo Contest with both B/W and color categories and cash prizes.
More details are on applefestival.net where you will also find a search engine to direct you to candy apples or button jewelry! Parking is free if you get there very early otherwise you can pay for a space in the surrounding area lots and ride a shuttle to the festival for just $1.
info: 336-921-3499
applefestival.net
October 2nd is the 31st Sonker Festival at the historic Edwards-Franklin House on Haystack Road from 1 to 5. Sonker is defined as a fruit pot pie or a cobbler. Apple, blackberry, blueberry, cherry, peach, strawberry, sweet potato sonker will be available to purchase, along with coffee/drinks. Enjoy live music, quilt display, clogging. Long-time Surry Historical Society member/volunteer, Emma Jean Tucker shares her Blackberry Sonker. “I make my sonkers the way Mama Rosa Green Tucker used to make hers with a large enough crust to cover the entire baking dish. She covered the bottom of the dish and folded the crust over the top of the fruit.”
1st Presbyterian Church of Thomasville will hold its 5th annual Chilli Cook-off, October 2 from 11am until 2pm.
All proceeds equally to 4 food ministries in Thomasville. This year two great bands perform Carolina Country Grass and
The Ladies Auxiliary. Sheltered seating. Hotdogs, bake sale and cold drinks are available as well as a bowl of chili
(also quarts for take-home)
Cook-off particiants and visitors welcome!
Phil Griffin336-472-2900 pgriffin8@triad.rr.com
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 Sample autumn wines in Yadkinville, surrounded by beautiful, fall color filled countryside and live music, specialty crafts and food vendors plus a kids’ area at the 7th annual Yadkin Valley Grape Festival on October 16 from 11 to 5.
The event has grown in less than 10 years to hosting over 26 vineyards on hand for wine tasting and sales. The Chili Cook Off is sponsored this year by Anthony’s Deli & Bakery of Yadkinville. See page 41 of our Sept/Oct issue for more details.
The Ginny B. Memorial Motorcycle Ride begins and ends at the festival. The event is sponsored by David Cornelius and Mountain Valley Hospice is to benefit Hospice Palliative Care Center and Mountain Valley Hospice. The ride covers some of the most beautiful countryside and vineyards in the area. Registration includes one tee shirt, one tasting ticket, one wine glass, and door prizes.
Yadkin Valley Grape Festival provides shuttle service from the Jonesville, Yadkinville and Boonville area lodgings. Call the Yadkin County Chamber of Commerce 336-679-2200 in advance to make arrangements for transportation by informing your location and the number in your party. The Festival website offers a listing of area motels, guest houses and B & B’s. Find lots of free parking at and around the Festival.
The Festival is free. Wine tasting tickets remain at $15 in advance and $20 at the gate the day of the Festival. Check out the website, yvgf.com for advance tickets, individual and group details, mail to Yadkin County Chamber of Commerce, 205 South Jackson Street, Yadkinville, NC 27055—hurry, no tickets will be mailed out after October 2nd.
Remember, NC State law requires all wine tasters to have and be able to show positive photographic identification at the Ticket Booth in order to obtain a tasting wrist band and complimentary wine glass.
Provisions are available for storing your purchases as you continue your day at the event.
And PLEASE, for health and safety of all attendees, NO PETS or COOLERS will be permitted on the festival grounds.
 Taste the crafts of these participating wineries:
Sanders Ridge Vineyard • Stony Knoll Vineyards • Brushy Mountain Winery
Shelton Vineyards • Misty Creek Vineyards • Cellar 4201 • Raylen Vineyards
RagApple Lassie Vineyards • River de Vine Vineyards • Surry Cellars
Allison Oaks Vineyards • Grassy Creek Vineyards • Flint Hill Vineyards
Brandon Hills Vineyards • Shadow Springs Vineyard • Carolina Heritage Vineyard
Weathervane Winery • Dobbins Creek Vineyards • Hanover Park Vineyard
Round Peak Vineyards • Junius Lindsay Vineyards • Divine Llama Vineyards
Native Vines Winery • Laurel Gray Vineyards
Chatham Hill Winery • Buck Shoals Vineyards
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