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At 10:00am on a sunny morning, about 20 guests stood outside the visitors’ center at Winterthur Mu-seum and Gardens.

They were patiently waiting for the tram that would transport them to the 175-room mansion and adjoining galleries. But as the tram climbed the slopes, it was nature’s adornments that caught the visitors’ eyes. On this day the “March Bank” was at its peak, displaying millions of blue scilla and glory-of-the-snow.

Winterthur isn’t the only attraction that puts on a display. The Brandywine Valley, which straddles

southeastern Pennsylvania and northern Delaware, is so generously peppered with public gardens it’s been dubbed “America’s Garden Capital.”

And no wonder. Bartram’s Garden in Philadel-phia is the oldest-surviving garden in the United States.

While there is something to savor all year long, these gardens create a lush getaway in summer. “That’s when gardens have the most to offer, from blooms to programs,” says Erin McKeon, of Chan-ticleer in Wayne, Pa.

Where the du Ponts once roamed

Credit for many of area’s public gardens goes to the du Pont family, starting with Éleuthère Irénée du Pont de Nemours, the French chemist who in 1801 founded the DuPont Company on the banks of the Brandywine River in Wilmington.

Now known as Hagley Museum and Library, the 235-acre site details the history of the gunpowder works. However, the family’s first home, Eleuthe-

rian Mills, and its French gardens are also attrac-tions — as are the park-like grounds, wildflowers, azaleas, dogwoods, and shade trees.

On Wednesdays, from June 5 to Aug. 27, Hagley hosts Bike and Hike evenings, 5:00pm-8:00pm.

“We’re also a Blue Star Museum and encourage military personnel and their families to take advan-tage of the program,” said Hagley’s Meg Marcozzi.

About 10 minutes away, Nemours Mansion and Gardens is the former home of Alfred I. du Pont.

The 300-acre estate, which includes a grand Chateau-like mansion, features French formal gar-dens that showcase exquisite settings and sculp-ture.

Winterthur Museum and Gardens is the former home of Henry Francis du Pont, who collected the best of the American decorative arts.

He was also an avid horticulturalist who favored natural-looking designs and striking color combi-nations.

The property is resplendent with meadows, for-ests, and plenty of paths.

Children will love the Enchanted Woods, a 3-acre plot in the gardens, where you might spot a fairy or two.

There’s also a children’s garden at Longwood Gardens, started by Pierre S. du Pont on the small farm he bought in 1906. Spend the day strolling the 1,050-acre property, situated between Chadds Ford and Kennett Square, Pa.

View the Italian Water Garden, Flower Garden Walk, Peirce’s Woods — eight outdoor “rooms” of distinct woodland habitats — and the conserva-tory, home to everything from roses to cacti to sea-sonal blooms.

This month, Longwood will debut the 86-acre Meadow Garden, which includes walking trails and a restored farmhouse.

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Forrest Gump was told by his mother, “Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you’re gonna get.”

Travel is much the same way, and those little surprises are often in the details. Recently, my wife had a conference to attend in Los Angeles. I thought it would be great to go along. We could spend some time seeing the Hollywood sign, the stars on the sidewalk at the Chinese Theatre, palm trees, Beverly Hills, and all the other sights that capture tourists’ imaginations and a little bit of their wallets, too.

We met up one night with a cousin of mine, and on another night with an old college roommate. Each lived within an hour of where we were stay-ing. How much nicer it was to be shown the sights by natives.

I learned a lot from my cousin — bits of useful knowledge such as freeways are free, express-ways are express routes between major destina-tions, highways are elevated, etc. It’s amazing that on the East Coast, those are interchangeable words. How much more sense their literal adher-ence to language makes. It’s a series of small nug-gets of information that are now in the permanent

file. Leave it to the engineer to explain these things to me.

When with my old roommate, we toured through Hollywood and he showed us sculptures in front of the art museum. When we were ready to drive away, I asked him about the tar pits that are in the area, a curiosity leftover from my childhood days of watching The Flintstones. He responded, “There’s one on your left on the next block.”

I thought they would be a drive outside of town, but there they were, right where he said they’d be. I thought they were all near Brea, Calif., and there are a lot of them there. “Brea,” it turns out, is Spanish for “tar.” Next thing I knew, my wife was Googling “tar pits” and we found a ton of informa-tion.

Sure, we saw the sights we hoped to see, and they were in many ways just as expected. But the memories included the unexpected surprises, too. A better understanding of history and geology of the tar pits broadened our horizons. And better yet, we learned that Californians are not just zany people who chant around crystals to fight colds.

They have logic, too. Highways are high. Freeways are free. With travel, you never know what you’re gonna get. But it’s always tasty, just like a box of chocolates.

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From the towering Renaissance Mobile River-view Plaza Hotel, you can see a constant parade of activity along the Mobile River, which flows into the huge bay before emptying into the Gulf of Mexico. It’s a busy scene in Mobile, Ala., filled with loaded barges and tugboats, trains, a modern convention center, and locals and visitors strolling around city parks. And now under construction on the waterfront — and scheduled to open later this year — is GulfQuest: National Maritime Museum of the Gulf of Mexico, an exciting interactive museum that promises to put Mobile back on the world map.

Meanwhile, there’s a lot to be learned at 5 Rivers Delta Center in nearby Spanish Fort. For more than 300 years Mobile has made history. In 1702, Pierre Le Moyne and his younger brother Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Beinville stepped on the marshy shores of what is now Mobile, where Native Americans had fished and hunted for cen-turies. The elder brother continued his journey west and established New Orleans, leaving Jean-Baptiste in charge of the colony that served as the capital of French Louisiana for a time.

In 1703, the French celebrated America’s first Mardi Gras — an annual tradition that is a way of life for many Mobilians, as portrayed in the elabo-rate costumes, robes, and crowns in the Mobile Carnival Museum. (Did you know Mobile’s Mardi Gras is a family event and the favorite throw is a moon pie?)

A portion of Historic Fort Conde (circa 1720) has been rebuilt and operates as part of the His-tory Museum of Mobile. The fort and the museum, housed in the Southern Market/Old City Hall, tell the story of the city’s colorful past as it unfolded under French, British, Spanish, Confederate, and American rule. (The War of 1812 had a tremendous impact on Mobile, as did the Civil War’s Battle of Mobile Bay in 1864, a victory for Union Rear Adm. David Farragut.)

Visitors may also tour the Conde-Charlotte Mu-seum House, Mobile’s first courthouse and jail be-fore it became a private home. Built of handmade bricks and stucco, the oldest part of the house dates to 1822.

Other tour homes of note are the 1860 Italianate Richards DAR House Museum and the 1855 Bragg-Mitchell Mansion in Spring Hill. There are also several homes in the Oakleigh Historic Complex — the 1833 James Roper house, the 1850 Cox-Deasy Cottage, and the 1860s Cook House and Gardens.

While you’re exploring the city, also take note

of its historical churches and cemeteries, and buildings such as the Battle House Hotel.

The Mobile area also has designated trails to explore. Of special interest is the Oyster Trail, marked by larger-than-life oyster shells that are made of porcelain and tell a story. And, the sheer space occupied by Bellingrath Gardens and Home, 65 acres in nearby Theodore, is mind-boggling. On the day of our visit the azaleas were at peak bloom and the museum home, with its fine antiques and furnishings, lived up to its deserved place in A&E’s America’s Castles series. All these places provide a glimpse of the gracious living en-joyed by Mobilians since early times.

Not only do residents live in great houses, they also enjoy great food, as we discovered at several of the city’s acclaimed restaurants. We found the best oysters at Wintzell’s Oyster House, which has been in operation for more than 75 years; the best barbecue at Moe’s Original Bar B Que; the best lunch at Martha Rutledge Catering; and the best gourmet dining at Kitchen on George. (mobilebay.org or 800-5-MOBILE)

Around the Mid-AtlanticHistory comes alive June 21-22 when Calvert

County, Md., remembers its role in the War of 1812 with a “Star Spangled Celebration” at Jeffer-son Patterson Park and Museum in St. Leonard. The event will feature period costumes, troop drills, cannon firing, encampments, music, dancing, games, craft demonstrations, food, and appear-ances by Francis Scott Key and Dolley Madison. The two-day battle between the Chesapeake Bay Flotilla and the British was the largest naval en-gagement in Maryland’s history. Visitors will also have a chance to see War of 1812 artifacts at the park, an archaeology exhibit on the battles at the Archaeological Conservation Laboratory, and an exhibit on the Patuxent River’s role in the war at Calvert Marine Museum. Tall ships Kalmar Nyckel, the Pride of Baltimore II, Sultana, and the Dove will be open for tours on June 21, 9:00-11:00am. His-toric Sunset Cruises will depart from the museum on June 14, July 19, Aug. 9, and Sept. 6. (choosecal-vert.com’1812 or jefpat.org)

Leonardtown in St. Mary’s County, Md., will stage “Raiders & Invaders” events the weekend of June 6-8. Visitors can enjoy “1812: The Tide of War Concert Project,” a collaboration between musician Gary Rue and historian Don Shomette, and “War of 1812 Revisited…Through the Art-ist’s Eyes,” featuring works by regional artists at North End Gallery. In addition, there will be music, storytelling, traditional circus acts, street theater, children’s art activities, period vendors, demonstrations, exhibits, lectures, boats, food, and drinks. A Raiders & Invaders Passport serves as a mini guide to the weekend and provides free admission to a participating passport site, plus a chance to win $1,000. (raidersandinvaders.com)

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The summer travel season swings into high gear this month and this issue of Recreation News is packed with loads of ideas. You’ll find some favor-ite locations like the Canaan Valley and Martins-burg in West Virginia; Lexington, the Shenandoah River, and the Historic Triangle in Virginia; Gettys-burg and the Brandywine Valley in Pennsylvania; and Ocean City and Southern Maryland in the Old Line State.

We also introduce some new destinations to explore. Find out what’s in Virginia’s Bath County aside from the Omni Homestead Resort, and why there’s music and more in Floyd County. Check out Parkersburg, with some of West Virginia’s

most unusual history, and Summersville Lake, with the state’s only lighthouse. We’ll show you concerts on a floating stage in Lock Haven, Pa., and watermen heritage tours on land and water in Maryland.

The Civil War’s sesquicentennial continues with major events that dramatize how the war would slowly start to wind toward its conclusion at Appo-mattox. We’ll look at the siege of Petersburg, how action at Monocacy saved Washington, and the largest all-cavalry engagement of the war.

We’ve done the work with writers scattered across the Mid-Atlantic. They’ve found insider tips to help you get more out of your trip and recom-mendations for local dining and accommodations, too. All you need to do is read on, pick your favor-ites, and gather the family for a road trip!

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railroad tracks mounted on a solid surface with holes that let fats escape but protect from flare-ups. They go on top of your current grill grate and come in sizes to fit rectangular and kettle grills. (grillgrate.com)

u Chilly Jilly may sound a bit silly, but the lounge pants they make are great for travel be-cause they’re made of a wrinkle-resistant micro fiber material that can actually be cut for an exact fit without hemming. The pants come in a compact drawstring pouch that fits into a purse, gym bag, or small suitcase. (chillyjilly.com)

u The Virginia Aquarium in Virginia Beach is continuing military discounts for active duty and retired members of the Armed Forces and their dependents. (virginiaaquarium.com)

u Megabus, famous for offering $1 fares, now offers a reserved seating program on the Wash-ington-Baltimore-New York route. The ten most popular seats can now be reserved in advance to assure couples and family groups can be seated together. (megabus.com)

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Early this summer, another Main Street land-mark will begin life anew as an upscale hostelry. The Robert E. Lee Hotel building, which had served as long-term housing in recent years, will include 39 guest rooms and suites offering Old World charm with a dose of Southern hospitality, according to the hotel’s Sean Taylor.

The historic property will offer amenities like complimentary Wi-Fi, premium cable television, and even a video game console in each room. The hotel will also feature a lounge, coffee shop, and a restaurant with a 100 percent Italian wine list.

Two additional historic properties on Main Street are opening as lodging this summer under the overall name “The Georges,” referencing George Washington and George Marshall. The Alexander Withrow House, dating to 1793, has five rooms and Haywoods, a piano bar serving small plates. The McCampbell Inn, dating to 1809, will open later this summer and offer 13 rooms and a full-service restaurant across the street from the Alexander Withrow House.

“You can feel the history when you walk into these buildings,” said general manager Thomas Burke. “You can even see evidence of when they lowered Main Street in 1850. We want to promote the Lexington experience, including the local food and the wonderful history.”

Off Main StreetThe Hampton Inn Col Alto isn’t on Main Street,

but it combines an 1827 manor house and modern hotel. The centerpiece is the stately Col Alto man-sion, where former Virginia Gov. James McDowell entertained dignitaries. Stay in one of the 10 pe-riod guest rooms, each with its own personality and terry cloth robes, wine service, and in-room breakfast, or choose a modern motel room, per-haps overlooking the pool. Both include HDTV and free high-speed Internet access. Perched on a knoll in Lexington’s historic district, the property is within walking distance of shops, restaurants, galleries, and museums. (hampton-inn.com/hi/lexington-historic)

Outside Lexington, the famous Natural Bridge of Virginia is also beginning a new phase as it transi-tions from private ownership (a status that dates back to Thomas Jefferson’s purchase from the Eng-lish king) to a state park. The Natural Bridge Hotel remains open and offers a number of packages including family activities, river adventures, and military family specials that start at $79 per night and include discounted activities. (naturalbrid-geva.com)

The Victorian Carpenter Gothic-style Humming-bird Inn was built in 1780 and expanded in 1853 and offers five charming guest rooms, a stone fire-place, gardens, and a great view of passing CSX trains from the front veranda. It’s close to Lexing-ton, Staunton, and Hot Springs. (hummingbirdinn.com)

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with mill-themed lodging and fine dining on Saturdays and Sundays. Guests enjoy a candlelight breakfast and the nature paths and nearby wa-terfalls. (osceolamill.com)

Enjoy the attractionsAfter you relax in one of the area’s

historic lodgings, immerse yourself

in the town’s historic attractions. Tour the only home Stonewall Jack-son ever owned. Walk in Robert E. Lee’s footsteps through the chapel he built on the Washington and Lee University campus to his preserved presidential office in the base-ment. Learn about the connections between the Washington and Lee

families whose names the institution bears.

Steps away is the Virginia Military Institute, where cadets parade dur-ing the school year. Even in summer you can visit the VMI Museum, with its recently opened exhibits that are fascinating even if you have no connection to VMI. And across the

parade ground, the George Marshall Museum honors the great American leader who helped guide the Allies through WWII and helped restore Europe following the war.

For more informationLexington/Rockbridge Tourism: lexingtonvirginia.com

Looking for a daytrip or weekend getaway that will make memories? It’s just a short drive away in Lexington, Virginia, voted one of the 20 Small Towns to Visit according to Smithsonian.com. Watch in awe at the July 4th Balloon Rally and fireworks. Wonder at Natural Bridge. Get up close with the animals at Virginia Safari Park. Tube down the river. Get a great day started at www.lexingtonvirginia.com/outdoors.

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Every day at the Na-tional D-Day Memorial in Bedford, Va., is a reminder of one of the greatest feats of “The Greatest Genera-tion.” But the 70th anniver-sary of D-Day on June 6 will be especially meaningful, as it brings survivors of the largest amphibious military invasion in world history together, possibly for their last major reunion.

A 1940s theme will carry throughout the day, in-cluding the afternoon and evening musical events featuring the war-era songs of Frank Sinatra and the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra. The spectacular memorial,

seated on hillside land given for it by the City of Bedford, honors home-town soldiers and all Allied Forces members who lost their lives that fateful day.

The little town of Bedford lost more fighting men per capita that day than any other community. In just 15 minutes, 19 of the 30 “Bed-ford Boys” lost their lives on D-Day. Names of known American and Al-lied Forces casualties are inscribed on a semicircular wall in an English garden with space for those who have yet to be discovered. No one knows the true number of D-Day ca-sualties.

The operation’s survivors, many now in their 90s, will stand shoulder-to-shoulder again at the memorial during recognition ceremonies. Wreaths will be laid, sculpture will be dedicated, veterans will be rec-ognized, an honor guard and military band will perform, and the memorial will host dignitaries from France and the United Kingdom.

Symbolism throughout the memorial

Flanked by the Blue Ridge Moun-tains and the community of Bedford, the National D-Day Memorial is a tableau of symbolism, with realis-tic sculptural depictions starting in England, crossing the channel to France, and then, on to victory. The key elements of the tableau include the statues and busts representing the military leadership. To represent England, the colors of the patriotic patch are planted in an English flower garden. The water and beach feature illustrates the struggles of the Normandy beach landing and at-

tack on German troops; you can get a chilling view of the landing from a landing craft. Other sculptures have fascinating histories related to their creations and dedications.

Around the time Thomas Jefferson built his retreat home, Poplar For-est, in this gorgeous part of Virginia, Bedford was called Liberty.

Insider tip: The Bedford Welcome Center and Poplar Forest sell combi-nation tickets for admission to both the D-Day Memorial and Thomas Jef-ferson’s Poplar Forest.

There’s no want for pleasure options in this area with its five wineries, chocolatiers, creative res-taurants, art galleries, and music haunts.

Less than 15 minutes from Bedford and the D-Day Memorial, the com-manding twin hills of the Peaks of Otter along the Blue Ridge Parkway beckon outdoor lovers to enjoy the bounty of nature.

From the Operation Overlord Victory Arch at the National D-Day Memorial, you can see the Peaks of Otter in the distance. Opposite is the hometown for which the “Bedford Boys” gave their lives.

Bedford D-Day veteran Ray Ste-phens, who died only recently, wrote this verse about losing his twin brother on D-Day at Omaha Beach:

“I’ll never forget that morning, It was, the sixth day of June. I said farewell to brother,Didn’t think it would be so soon.”His poem ends by warning others,

“if you have a twin brother, don’t go to battle with him.”

A sculpture honoring the founder of the National D-Day Memorial, John Robert Slaughter, will be dedicated

on June 6. A 1940s-themed

parade on June 7 will include the red 1925 fire engine usually seen in the Bedford Welcome Center, along with WWII-themed floats, military vehicles, tanks, and antique cars.

Peaks of Otter Lodge offers a D-Day Memorial package that includes lodging, breakfast, tick-ets to the memorial, and a discount at Peaks of Otter Winery.

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It’s the personal touch that makes a visit to Bath County in western Virginia so memorable. From the innkeepers to the shop owners to the restau-rant employees, it’s the warmth of the residents you remember. And visitors who initially may have been unfamiliar with the county except for its celebrated Omni Homestead Resort tend to return again and again for the region’s diverse and sur-prising offerings.

The County of Bath, as it brands itself, lives up its name, as people have traveled there for 250 years to “take the waters” of the natural mineral springs, which are said to be healing. The stress of city life peels away as you drive the winding roads past walls of trees, meadows with grazing cattle, and the spectacular mountain scenery of the Alleghany Highlands. With no stoplights and little traffic, the county — four hours from Washington — is a favorite with motorcyclists and car clubs.

Insider tip: Get directions from the visitor center or at your lodgings since GPS and cellphone ser-vice can be unreliable.

More than half of the 540-square-mile county is protected by national and state forests and The Nature Conservancy. The pristine wilderness is a recreational paradise for camping, hiking, boat-ing, mountain biking, horseback riding, birding, hunting, and fishing (especially for trout, which thrive in the cold waters).

“The early explorers saw endless mountains and we can come here today and have that exact same view,” marvels Marek Smith of The Nature Conservancy, which highly values the area’s bio-diversity and seeks to preserve its forest habitat. Migratory songbirds, deer, foxes, bobcats, rac-coons, wild turkeys, and black bears are among the wildlife that roams freely.

With so much rural landscape and an absence of street lights, you can get reacquainted with the stars. And the scenery and charming venues make

the county a magnet for weddings.The villages of Hot Springs and Warm Springs

(the county seat) are two of the more populated areas in the county of 4,700 residents. They’re the kind of places where the waitress at the Country Café, a local favorite, already knows what the reg-ulars will order when they walk in.

“The nice thing about living in Hot Springs is that when you don’t know what you are doing, someone else does,” is the favorite joke of Jo Windham, who runs Vine Cottage Inn with her hus-band, Jonah. It’s one of several bed-and-breakfasts in the county.

The great outdoorsThe county has major outdoor recreational

draws for all seasons. Lake Moomaw, created by the Gathright Dam, has a marina with boat rentals, a beach, hiking trails, mountain biking, horseback riding, camping, and fishing in the well-stocked waters. Take the narrow gravel road at Richard-son’s Gorge for a particularly scenic drive.

You can camp or stay in an original CCC cabin at Douthat State Park, which has a large lake, boat ramp, fishing pier, beach, amphitheater, and wild-life interpretation center.

The Nature Conservancy’s 9,000-acre Warm Springs Mountain Preserve is its largest preserve in Virginia. You can get a beautiful view from the Dan Ingalls Overlook.

The Omni Homestead Resort and several bed-and-breakfasts offer numerous recreational activi-ties, and outfitters and fishing guides are available in the county to support outdoor recreation with gear and knowledge. Visitor centers in Hot Springs and near The Jefferson Pools can help with itineraries for scenic drives.


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There’s exciting news for cruise fans wanting to embark from Baltimore!

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Crystals’s Paul Girouard said, “We developed this voyage in response to travelers’ and agents’ increasing demand for Mid-Atlantic embarkations. Baltimore has been so welcoming to us each time we’ve visited. We’re excited to expand our offer-ings there for those who want to minimize air travel and start their Crystal experiences as quickly as possible.”

Crystal Cruise line is synonymous with luxury. The Crystal Serenity recently underwent a $17 mil-lion redesign that reflects a Southern California-inspired ambience that is casual yet cultured and sophisticated yet modern. Details like real teak decking, plush sofas and arm chairs, and living walls of greenery, including fresh herbs for the chefs, surround passengers. Redesigned and re-decorated indoor and outdoor seating and dining areas now include more tete-a-tete tables for cou-ples. Richly detailed, the ship’s design is progres-sive and includes open kitchens and open seating. The Trident Grill has seating under a retractable roof, allowing the panorama of the day or romantic night sky to be your ceiling.

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Your days at sea can be as active or as relaxing as you wish. Our days at sea usually include a little of both. We consider a workout a “must-do” to burn those impossible-to-resist extra calories. Others may prefer to exercise by enjoying the view during a “Walk-on-Wa-ter” along the 360-de-gree Promenade Deck. You can also choose from a wide range of activities, including Pilates, yoga, tai chi, cy-cling classes, paddle tennis on full-sized courts, and PGA golf in-struction.

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With rides geared toward kids of all ages, a visit to Dutch Wonderland, outside Lancaster, Pa., can be a fun adventure for the whole family.

For many children, Dutch Wonderland is their first introduction to an amusement park, as either a family daytrip or a full weekend getaway. The 48-acre park has more than 35 rides, a water play

area, and live shows to experience throughout the day.

The “exciting” new addition this year is Explo-ration Island, which opens Memorial Day Week-end, May 24-26. According to the park’s Ashlee Hurley, it will feature more than 20 life-like di-nosaurs, a fossil dig site, gondola cruise and the newly relocated and lengthened turnpike ride.

Hurley recommends that first-time visitors look at the attractions and shows page online to see what rides their children can experience, based on age and height.

Insider tip: Summertime visitors should pack swimsuits and swim diapers, so they can experi-ence Duke’s Lagoon water play area.

“This water zone is perfect for families with little ones, as there is no standing water. Geysers, bub-blers, water slides and other water features prom-ise hours of entertainment for little ones while adults relax in nearby chairs. If you want to ensure that your family has a shady spot, consider renting one of their family cabanas for the day,” Hurley said.

Another recommendation is to try to experience the live entertainment shows during your visit, which can be a nice break from the excitement of going on the rides. Hurley suggests making time for one of the dive shows.

A weekday visit can avoid the crowds. The best deal on admission is either a two-day flex ticket (visit any two days of the summer season; they do not have to be consecutive days) or a Dutch Won-derland Season Pass. Purchasing a souvenir cup provides the best deal on drinks with unlimited 99-cent refills during the 2014 summer season.

There are lots of lodging options in the area. Visit padutchcountry.com for a full listing with packages and deals.

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Free in D.C.Learn about the music, dance, and culture of

China and Kenya at the Smithsonian Folklife Fes-tival, June 24-29 and July 2-6 on the National Mall ... Tour a number of “off-the-mall” museums, such as the Woodrow Wilson House, Dumbarton House, and the Phillips Collection, during the Dupont Kalorama Museum Walk Weekend the first full weekend in June (dkmuseums.com) . . . Enjoy the sounds of military band concerts on weekday eve-nings through the summer on the West Front steps of the U.S. Capitol (aoc.gov).

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family eventImagination Bethesda is a free children’s street

festival celebrating children in the arts. This year’s event is being held June 7, 10:00am-3:00pm, in downtown Bethesda, Md. The festivities feature a full day of music and dance performances, as well as a wide variety of hands-on arts and crafts activi-ties and jugglers, balloonists, and face painters. (bethesda.org)

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A sparkling cultural jewel in the small county is the Garth Newel Music Center, entering its 41st season. Christopher Williams oversees a sched-ule of 60 chamber music concerts a year, held inside the converted barn of an estate. The center features a quartet of resident musicians, gourmet meals, and special events. The center will change it up with a Virginia Blues & Jazz Festival sched-uled for June 13-15.

From alpacas and antiques to music and minerals

Not all of the area’s wildlife roams freely. You can visit with 96 adorable fuzzy-haired alpacas — all have names and different personalities — at the Diamond Triple C Ranch and buy items made from alpaca wool and other exotic yarns

The Warm Springs Art District includes the Warm Springs Gallery and the Gallery at Seven Oaks which offer fine art and crafts. Artisans such as Alix and Bryan McGraw create unique jewelry from fine gemstones at McGraw Minerals (see the “gem bear” in the basement), while Ron Shifflett sells his custom furniture at Warm Springs Moun-tain Woodworks. In Millboro, P. Matthew Cauley makes rustic furnishings from salvaged wood at Skunk & Owl Designs and Cheryl Thompson fash-ions one-of-a-kind designs at Tender Heart Quilts.

There’s no mall in the county, but specialty shops in unique locations include Old Ashwood School Antiques in a 1908 schoolhouse; Spring-house Antiques in a former country store; and Ashwood Station, which sells collectibles in a for-mer service station. The Warm Springs Market has homegrown and Made in Virginia items.

The Bath County Historical Society in Warm Springs has a small museum with local and military items and a research library for genealogists.

After a day of activities, Linda Wesley’s sig-nature hot stone massages at Warm Spirit Spa in Warm Springs puts you in a mellow state. After all, it’s the personal touch you remember about the County of Bath.

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Dog Rhythm & Vine Festivals are planned for July 5, featuring national recording artist Paul Thorn; Aug. 9, with two groups, Railroad Earth and The Mastersons; and Sept. 13, with two other groups, Mountain Heart and The Greencards. In addition, there’s free music in the courtyard every Sunday afternoon, June through October. (thedogs.com)

Special PackagesKids 12 and under stay, play, and eat free when

accompanied by an adult paying a special rate of $39 per person, per night (double occupancy) at Williamsburg Woodlands. Couples Getaway Pack-ages at the Williamsburg Lodge are $139 per per-son, per day (double occupancy). Both packages begin June 13 and end Aug. 28. Also available through Aug. 28 are the Revolutionary War Expe-rience, America’s Historic Triangle, and Bounce Packages. (colonialwilliamsburg.com)

New York’s Park Central Hotel is offering a His-tory Hunters’ special package in partnership with the New York Historical Society Museum and Li-brary, the city’s oldest museum and the country’s second oldest museum. The museum is the reposi-

tory of more than 40,000 artifacts, but the hotel has a significant historical collection, too, featured in a special brochure. The hotel owns a life mask of John James Audubon; a wisteria table lamp by Tiffany Studios; a footlocker that belonged to Col. William H. Paine, a Union officer during the Civil War; Guiseppe Guidicini’s George Washington Taking the Oath, and other treasures. Packages start at $239 and include a ticket to the museum, a breakfast voucher, and a signature “historical” cocktail. (parkcentralny.com/specials)

To commemorate its 50th year, SeaWorld Parks and Entertainment, owner of 11 U.S. parks, is stag-ing an 18-month celebration with new interac-tive experiences, shows, pathway performances, up-close encounters with animals, and SeaWorld “Surprise Squad” prizes. The Busch Gardens parks in Tampa, Fla., and Williamsburg, Va., offer a mix of new extreme thrill rides, unique enter-tainment, and events, while SeaWorld’s Aquatica waterparks feature new attractions in Orlando, San Antonio, and San Diego. All three SeaWorld Parks are showing “Shamu’s Celebration: Light Up the Night,” a new nighttime show. (seaworld.com/cel-ebration).

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June is the ideal time to visit Chesapeake, Va., because there’s something for everyone to enjoy.

For the outdoor enthusiast and nature lover, there is the KayaXpedition; for those seeking the unexpected, there’s a real live rodeo and the Anime Mid-Atlantic Festival; and, for the romantic or the culturally inclined, there’s Shakespeare in the Grove.

Water runs through Chesapeake, bringing yachts up the Intracoastal Waterway and providing lots of fun for paddlers, too. Rich in maritime heri-tage, the city’s historic waterways draw kayakers, paddle boarders, and canoeists of all skill levels to enjoy the unique combination of nature and history that Chesapeake offers. The KayaXpedition, June 21-22, celebrates that tradition. Events take place throughout the weekend at Great Bridge Lock Park, Oak Grove Lake Park, the Hyatt Greenbrier, and Northwest River Parks.

A race kicks off the lively festival at Great Bridge Lock Park to support active service mem-bers and veterans. Over at Oak Grove Lake Park, you can learn techniques for paddling and get hands-on skills training for different types of boat-ing. In the evening, after a day of exercise, take in the REEL Paddling Film Festival and be inspired to explore rivers, lakes, and oceans. Throughout the day on Sunday, courses are available for novices as well as those seeking advanced techniques. (kayaxpedition.com)

If you prefer cowboy boots to canoes, check out

the Khedive Annual Rodeo, June 13-14. The Shrine hosts this annual professional championship rodeo sanctioned by the Southern Rodeo Association. Watch calf roping, bucking horses, barrel rac-ing, bull riding, and the rodeo clowns. There are plenty of food and beverages, and children have a special play area. Tickets are $15 for adults and $10 for children ages 5-12. Purchase them at the Khedive Shrine Center. (visitchesapeake.com/event)

Anime Mid-Atlantic, June 13-15 at the Chesa-peake Conference Center, is an annual Japanese animation and culture convention that includes guest speakers, cultural events, music, and concerts. (animemi-datlantic.com)

Take in the work of the Bard for free at Shakespeare in the Grove, June 25-29, at the Tidewater Community College Chesapeake campus’ outdoor stage. This year, enjoy The Tempest. Bring your blankets, folding chairs, picnic basket, and bev-erages. If you don’t want

to bring your own food and drink, concessions are available. (tcc.edu)

With 22 miles of fresh and salt waterways, the Great Dismal Swamp, bird watching, and wildlife along the Northwest River Park and Campground, as well as family-friendly events and festivals throughout the year, Chesapeake is full of choices.

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Nowhere in the Old Dominion is spring’s re-newal more poignantly seen and felt than in Virginia’s Historic Triangle and neighboring Chip-pokes Plantation State Park. Renewal surfaces not only in the 90-plus acres of gardens and green spaces at Colonial Williamsburg, but also at the nearby, not-to-be-missed historic sites, Jamestown Settlement and Yorktown Victory Center.

The events of spring 1610, in fact, literally saved the first permanent English colonists in the Ameri-cas, who had arrived at Jamestown three springs prior on May 13, 1607. You can board the Susan Constant, Godspeed and Discovery — the three ships at Jamestown Settlement’s wharf — and learn from 17th-century seamen-interpreters the details of the arduous Atlantic Ocean journey from Eng-land.

A further chapter in the story — which you learn at indoor as well as outdoor exhibits at the living-history museum — involves the starving time of winter 1609-1610, after which colonists prepared to abandon their settlement. This action followed the deaths of many of their number from starvation and disease, as well as a period of warfare with the Powhatan Indians.

Literally at the last minute, when settlers were starting to sail back to England in the spring of 1610, a fresh group of English settlers arrived in search of wealth. They brought with them supplies and a second, stronger charter issued by King James I. This led the way to a renewed spirit and work ethic at the settlement, including the begin-ning of a number of small industries.

You experience these and other diverse 17th-century themes at Jamestown Settlement through daily hands-on activities. This month, explore how clothing from leather to linen was made in “Fash-

ion in Colonial Virginia.” A combination ticket ($20.50 adults, $10.25 ages 6-12) provides admis-sion to the Settlement and to the Yorktown Victory Center, located in Yorktown, at the other end of the Colonial Parkway.

Next to the battlefield where allied American and French forces won the decisive battle of the American Revolution in 1781, you visit the Yor-ktown Victory Center. It chronicles the entire Revolutionary period, from colonial unrest to the formation of the new nation, also through indoor as

well as outdoor exhibits. But it’s not all history — grab the kids, blankets,

chairs, and your dancing shoes for “Shagging on the Riverwalk,” Yorktown’s free musical event cel-ebrating “the shag” dance along the York River on Thursday evenings in June and July. On July 4-6, the Victory Center’s galleries celebrate the holi-day with an exhibit of a rare broadside printing of the Declaration of Independence.

Chippokes camping and festivities

If your idea of celebrating personal indepen-dence is experiencing summer’s great outdoors, Chippokes Plantation State Park along the James River’s south side is the perfect place. The sprawl-ing 1,945-acre park environment, which offers myriad recreational and historical activities, com-prises one of the nation’s oldest working farms, dating to 1617.

You’ll see green soybean fields lilt in the breeze at this time of year. If you have a keen eye for shark’s teeth, you might find one after a rain washes sand down from the cliff’s layers of shells above the beach, at the park’s edge. Directly across the river from the plantation lies Jamestown Island, settled a decade prior to the establishment of Chippokes.

Spend the night in one of four unique cabins, all with central air, in the middle of a cornfield, or at a campsite ($30-$33 nightly).

Ride your horse around the edges of fields on horse trails established in 2000 by the Friends of Chippokes Plantation.

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The Historic James-towne site — owned and operated through a public-private partner-ship between Preserva-tion Virginia and the National Park Service — is situated adjacent to state-operated James-town Settlement and offers activities and demonstrations such as glassblowing. A visit to the National Park Service-operated historic Yorktown Battlefield is a must-see after visit-ing the state-operated Victory Center. The two NPS sites are open free on Aug. 25, which is the National Park Service’s birthday. (nps.gov/jame, nps.gov/yonb)

The Jamestown-Surry Ferry gets you from the Historic Triangle to Surry County, home of Chippokes State Park.

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mansion and elsewhere on site, an Olympic-sized pool, two play-grounds, visitor center (don’t miss the 1941 Packard automobile), gift shop, and picnicking, biking, and hiking.

Be sure to leave time to see the antique farm equipment and exhibits at the Farm and Forestry Museum. Surry County is renowned for cur-ing hams, growing peanuts, and harvesting lumber, most notably Virginia pines.

Not surprisingly, the family-friendly Pork, Pine, and Peanut Festi-

val on Chippokes’ grounds the third full weekend of July (July 19- 20) is in its 39th year as the park’s biggest annual event ($5 per person, chil-dren 12 and under are free).

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The fun begins immediately. After pushing off from the banks of the Shenan-

doah River, it’s time to paddle hard. Steer the canoe into the flow of the Compton Rapids. The swift whitewater bounces the boat like a bucking bronco. The Class II rapid is unusual on the gener-ally placid Shenandoah. Another dip in the rapids and water splashes up on both sides knocking the canoe slightly off course. Keep paddling to stay straight as the last of the small rapid spits the boat up and out into a gorgeous stretch of flat, calm water. Up ahead a bald eagle soars above a shear, rocky cliff, with trees sprouting from the top of the cliff face.

The four-hour-long Seekfords Landing canoe excursion is one of the most popular trips at the

Downriver Canoe Company, between Front Royal and Luray, Va. After the very exciting beginning, most of the rest of the 12-mile journey is serene. Great blue herons wade along the river’s edge in shallow waters, alighting to the sky as the canoe approaches.

Cutting deep into the valley along the Massanut-ten Ridge, the river affords stunning views of the verdant green forested mountains the entire trip. Partway down the waterway, a sharp 18-inch drop off, called the Sudden Ledge, seems to come out of nowhere for a small spike of adrenaline.

All around is a birder’s paradise. There are os-prey, ducks, geese, woodpeckers, hawks, Ameri-can kestrels and Baltimore orioles. River otters can be spotted playing in the water. And, the nearby

woods bring deer, mink, and, as Down River Canoe owner John Gibson notes, the occasional black bear and even a mountain lion.

The Shenandoah twists like a slow snake to-wards the take out point at Downriver’s shop. On the way, there is an opportunity to enter the half-mile-long Old Mill Race, the man-made cut of a long gone mill. The water runs fast through the narrow channel for another shot of speed.

Most of the trips at Downriver work the same. All are unguided. Paddlers meet at the shop and are shuttled upriver to a put-in spot to paddle the canoe, raft, or kayak back to the shop. Canoe rent-als are recommended for beginners. Experienced boaters may wish to rent a kayak. And the rafts work best when water levels are high.

As much as 40 per-cent of the land on the west bank of the river is national forest so there are plenty of spots to beach the boats for a picnic break. The com-pany also features a variety of longer and shorter trips from three-mile, one-hour paddles to two-day trips and custom voyages last-ing three or more days. The full-day Masanutten Hike and Float is another favorite and includes a 12-mile hike followed by 12 miles on the river. Don’t worry — you don’t have to portage the boats. After you hike up to and along the moun-tain ridge from the shop, you descend back down to the put-in. Then it’s only a simple cell phone call to have the boats delivered.

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And if you don’t feel like paddling, go tubing. Tubing trips run about three hours and are generally on stretches of the river devoid of other boat traf-fic, making for a lazy day of sun and fun drifting with the current. Rent an extra tube to haul a loaded cooler. The float tubes feature cup holders to stow your favorite beverages.

Two other outfitters offer trips along this part of the river. Front Royal Out-doors features river trips, and has added an expanded line of rental fish-ing kayaks to its canoe, kayak, raft, and tube fleet. Also new for the season are stand-up paddleboards. And, with Front Royal, you can choose from a vacation home, cottage, or cabin for lodging, all on a bluff overlooking the South Fork of the Shenandoah River. Shenandoah River Outfitters also provides trips, as well as lodging with three sets of log cabins at varying degrees of isolation, plus the Bella Vista Mountain Cottage. For campers, there’s a 25-site wooded campground.

Allstar Lodging manages about 100 privately owned cabins and luxury vaca-tion home rentals throughout the area and can arrange activities including river trips for guests.

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After one day in Floyd, I’m hooked. Here’s a place that fills every hour — and countless shop-ping bags — with delights.

“The bluegrass is fine. The danc-

ing is sheer pleasure. The food is good. The shopping is unusual — get there early!” said Judy Thompson, a Frederick, Md., resident whose fam-ily visits as often as possible.

The little Virginia Blue Ridge town has earned a huge reputa-tion for music. Floyd Country Store is beloved for its $5 Friday Night Jamboree — where I flat-footed with dozens of dancers as bluegrass and old-time bands played — and free weekend concerts, open mics, and jam sessions. There’s plenty more in this Crooked Road Heritage Music Trail town, with performers filling restaurants, parks, and streets with song. Recently, Wildwood Farms and General Store added free week-end concerts to its calendar, which also includes monthly antique car “Cruise-Ins.” This eclectic spirit springs eternal in Floyd.

You can sample the equally di-verse art scene along the Floyd Artisan Trail on June 13-15, where you’ll find dozens of open studios, demonstrations, and parties. Agricul-tural producers and musicians also participate in the event. Trail maps, available around town, list contact information so you can arrange stu-dio visits whenever you are in the area.

Every day, evidence of Floyd’s

deep and diverse talent pool fills galleries, community-proud restau-rants, and the Jacksonville Center for the Arts. Located just beyond down-town, the center’s rotating exhibits showcase established and emerging artists.

At Troika, located downtown in The Station artisan center, I admired ceramics by potters of the 16 Hands collective, textile and handmade paper marvels, and handcrafted lamps. Overseeing the shop that afternoon was jewelry artist Anne Armistead. “Something about Floyd attracts people from all walks of life. It’s magical,” said Armistead.

Fellow shopper and glass artist Elizabeth Mears said that after visit-ing from Fairfax, Va., with her hus-band, Michael, a string-instrument crafter, the couple wanted to move here. Many Floyd residents left big cities to live in town or in the coun-tryside. No wonder so many vaca-tioners told me they return every year.

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The Longwood Wine and Jazz Festival on June 7 is an annual event that combines the smooth notes of jazz with fine wine in an exceptionally beautiful setting.

Mt. Cuba Center was the vision of Pamela Cun-ningham Copeland, who once lived in the mansion with husband Lammot du Pont Copeland.

The center studies, preserves, and educates others about plants from the Piedmont, which runs from New Jersey to Alabama. There are more than 1,900 plant species, varieties, and cultivars on the 650-acre property. This year, the center is offering a season pass as well as garden tours.

Art and the gardenA garden is often a work of art, and that’s cer-

tainly true on the grounds of the Brandywine River Museum in Chadds Ford, Pa., which celebrates the works of N.C., Andrew, and Jamie Wyeth.

The museum, part of the Brandywine Conser-vancy and Museum of Art, is surrounded by pre-served land, part of the Brandywine Conservan-cy’s 59,000 acres.

“You can see the landscape that inspired three generations of the Wyeth family, as well as their art and the studios of N.C. Wyeth and An-drew Wyeth,” says the museum’s Hillary Hol-land.

Tours of the studio and the nearby Kuerner Farm run all summer. From June 7 to Aug. 10, the museum will feature the exhibit “Lure of the Brandywine: A Story of Land Conservation and Artistic Inspiration.”

Artistic expression is also part of Chanti-cleer, once the estate of Adolph Rosengarten. Opened as a public gar-den in 1993, Chanticleer has a mile-long path that winds through the 35

acres and the “pleasure gardens,” which feature native and exotic plants. Don’t miss the stone “fur-niture,” Asian woods, and Ruin and Gravel Garden.

For the love of treesBy definition, an arboretum is a collection of

trees. Yet most also include botanical gardens. Tyler Arboretum’s 650 acres in Media, Pa., for

instance, showcase rare plants, ancient trees, and native plants.

Tyler has a 1,400-square-foot butterfly house filled with graceful inhabitants, 17 miles of hiking trails, and a meadow maze. Kids and adults will both enjoy the eclectic collection of tree houses.

Jenkins Arboretum and Garden, tucked in a res-idential area in Devon, Pa., is a horticultural oasis with rhododen-drons and azalea from around the world. It’s a short drive from Valley Forge National Military Park.

Welkinweir, the Ro-debaugh family’s former 197-acre estate in Pott-

stown, Pa., has a 55-acre arboretum, meadows, a pond, and stream.

Welkinweir’s website has a quote from Paul Licht, garden director of University of California Berkley Botanical Garden, which applies to any of Brandywine Valley’s horticultural gems: “A picture may be worth a thousand words, but seeing a liv-ing plant is worth far more.”

Nevertheless, don’t forget your camera and check the Brandywine Valley website for details on gardens, events, dining, and accommodations.

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veloped Floyd County sustainability, cultural, and tourism initiatives. There are so many wonderful small businesses, artists, farmers, musicians, and others with a passion for creative expression and quality that has been passed down for generations. Where else can you find live music from old-time and bluegrass to conga drums, psychedelic, and electronica? Or, so many craftspeople, from quil-ters and blacksmiths to food artisans and visionary folk artists?

Culinary creativity, tooFloyd’s creativity shines in its food, too. There’s

delectable tapas, salads, and drinks at Oddfel-las Cantina and brick-oven pizzas and craft beer at Dogtown Roadhouse. Zesty Italian fare and new breakfast items are featured at Mickey G’s, while comfort food — and pie — are on the menu at Floyd Country Store’s Jingle Tap Cafe and his-toric Pine Tavern. And, local, roasted-on-site Red Rooster coffee, along with fresh-baked treats, can

be found at Black Water Loft, a quirky, arty space that overlooks the bustling downtown.

Newcomers include the Artist’s Table, with its breezy terrace atop Harvest Moon gourmet mar-ket. Chef Richard Perry opened two eateries at the Cross Creek Complex: Fat Spoon Cafe, which gives a southern twist to farm-to-table ingredients, and Longfin Grill, a mobile kitchen serving Asian and Caribbean barbecue street food.

Floyd is rich in antiques, home accents, lov-able gifts, and clothing. Green Label Organic just opened a retail outlet for its fair-trade organic cot-ton clothing, conscious gifts, and crafts, while Win-terSun sells hand-painted fair-trade clothing. The Hotel Floyd offers accommodations in a modern property built with the latest green technology and sustainable materials. Guests are right in the en-joyable downtown area with all its music and fun.

Drive a few minutes south of town along the Blue Ridge Parkway to Chateau Morrisette. Its world-class winery and tasting room reside in one of

America’s largest salvaged-timber buildings; its fine restaurant next door boasts a lovely new ter-race overlooking the mountains. Winery events include free Sunday Sounds concerts through Oc-tober.

Other area don’t-miss events include Virginia’s Blue Ridge Music Festival, a classical showcase held June 7-8; Chantilly Farm’s weekend concert, film, and auto events; and FloydFest’s July 23-27 extravaganza of music spanning alternative to Ap-palachian to African. Saturday mornings through October, Floyd’s Farmers Market offers fresh pro-duce, herbs, flowers, and live music at the Com-munity Pavilion, which on Friday evenings houses the Floyd Artisan Market.

For more informationFloyd Co. Tourism: floydcova.org/visitors

Floyd Artisan Trail: floydartisantrail.org

Hotel Floyd: hotelfloyd.com


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Situated along the unspoiled coast of the Chesa-peake Bay on Virginia’s Eastern Shore, Cape Charles is the ideal spot for enjoying a day on the beach, shopping and dining in the downtown area, and spending the night at one of the inviting and diverse accommodations. Folks can easily spend a long weekend here, touring the town on a rented street-legal golf cart and taking leisurely strolls along Kings Creek Marina. If that weren’t enough to draw visitors to this charming coastal town, Cape Charles is hosting some spectacular events this summer.

June is the perfect time to be near the water, and more than 7,000 visitors come to town to see the tall ships at Cape Charles, June 14–15. Guests will have a chance to explore the decks and meet

costumed crew members of impressive tall ships: the Kalmar Nyckel, the official tall ship of Delaware, and the Lynx, a 122-foot interpretation of the Amer-ican privateer built in 1812. Along with deck tours, guests will be able to book three-hour excursions on the Chesapeake Bay on these two ships on June 12–13, before the festival. During festival dates, sunset tours will be available.

Another ship, the schooner Serenity from York-town, will offer Captain Mayhem’s Pirate Adven-ture Sails for children on Saturday and Sunday. Meanwhile, those on land can enjoy delectable food and beverages, arts, crafts, and collectibles, and live music and entertainment.

Joan Prescott, who promotes the event, says it is most enjoyable because it’s held in a small town,

allowing people to have an intimate experience with the ships — and the fact that people can get out on the bay. “It’s an old-fashioned, family-friendly experience,” she says.

The Clam Slam held Aug. 1–3 at Cape Charles is a great way to enjoy the bounty of local seafood. This grow-ing event celebrates the Eastern Shore as one of the largest producers of clams in the United States. Attendees can enjoy events throughout the week-end, including a steamed clam-eating contest, the annual Shriners parade, a corn hole tournament, Smith Island skiff races, a crab pot cork race and the fourth running of the Cape Charles Boat Docking Contest. Each day of the event features live music, arts and craft vendors, and an assortment of festival food. On Saturday, rides will be avail-able, as well as fireworks in the eve-ning.

Two weeks for the artsCatch some spectacular performances during

Harbor for the Arts, happening Aug. 1–17. The event features two weeks of free, live entertain-ment in public spaces. Performances will be hap-pening daily, and the weekends will be especially packed with fun. Last year’s Harbor for the Arts showcased 35 events in just 14 days including street parties, dramatic pieces, folk music, plein air painting, and other activities throughout town. “It was enormously successful,” says Mary Ann Roehm, who promotes the event.

This year, each day of the two weeks will carry a different theme. Some of these are film night, cabaret night, jazz night, and local talent night with a comedy workshop and event called “I Played the Palace at The Historic Palace Theater.” Perfor-mances to look forward to include a gypsy band called Le Hotclub; jazz singer L’Tanya Mari; An-drew McKnight and Beyond Boarders; the United States Air Force Jazz Band; and local flutist, guitar-ist, vocalist, and bandleader Jim Newsom. Another act worth checking out is John Hardy, a single actor playing 16 roles on a simple set of just two chairs, a table, and two benches.

Along with performances, the event will bring a variety of workshops designed to integrate with one another and build a community of artists who liven the town. The core program is Experimen-tal Film Virginia, focusing on the intersection of sound, movement, and location on the screen, and it’s ideal for sound designers, choreographers, directors, filmmakers, visual artists, dancers, musi-cians, and composers.

This second annual event is made possible by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts pre-sented to Arts Enter Cape Charles in partnership with the Town of Cape Charles, Citizens for Central Park, and the Cape Charles Business Association.

While you’re visiting this summer, book a tee time at Bay Creek Golf Club, featuring Jack Nick-laus and Arnold Palmer signature courses running along the bay and Old Plantation Creek, and rich with beauty and challenge. Plan to stay the night at Bay Creek, or take advantage of the town’s other lovely accommodation options, from the welcom-ing bed and breakfasts to the nearby Sunset Beach Inn and Grille, boasting an enjoyable pool area, bicycles for exploring nearby nature trails, entic-ing food from Sunset Grille (with free live week-end and holiday entertainment), and of course, some of the best sunsets on the Eastern Shore. Book the Spring Early Bird Special through June 30 to receive 15 percent off of a two nights’ stay or 20 percent off of a three nights’ stay.

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There’s something about the fast pace and rhythms of old-time Appalachian music that is joyful and uplifting. The sounds stay with you long after a trip to some of West Virginia’s clas-sic music venues.

At the Pocahontas County Opera House in Marlinton, prominent fiddler Jake Krack and the band Juanita Fireball and the Continental Drifters kept a foot-tapping audience enthralled recently.

The renovated opera house, whose heyday was just before WWI, hosts more than a dozen shows a year featuring traditional music and bluegrass.

The award-winning Krack, 29, who began to learn fiddle playing from his elders at age 5, works to pass on the cultural legacy of old-time music to the next generation through the Allegh-eny Echoes summer music workshops, giving instruction in fiddle, guitar, banjo, mandolin, singing, and creative writing.

The Pocahontas County Opera House is the heart of the Mountain Music Trail, which spans five counties near the scenic Highway 219 corri-dor in eastern West Virginia, including Pocahon-tas, Monroe, Greenbrier, Randolph, and Tucker counties. The trail has many venues and festivals promoting the music, dance, and folkways of the Allegheny Mountain region. Among them is Au-gusta Heritage Center at Davis & Elkins College, which also has summer workshops and a festival coming up Aug. 9-11.

A “spirits” trailBesides the music trail, West Virginia Tourism

also is developing a “spirits” trail, where you can tour facilities and sample libations at places like Smooth Ambler Spirits, a small craft distill-ery in Greenbrier County. The business makes bourbon whiskey, vodka, and gin using local ingredients.

“Drinking whiskey is like tasting history,” says the distillery’s John Little. “It brings you back to a time when things were different.”

You can sip wine on a rocking chair around the fireplace at Lambert’s Winery in Lewis County. The family-owned winery, built of na-tive stone, holds popular Wednesday wine-and-pizza nights, and hosts many weddings on its covered patio.

Heston Farm Winery and Pinchgut Distillery in Marion County, where the wines include a buckwheat flavor, has a restaurant, music on Saturday nights, and occasional outdoor con-certs. Jade, the winery’s unofficial “greeter,” was a bomb-sniffing dog in Iraq.

Mountain State Brewing Co. has a brewpub and restaurant in Morgantown, where you can choose among a variety of beers. If you want to

stretch the meaning of “spirits,” storyteller Jason Burns gives free tours at West Virginia Univer-sity, also in Morgantown, weaving in ghostly tales with campus history.

The hometown of comedian Don Knotts, Morgantown also has the 1924 Metropolitan Theatre, which hosted stars like Bob Hope and Bing Crosby in its vaudeville heyday. Today it is home to musical productions by West Virginia Public Theatre.

There’s also great rock climbing at Coopers Rock State Forest. Bands of rock cliffs line the Cheat River Gorge and provide numerous over-looks.

The main overlook furnishes a panorama of the gorge and distant horizons. A maze of enor-mous boulders and cliffs fascinates hikers, and the trails are especially lovely in June when the rhododendron and mountain laurel are in bloom.

The Morgantown area also has plenty of whitewater to challenge rafters on the Cheat River.

The July 4th weekend brings a USA Women’s Softball team exhibition game on July 3, followed by free Colt Ford concerts on July 4 at 6:30pm and 8:30pm at Triple S Harley-Davidson. Fireworks celebrate the holiday after the second concert.

Insider tip: You can take advantage of special room rates with the MOREgantown JoyRides promotion by visiting moreadventuredeals.com. You’ll also have a chance to win a free weekend.

The MountainFest Motorcycle Rally rolls into the Morgantown area July 23-27 with lots of rides, big name musical entertainment, thrill shows, ride-ins, and plenty of other activities.


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From pepperoni rolls to rail adventures

Marion County, known for its pepperoni rolls and native daughter, gymnast Mary Lou Retton, is home to Prickett’s Fort State Park. Originally built in 1774 as a refuge fort on the frontier of Virginia, it was reconstructed in 1976, and today, costumed interpreters recreate 18th-cen-tury lifestyles and demonstrate colonial crafts. Hiking, birding, and adventurous river boating take advantage of the area’s mountains and wa-terways.

Lewis County is home to Appalachian Glass in Weston, the last survivor of 30 glass factories that used to be in the area. You can see a glass-blowing demonstration and visit the gift shop which sells ornaments, animals, and friendship balls. The area is also the site of Confederate Gen. “Stonewall” Jackson’s boyhood home and the Stonewall Jackson Lake and State Park, where the resort features Adirondack-style lodges, a spa, and a marina.

Insider tip: For an unusual tour, try the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in Weston. The giant structure has a fascinating history and plenty of paranormal activity.

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Martinsburg’s museums offer a variety of experiences

Martinsburg, W.Va., may not be as big as nearby Baltimore, Md., and Washington, D.C., but it offers eight museums that provide visitors with significantly different experiences.

Six of the eight museums are now open on weekends

“A town this size is very fortunate to have this many museums, and now most of our museums are open the same hours on the weekend. We have a lot of history that people have not been able to enjoy because the museums were open at different hours or not at all [on the weekend],” said Laura Gassler, who promotes the area.

The Martinsburg-Berkeley County Conven-tion and Visitors Bureau contributed money so the museums could offer stipends to volunteers allowing the museums to remain open week-ends from 11:00am-4:00pm, May to October.

Martinsburg’s museums include Morgan Cabin, west of town near Bunker Hill, built by the first English settler in West Virginia, Morgan

Morgan. Morgan built the cabin in the 1700s. His son, Zackquill Morgan, built his own home

across the street. (Zackquill founded Morgan-town, the home of West Virginia University.) Morgan Cabin was rebuilt in 1976 using many of the original logs.

The Adam Stephen House, home of the founder of Martinsburg, has the Triple Brick Museum and tunnels on the same property. The house is a restored limestone building dating to 1780.

Civil War museumsPerhaps the most imposing of the museums is

the B&O Roundhouse. The roundhouse changed hands more than 30 times during the Civil War. In an 1861 raid, Confederate Gen. Stonewall Jackson’s troops destroyed 42 locomotives, 386 train cars, 36 miles of track, and 17 bridges. The

continued on page 38Morgan Cabin was built in the 1700s by the first English settler in West Virginia.

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Wait a minute ... West Virginia has a light-house? West Virginia? For all you doubters, climb the 122 steps to the top of the Summers-ville Lake Lighthouse — not surprisingly the only functional lighthouse in the state — and gaze out at your rock climbing, scuba diving, kayaking, jet skiing, whitewater rafting, zip-lining playground.

“The lighthouse is the coolest treehouse you’ll ever play in,” said Steve Keblesh, light-house keeper. And it’s not for guiding boats, he added, “it’s an aeronautical aid to navigation for airplanes that come in across the lake.”

You can even stay in the shadow of the light-house at the campground or in cabins, or opt for nearby hotels that range from reasonable to ritzy. At the center of it all: the Summersville Lake, the largest clearwater lake in the state.

But it’s not all about the lake, as Marianne Taylor, who promotes the area, makes plain when she eloquently rattles off an entire five-

day itinerary for you, almost without pausing for breath: “You can stay a day at the lake, fishing, then have dinner at one of our restaurants. The next day, walk some trails or go biking or hik-ing.

Remember, there are picnic spots all along the way. Then, don’t forget to visit the light-house. And then there’s Carnifex Ferry Battle-field State Park and whitewater rafting.”

She also reminds travelers to visit the Henry Patterson House, which was caught between opposing armies during the Battle of Carnifex Ferry. “We also have a nine-hole golf course, and a winery and distillery here.”

It all bears out the tourism agency’s new tag-line, “Summersville: A Day in Every Direction.”

Before you know it, Taylor has mapped out four wonderful days. The fifth day, she said, take a short trip over to see the New River Gorge Bridge. And don’t forget to take souvenirs home from one of the many gift or antique shops.

Hike, wine, and dineAfter hiking trails ranging from easy strolls

to technical climbs, recharge at Summersville’s own local winery and at independently owned restaurants in town.

Plan your trip sooner rather than later if you want to sample the small-batch bourbon at Kirk-wood Winery.

“We only bottled 675 bottles, and it’s just about gone,” says Brenda Morris, who will greet you and let you know what’s new for your tast-ing pleasure, including new strawberry rhubarb and spiced apple wines.

Feeling more adventurous? Try the corn li-quor. “Yes, that’s moonshine,” said Morris. “We distill that here, too.”

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Don’t let the “big one” get away in this high mountain paradise.

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Unusual weather patterns bring West Vir-ginia’s Canaan Valley about 150 inches of snow each year. But, the traffic patterns made the trip from the Washington, D.C., area, take more than three hours. Now, a dual-lane highway cuts an hour from the trip and brings the year-round attractions much closer and the trip more enjoy-able.

Both of the valley’s ski resorts offer year-round activities. When the snow melts at Tim-berline, you can ride the chair lifts to the top with your mountain bike and pick a trail to chal-lenge. There’s also a new zip line to try. If you’d rather paddle, make a date with Blackwater Out-door Adventures to hit the Cheat River for some rafting, kayaking, canoeing, or lazy tubing.

Canaan Valley Resort State Park offers an 18-hole golf course, as well as a nature center that is the hub for outdoor activities. The center pro-vides guided hikes for all ages, and maps and guide books for hiking and biking the extensive

trails on your own. Many of the park’s trails link to hundreds of

miles of other trails in the 1 million-acre Monon-gahela National Forest. Ride the chair lift to get your bike to the top of the mountain or just to take in the scenery. The resort also has a climb-ing wall and Eurobungy, paintball, clay shoot-ing, and geocaching. The 160-room lodge was renovated in 2013.

Blackwater Falls State Park is one of the most visited sites in West Virginia. The dark-hued waters of the Blackwater River plunge five sto-ries and then tumble through an eight-mile-long gorge. The park offers a 54-room lodge, cab-ins, and camping as well as a nature center, 20 miles of hiking trails, boating at Pendleton Lake, and catch-and-release fishing in the Blackwater River.

Black Bear Resort offers cozy pedestal cabins as well as deluxe homes, and guests can enjoy a lodge area, miniature golf, tennis, a fitness trial,

swimming pool, and fishing pond onsite.The towns of Thomas and Davis are great

locations for antiquing and browsing through small shops and outfitters’ stores that carry ev-erything you need to enjoy the outdoors.

View from a horseMountain Trail Rides offers a different family

experience at its attractions. Kim Bonner Ben-nett’s family has roots that run deep in both the agricultural and tourism heritage of the Canaan Valley. Her grandparents offered horseback rid-ing and other activities on their farm and eventu-ally at Blackwater Falls State Park, too.

After a 20-year career of her own, Bennett re-turned home and followed in the footsteps of her grandparents and parents, taking charge of the new generation family business, Mountain Trail Rides.

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draw and cater to less experienced adults and children, there is much more to do. Hand-led pony rides are available for younger children

and a petting zoo allows visitors to pet and play with a variety of friendly farm animals. Louie the Llama is a favorite at the petting zoo.

“We take pride in creating a warm, friendly atmosphere and a feeling that this is your place, too,” says Bennett.

An old-time water sluice allows visitors to “pan” for gemstones and fossils and the Adven-ture Cave is a place where visitors may search for different rocks, minerals, gems, and fossils from all over the world. “The Adventure Cave is extremely popular with children,” says Bennett.

Despite the other attractions, horseback rid-ing is still the main focus of business at Mountain Trail Rides. Rides ranging in length from one hour to five hours are available year-round, with regular daily schedules maintained spring through fall and winter rides given by advance reservation. Sleigh rides are also available dur-ing winter months.

“Our horses are just wonderful,” says Ben-nett, “and the trail system we’ve created through the nearby meadows and woods pro-vides spectacular views of Canaan Valley. Horseback riding is a great activity for families to do together.”

In 2012, the Mountain Trail Rides family also returned to its very old roots at Blackwater Falls State Park. At the Farm Discovery Center, visi-tors can use an antique corn sheller, then a

continued on page 40Tucker County boasts miles of hiking and biking trails.

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Parkersburg mixes sternwheeler cruising with historical intrigue

Almost two miles of flowing Ohio River sepa-rates Parkersburg, W.Va., from Blennerhassett Island. As Blennerhassett Island Historical State Park’s Island Belle sternwheeler paddles toward the island — and history from the 1790s — visi-tors can gaze backward at Fort Boreman on the eastern bank. Built by Union troops during the Civil War to protect the Baltimore and Ohio Rail-road terminal at Parkersburg, Fort Boreman was named for West Virginia’s first governor, Park-ersburg citizen Arthur Boreman. Now, a bluff-top park allows visitors to wander along Civil War trenches, a reconstructed fortification, and trails that yield spectacular views of Parkersburg and the river.

The Palladian-style mansion built by Har-man Blennerhassett had already burned to the ground before the Civil War. But the state recon-struction of the manor also resurrected interest in the mysterious Blennerhassett family. Was the wealthy Irish aristocrat naïve or truly deceitful when, in 1805, he agreed to house a potentially treasonous military encampment on his island estate?

Blennerhassett was an edgy fellow — he was ostracized in Ireland for marrying his young niece as well as for lambasting the British gov-ernment. No one knew his motives for support-ing former U.S. Vice President Aaron Burr in a reputed plot to form a new empire out of the western states.

As the Island Belle heads down the Ohio, zig-zagging when Capt. Gary Kitchen lets children take the wheel, passengers can see more clearly what the Blennerhassett family lost when their estate was seized and its contents auctioned off. Blennerhassett and Burr were eventually acquit-ted, but their reputations and fortunes were de-stroyed. The Blennerhassetts never returned to their island paradise.

Blennerhassett Island State Park celebrates the Blennerhassett’s happy years of music and parties, when the throngs of guests strolling over the Oriental rugs included France’s future King Charles X. The house has been re-created with period accuracy and contains some Blennerhas-sett furnishings. Costumed guides dazzle visitors with the particulars of the mansion’s decorating and hospitality. “Notice the silver door knobs — they’re really silver,” says docent Joyce Moler.

Beyond the mansion, the island offers horse-drawn wagon rides. It’s a rare day when you don’t spot a raccoon, a turkey, or deer wan-dering the lawns. The 1802 Putnam-House was barged to the western end of the island when the last Putnam died. On weekends, a host points out peg joinery and horsehair plas-ter construction through windows cut into the home’s interior walls.

Open May through October, the park features brunches hosted by a Margaret Blennerhassett impersonator, musical events, and candlelight dinners. On First Friday nights, the Island Belle offers dinner cruises before Point Park concerts.

The Parkersburg area features the largest array of sternwheeler cruises within a half-day drive of Washington, D.C. Valley Gem Stern-wheeler, across the river in Marietta, Ohio, sends out paddlewheel ships on narrated sightseeing trips, as well as dinner, lunch, and brunch cruises. One trip cruises through some of the nation’s last hand-operated locks on the Muskingum River tributary.

History on landParkersburg boasts the Mountain State’s larg-

est historic district, the 126 Victorian homes of Julia-Ann Square built by many of the locals rich from the oil boom. A walking tour brochure contains detailed information on dozens of the houses, including architectural style and bio-graphical notes on the owners (one woman was reputed to have been Jack London’s mistress; another resident managed the Barnum & Bailey Circus).

Parkersburg’s other historical attractions in-clude Henderson Hall, a mansion built on an oil-rich farm beside three Indian mounds. To learn about the importance of oil to this region, look for the rusty pumpjack downtown — behind it is the Oil and Gas Museum. Exhibits offer insight into the region’s early oil boom, similar to that in Pennsylvania, as well as the effects of the Civil War on the Parkersburg area. Confederate soldiers enraged citizens in 1863 by burning a nearby oil field at Mineral Wells in an inferno that lasted days. Oilmen financed the Wheeling Conventions, where West Virginia statehood was conceived.

Visitors intrigued by the Blennerhassett story should take in the Blennerhassett Museum downtown, which features three floors explain-ing the history of the area. Artifacts range from Indian tools dating from 9000 B.C. to oil paint-ings, a portable still, and a birch-bark book of Margaret Blennerhassett’s poetry.

Insider tip: For chocolate aficionados, Holl’s Swiss Chocolatier is a gem. Founded 28 years ago, Holl’s has visitors making Internet orders to feed their new addiction. The showroom also markets wines and coffees that pair well with chocolate.

Local jewelThe jewel of downtown Parkersburg is the

historic Blennerhassett Hotel, dripping with Old World ambiance in its 91 rooms and in its up-scale Spats restaurant, where the food is heav-enly and saturated with flavor. Blennerhassett’s culinary classes cover such topics as the five “mother” sauces, pasta-making, and brunches.

Where can you eat Polish kielbasa, Jamaican jerk chicken, and legendary American hot dogs, all within steps of one another? Besides a diver-sity of food, Parkersburg’s free Mid-Ohio Multi-Cultural Festival, June 20-22, is known for music. Reggae, Latin, Mexican, German folk, Celtic, and American roots music share the stage with Native American and Middle Eastern dancers.

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Parkersburg offers outdoor recreation galore, including boating, fishing, and hiking along the 72-mile North Bend Rail Trail. The multi-use trail passes through 13 tunnels and an eponymous park. North Bend State Park offers “Intro to Ad-venture” day-long clinics in mountain biking and kayaking the first weekend of each month, $30 per clinic or $50 for both.

“The best mountain biking venue is Mount-wood Park — on the WV Mountain Bike race se-ries,” says Mark Lewis, who promotes the area.

The county-owned park’s 30 miles of single-track trails are considered among the best of the eastern United States’ single-park mountain biking destinations. Meticulously designed and maintained according to International Mountain Bicycling Association standards, these trails have a high fun factor.

The reconstructed Blennerhassett Mansion offers insights into Harman Blennerhassett’s role in Aaron Burr’s plot to form a new empire from the western states.

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original roundhouse was also de-stroyed and was rebuilt between 1866 and 1872. It is the only iron-framed roundhouse still standing in

the world today.“The roundhouse had not been

opened before. Now it’s staffed by retired B&O personnel who actu-ally worked in the building,” said Gassler.

Visitors also can stop by the home of

the infamous Confederate spy Belle Boyd, a building that also houses the area visitors’ center. Boyd showed her independent streak when, at 11 years old, she rode a horse into the house during her parents’ dinner party.

Dillon Farm on Route 9 between Martinsburg and Hedgesville is a private museum, which received an endowment so future gen-erations could see what farming is like. Wheat is still planted on the farm and antique farm equipment is used to harvest it.

For the youngsters, there’s the For the Kids, by George! Chil-dren’s Museum.

It’s a fun and educational look at George Washington’s connections to the area. It’s hands-on and inter-active.

Housed in the original Mar-tinsburg train station, the 6,400-square-foot museum space is divided into four sections, all of which can be explored indepen-dently or with a guide following different trails.

There is a working railroad ex-hibit, as well as a Lego room where the cityscape of Martinsburg has been recreated using the building blocks. There also are trays Legos available for kids to try their hand at construction.

The two museums not open on weekends — the Berkeley County Archives and the Sumner-Ramer Heritage Archives — are both lo-cated in public buildings closed on weekends. The Berkeley County Archives document the history of the town. The Sumner-Ramer Heri-tage Archives have visual repre-sentations of the early beginnings of education for African-Americans in the county.

“Our museums are now open almost 1,400 more hours than they have been in the past,” Gassler said.

Don’t let the weekends go to waste. Plan a getaway to Martins-burg this summer.

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As dawn breaks over West Virginia, the kitchen is already in full swing preparing break-fast at the MountainCraft gathering, and a man-dolin has started to play at one of the campsites. Over three days, Sept. 5-7, 300 people will gather at the North American Bushcraft School for primi-tive skills and music. Saturday night will feature award-winning old-time musicians Brad and Ken Kolodner, who will also offer banjo lessons dur-ing the day on Saturday. Classes will include things like making a gourd banjo, native flutes from bamboo, hand-drill fire-making, edible and medicinal plants, natural basket-making, iron forging, primitive archery and many more. It’s a three-day festival of primitive skills, old-time music, and community.

In the evenings, a bonfire will highlight music jams, dancing, and creativity of all sorts. There are a dozen or so of these types of gatherings along the East Coast of the U.S. during the year. Attendees often leave with a deep sense of com-munity and purpose.

The gatherings emphasize sustainable, slow

living through the adoption of a more homegrown lifestyle.

Regulars at these gatherings, folks like the elder, Snow Bear, sometimes call the practice “re-wilding.” For him, it’s not about disaster preparation, though that often brings people to the gatherings. It’s about building community and living well. Whether your interest is a specific skill like primitive bow and arrow construction, old-time music, or simply the re-wilding philoso-phy, the MountainCraft gathering has you cov-ered.

One of the organizers of MountainCraft de-scribed her introduction to primitive skills: “At first, the gathering seemed like summer camp! I made a spoon, and learned to timber frame a cabin, and I played a lot of music and made some great friends. Later, though, the gathering took on greater meaning to me. It serves as a reminder to me of what life can be, and what I strive to create every day. It’s not a rejection of modernity, it is about creating an enjoyable and meaningful life.”

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LaVerne Key heats up a woodfire brick oven, and recommends, well, everything. “I hate to say it because it’s my place, but everything here is really good,” she said. “We’ve got homemade barbeque, steaks, salmon, specialty pizzas, and calzones.”

Another meal option is Maloney’s Pub. Owner Aaron Maloney’s love for the town — and accompanying stories — will give you an appreciation for the character of Summers-ville.

For both visitors and residents, he recom-mends the steak sandwich — grilled ribeye with provolone cheese, red peppers, and onions.

If by now you aren’t so hungry you need a snack, you can start planning a trip by send-ing an email via the tourism website and you’ll receive a coupon for a free T-shirt. The shirt features a collage of several different Summersville attractions and says, of course, “A Day in Every Direction.”

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grinder, to grind corn before feeding it to the resi-dent chickens, turkeys, geese, and ducks. Guests can also use a demonstration cow to get the milk-ing experience and see a host of antique farm implements.

“At the Blackwater facility we try to convey in-formation about animals and agriculture which is not common knowledge,” says Bennett.

This year, Bennett will also be offering horse-back riding at Timberline, aiming for more expe-rienced riders who are looking for longer rides. “But we’ll still offer a one-hour ride there as well,” she said.

‘Get Tuckr’d’ getawayWhen you combine the horseback riding with

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Park offers train rides up steep grades and a quilt trail takes you past large quilt blocks dis-played on barns.

At the Elkins railroad depot, you can climb aboard the Durban & Greenbrier Valley Rail-road for several different scenic rail adven-tures. Take a steam locomotive alongside a mountain river, travel deep inside a mountain, or negotiate the two sharpest mainline railroad curves in the country.

Robert Van Camp, creator and producer of Great Scenic Railway Journeys on PBS, which has featured these excursions, was among guests recently at the RailYard Restaurant, housed in a vintage train car at the depot.

In Marlinton, the 4th Avenue Gallery artisan co-op has fine art, pottery, quilts, and furni-ture. Step back in time at the 100-year-old C.J. Richardson store, which has its original floors and shelving, as well as items as obscure as a ramp hoe and log roller. The store’s motto: “If we don’t have it, you don’t need it.”

The crown jewel of Greenbrier County may be The Greenbrier, a luxurious, 710-room resort that grew up around its rejuvenating sulphur springs. Built in 1913, the hotel has at-

tracted many famous guests, and public tours that include the secret Cold War bunker are “wildly popular,” according to Greenbrier his-torian Robert Conte.

Even more popular are the biking, hiking, walking, and horseback riding along the 78-mile Greenbrier River Trail. The town of Lew-isburg features eclectic, locally owned shops and restaurants as well as its own Carnegie Hall, one of only four remaining in the world.

More modern than the Greenbrier, but already an iconic symbol of Southern West Virginia, is the New River Gorge Bridge which spans one of the earth’s oldest rivers. Fayette County, home of the bridge and much of the scenic gorge, is also home to outfitters and ad-venture opportunities ranging from rafting the rapids to canopy tours to walking across the bridge on a 24-inch catwalk.

Charleston, on the Kanawha River, has an architecturally stunning state capitol, the West Virginia Culture Center and State Museum, and the Capitol Market, featuring West Vir-ginia-made items.

The Mountain State is calling with music, spirits, and more this summer.

Learn moreWest Virginia Tourism: 800-225-5982, wvtourism.com

Everybody heads to Ocean City for the sandy beach and boardwalk treats, but there’s a lot going on throughout the summer besides body-surfing and amusement rides.

June 6 — Family bonfire on the beach at 130th St.

Sundays, through Aug. 31 — OC Beach Lights. Eight-minute shows featuring a five-storey inflat-able sphere with a visual laser, lighting, special effects, video, and audio production at 9:30, 10:00, and 10:30pm.

June 13-15 — Wine in the Park. The second an-nual “Wine in the Park” at Northside Park features wineries from the East Coast and several vendors offering an array of international cuisine. There will also be arts and craft vendors, several micro-brewed beers for purchase, and live entertain-ment. ($25) Noon-8:00pm.

June 14-15 — OC Air Show. The Ocean City Air Show will be visible along the entire length of the boardwalk. Spectators can see the show free of charge. 1:00pm-4:00pm.

June 14-15 — Art’s Alive. Ocean City’s big-gest and best fine art show offers fine art for sale around a beautiful lagoon in picturesque Northside Park. Visit 100 artists, lunch at the Artists’ Café, and enjoy live music while your children enjoy free art activities.

June 26-19 — DEW Tour. This professional ac-tion sports tour involving BMX, skateboarding, and surfing brings 100 of the world’s best athletes to Ocean City’s beach near the Inlet.

July 4-13 — Greek Festival. Traditional Greek fare and vendors at the convention center

July 7-Aug. 26, Mondays and Tuesdays — Beach fireworks at 10:00pm.

Aug. 17-28 — Ocean City Hotel Week returns

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Summer has arrived, and the weekend ahead is a blank canvas… a clean white page waiting to be filled with friends, food, and adventures.

You could take your sweetheart for a romantic stay at a gorgeous B&B overlooking the water, or take the kids to meet the critters and romp in

the hay at a local agritourism farm. It would be fun to play with clay in a private pottery studio or check out the area’s first outdoor gallery garden. Or perhaps you’ll roam the shoreline looking for shark’s teeth, stroll the boardwalk in a lively beach town, visit a museum, and then treat

your taste buds to a gourmet meal. Summer weekends are priceless, so make the next one a masterpiece — the Southern Maryland Trails: Earth, Art, Imagination guidebook will show you how.

The guidebook, originally launched in 2005 by the Southern Maryland Agricultural Development Commission to promote the area’s culture and heritage, features every-thing handmade, homegrown, and authentically Southern Maryland. The book provides insider informa-tion on where to find the best art galleries and studios, wineries, lodg-ings, farms, eateries, and places of natural beauty. All the sites in the book are arranged geographically along the three main trails — the Barnwood and Beach Glass Loop, the Heron’s Flight, and the Fossils and Farmscapes Ramble — and you’ll find detailed descriptions, driving directions, maps, contact info, tips, and page after page of photos.

New this yearThe newly released fifth edition

has some fun new additions. You’ll find four new farms, several of which offer some very specialized classes

and training on topics such as bee-keeping, cultivating and using herbs, and artisanal cheese making. There are four new galleries, including the area’s first outdoor garden gallery, and six new art studios, including a studio inside a genuine log cabin, a pyrography (wood burning) art-ist, and a sculptor who creates using driftwood. There’s an arts-and-crafts boutique inside a vintage mill and a nothing-but-local specialty shop in-side a restored post office. You’ll find five new eateries, eight new special attractions, and a new vineyard and winery. The book also has added four new lodgings, including a turn-of-the-century inn tucked away in the village of Newport and a unique sweep of beach houses equipped to accommodate large gatherings.

For long-time friends of the trails, perhaps it’s time to re-visit some of your favorite sites along the way. In the din of the average work week, have you forgotten about that quiet café from your very first trails trip years ago, or that out-of-the-way beach park with the perfect picnic spot? It’s time to make some new memories.

So, before another weekend slips away, plan right now to sample

the scenic beauty, unique cuisine, and orig-inal art the region has to offer.

Connect with the many charming and colorful people who are the heart of Southern Maryland — the chefs, farmers, innkeepers, vintners, and shop keep-ers who own and oper-ate these sites.

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The Southern Mary-land Trails guidebook is available free at partner sites and des-ignated distribution sites throughout South-ern Maryland. You can also find a listing and more trails information at somdtrails.com. To learn more about the preservation and stew-ardship programs of the Southern Maryland Agricultural Develop-ment Commission, visit smadc.com.


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Capt. Phil Langley is a para-dox: a walking contradiction. He is totally committed to pre-serving the Chesapeake Bay waterman’s traditional way of life, yet he projects a clear vi-sion for the bay’s future.

A working fishing and charter captain, Langley is also one of more than a dozen Chesapeake watermen con-ducting heritage and ecotour-ism experiences. Watermen Heritage Tours, a partnership between the Chesapeake Conservancy, Coastal Heri-tage Alliance, Maryland Wa-termen’s Association, and the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, created a program to teach the insights and skills that can keep watermen on the water and supplement their incomes in a related new busi-ness.

Watermen Heritage Tours

offer up-close opportunities for everyone to viscerally understand how people make their living from the Chesapeake. Tours on the water range from tonging for oysters and crabbing adventures with trotlines and crab pots, to scenic kayak tours, to photography trips, sunset sails, and traditional skipjack charters. Land-based tours offer opportunities to learn about other aspects of the waterman’s trade including the soft-shell crab industry, oyster seeding, and even traditional cooking.

A map at watermenheritagetours.org shows where the tours are lo-cated along both sides of the Chesa-peake Bay.

Many tours can be customized to accommodate participants’ various interests and ages. More than enter-taining, these authentic experiences help preserve a culture. Participat-ing watermen have the insider’s per-spective of the bay and how to make a living in a very demanding but del-icate environment. Recent declines in catches have led many watermen to consider diversifying.

“I take people out on a crabbing heritage tour and help them catch a couple dozen crabs the traditional way,” said Langley. “I also want an-other option for watermen, rather than having to catch an ever-growing quota of crabs or fish. That puts a lot of pressure on the Chesapeake Bay resource.”

Lighthouses and crabs aboard the Lisa

Aboard the Lisa, a classic bay-built, Coast Guard-certified work-boat, Langley conducted 15 heritage tours last year, sharing his world with more than 150 people. Each trip begins in a dockside pavilion, with a brief rundown of the cruise des-tination and activities. He explains the traditional waterman’s methods, their impact on the bay’s ecology, and the industry’s future. On the nearby pier, guests can try using traditional oyster tongs to claw and hoist the bivalves from the creek bed.

Langley’s son, Cole, then backs the boat away from the dock and deftly navigates the narrow, twisting channel. Out on the open water, Cole points the Lisa toward the Point No Point lighthouse, two miles offshore. Langley uses the opportunity to talk about the history of Chesapeake Bay lighthouses and how they function.

From the Point No Point, Cole turns the Lisa south for the six-mile run to Point Lookout at the mouth of the Potomac River, Maryland’s southernmost point of land. Lang-ley explains that Point Lookout had been a beach resort but became a government hospital and the Civil War’s largest prisoner of war camp. The Point Lookout Lighthouse has achieved a reputation as one of this nation’s most haunted lighthouses, perhaps inhabited by the spirits of Confederate prisoners who died in the camp.

Unexplained sightings and noises within the structure were first re-corded in the 1940s and 50s. Dr. Hans Holzer, a renowned parapsy-chologist from New York, visited the house in 1980 and remarked that “this place is haunted as hell.” In 1998, The Learning Channel in-cluded Point Lookout in its popular documentary Haunted Lighthouses.

Cole turns the Lisa back north and stops on the way into the mouth of St. Jeromes Creek so that Langley and his guests can pull some of his “50 or so” crab traps. Shaking out the catch, willing hands re-bait the traps and pitch them back over the side. The newly caught crabs can serve as the main course at a traditional meal back at the shore-side pavilion.

The heritage tour program offers on-the-water and on-land tours that highlight the lives of the watermen, their communities, and the Chesa-peake’s history. You can get a better understanding of the Bristish inva-sion of Southern Maryland in 1814 if you take a three-hour tour from Solomons Island with Bunky’s Char-ters that includes a visit to St. Leon-ards Creek, site of the largest naval engagement in Maryland history. Much of the scenery along the Patux-ent River part of the cruise is little changed from the summer of 1814 when Commodore Joshua Barney’s flotilla challenged the mighty British Navy.

Langley and the other participat-ing watermen are very aware of the changes that have taken place on the bay. “We can’t keep treating the Chesapeake Bay as a commodity,” he says. “Success with the heritage tours does not depend on how many bushels you catch.”

For more informationWatermen Heritage Tours: watermenheritagetours.org


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We’ve all heard the time-honored adage on how “history repeats itself.” Indeed, one of the fas-cinating aspects of revisiting the past is discover-ing how closely one epic event may mirror that of another...up to a point.

Consider the Battle of Kernstown, just south of Winchester, Va. No, not the first Battle of Kern-stown, fought — and lost — by Confederate Gen. Stonewall Jackson on March 23, 1862, and re-garded as the opening engagement of Jackson’s now legendary Shenandoah Valley Campaign. Instead, move on to July 1864. Jackson is gone, having crossed over the river the year before after being fatally wounded at Chancellorsville by his own men.

Now, Gen. Jubal Early commands the Confed-erates, fighting to drive the Federals under Gen. George Crook from Virginia’s strategic valley. And on July 24, as the American Civil War enters its fourth year, Old Jube will succeed, routing Crook’s bluecoats back through Winchester and on toward the Potomac, stepping into Stonewall’s boots as it seemed, and heeding Jackson’s warn-ing that if this valley is lost, Virginia is lost.

Indeed, comparing Jackson’s Kernstown to Ear-ly’s Kernstown reveals several curious similarities. Both were fought on a Sunday. And both are con-sidered opening engagements of notable military campaigns. Yet in both cases, the battle’s initial victor would ultimately lose the campaign.

Despite a severe repulse at Kernstown in March of 1862, Jackson’s Confederates marched on to de-feat four separate Union armies in five battles over 11 weeks, dramatically undermining the Union war effort against Richmond, the capital of the Confed-eracy.

Early’s stunning victory at Kernstown two years later would permit his troops to enter Pennsylva-nia, burning downtown Chambersburg in retalia-tion for Union Gen. David Hunter’s earlier Valley depredations. But, but more importantly, the vic-tory would force Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant to detach Gen. Phil Sheridan, his most aggressive commander, from the Petersburg siege lines to confront Early with overwhelming force.

Commemoration eventsOn July 19-20, during the sesquicentennial com-

memoration of the Second Battle of Kernstown, visit the Pritchard-Grim Farm and Battlefield Visi-tor Center, located in the heart of the Kernstown Battlefield. Also, tour the Virginia Civil War 150 HistoryMobile, which will be on site all weekend.

For more vivid sights — and sounds — witness living history from the guns of the 10th West Vir-ginia, two Confederate cavalry units, and sharp-shooters from the 31st Georgia, all augmented by stunning artillery demonstrations. On Sunday, relax to live Civil War-era music played by the memory-making Shenandoah Valley Minstrels.

Twice daily, period fashion shows on the steps of the Pritchard House will grab your fancy, with tours of the 1854 home commencing every hour, 10:00am-4:00pm. Walking tours of the Kernstown Battlefield will be held throughout the morning and afternoon each day, beginning at the visitor center.

Insider tip: For a truly memorable souvenir of your day at Kernstown, secure your tintype image on the battlefield via a period photographer who will be on site.

For a more detailed, revealing account of what happened on this ground 150 years ago, sign up for Saturday’s guided motor coach tour, featuring author/historian Scott C. Patchan and guest host Roderick Gainer, the U.S. Army historian at Ar-lington National Cemetery. Beginning with visits to Stephenson’s Depot, Rutherford’s Farm, Hupp’s Hill, and Opequon Church, the tour will conclude with a vivid recounting of the actual fighting on the very ground it happened. But register in advance, as seats are limited.

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Grand Caverns Heritage DayGrand Caverns near Grottoes, Va., honors the

sesquicentennial with Heritage Day on June 7, 9:00am-4:00pm. Activities will include Civil War encampments, a visit from Virginia’s Civil War HistoryMobile, and a panel display called “An American Turning Point.”

Living history exhibits such as soap making, old machinery, and apple butter boiling will take place throughout the day, as well as demonstra-tions by crafters. There is no charge for daytime activities. Discounted regular caverns tours will be available throughout the day.

A candlelight tour and authentic ballroom dance will be held inside the caverns in the evening. (grandcaverns.com)

Trevilian StationLouisa County, Va., marks the 150th anniversary

of the Battle of Trevilian Station with a reenactment weekend, June 21-22.

Originally fought June 11-12, 1864, the battle was the largest all-cavalry engagement of the Civil War, involving more than 15,000 horse soldiers.

Hundreds of cavalry horses, mounted reenac-tors, infantry, and sutlers will participate and there will be actual working Civil War telegraphy and field hospital demonstrations.

The weekend includes living history talks, tours, entertainment, and demonstrations. Children will enjoy Civil War-era dancing and games.

There also will be a grand parade of horse-drawn carriages on both days, and food and drink will be available all weekend.

The Battle of Cold Harbor, originally fought in early June 1864 near Richmond, will also be reen-acted during the weekend. (trevbattleva.com)

Gen. George Crook led Union forces in the battle to be reenacted July 19-20.

Gen. Jubal Early led Confederate forces to victory at the Second Battle of Kearnstown.

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FLAG DAY CELEBRATIONJune 14, 11:00am-2:00pm. The Maryland Air Museum offers visitors an up-close visit to the museum’s outdoor flight line of airplanes as they climb into the pilot’s seat. Martin State Airport, Middle River, Md. 410-682-6122, mdairmuseum.org

MANASSAS WINE AND JAZZ FESTIVAL June 15, noon-7:00pm. Bring a lawn chair or blanket to relax on the pavilion lawn in Old Town Manassas with a bottle of wine and lunch from the gourmet food concessions, while listening to live jazz performances. Manassas Museum Lawn, 9101 Prince William St., Manassas, Va. visitmanassas.org

HERNDON FESTIVALThrough June 1. The festival features big name entertainment on three stages, a carnival, fireworks, children’s hands-on art area, and arts and crafts show. Downtown Herndon, Va. hern-donfestival.net

BLACKBEARD PIRATE FESTIVALThrough June 1. Interact with Blackbeard (personified by first-person interpreter Ben Cherry) and more than 100 other au-thentically costumed pirate re-enactors as they run rampant on the streets of America’s oldest continuous English-speaking settlement. Downtown Hampton, Va. 757-727-1102, black-beardfestival.com

CAPITAL PRIDEThrough June 8. The event brings together national and local LGBT organizations with more than 50 diverse educational and entertainment events. The highlights include a street festival and parade. The parade begins at 22nd St. and P St., NW, Wash-ington, D.C. capitalpride.org

CAPE MAY MUSIC FESTIVALThrough June 12. Enjoy world-class orchestral and chamber music, jazz, brass band, and Irish music, and Bach’s Lunches. Cape May, N.J. 800-275-4278, capemaymac.org

RAVENS BEACH BASH WEEKENDJune 1. Fans join Ravens players, coaches, cheerleaders, Play-makers, Poe, talent from 98Rock, and Miller Lite as they turn Ocean City into Ravenstown for the weekend. Clarion Resort Hotel, 10100 Coastal Hwy., Ocean City, Md. 410-524-3535, clari-onoc.com

WILMINGTON GREEK FESTIVALJune 3-7, 11:00am-11:00pm. This event features authentic Greek food, homemade desserts, a regionally renowned orches-tra, and the Terpsechorian Youth Folk dance group. Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church, Wilmington, Del. greekfestde.com

BEER, BOURBON, AND BBQ FESTIVALJune 6-7. The name speaks for itself. Lots of beer, bourbon, and barbecue. 137 National Plaza, National Harbor, Md. 877-628-5427, nationalharbor.com

CELEBRATE FAIRFAXJune 6-8, 6:00-7:00pm. The 25-acre site is magically filled with fascinating sights and sounds of more than 300 exhibitors, food vendors, crafters, and interactive activities. 12000 Government Center Pkwy., Fairfax, Va. 703-324-3247, celebratefairfax.com

NORFOLK HARBORFESTJune 6-8. Includes tall ships and the Parade of Sails; the largest fireworks show on the East Coast; local, regional, and national entertainment; family activities; unique and unusual perfor-mances; and water activities. Waterside Dr., Norfolk, Va. 757-441-2345, festevents.org

SOURCE FESTIVALJune 6-29. An annual performing arts festival dedicated to showcasing new work from across the nation. Source Theatre, 1835 14th St., NW, Washington, D.C. sourcefestival.org

BELTWAY BBQ SHOWDOWNJune 7, noon-7:00pm. Food demonstrations, Buck-A-Bone ribs, People’s Choice Sauce contest, live music, and beer and wine garden. Tucker Road Athletic Complex, 1771 Tucker Rd., Fort Washington, Md. pgparks.com

FREDERICK FESTIVAL OF THE ARTSJune 7-8. More than 100 regional artists display and sell their work in this juried two-day festival. Live music and food. Car-roll Creek Linear Park, Frederick, Md. 301-662-4190, frederick-artscouncil.org

ST. ANTHONY’S ITALIAN FESTIVALJune 8-15. Enjoy classical music and opera, live Italian and con-temporary music, string bands, strolling minstrels, and tradi-tional dance; artisans from Italy; carnival rides and games; and food. Wilmington, Del. stanthonysfestival.com

VIRGINIA BLUES AND JAZZ FESTIVALJune 13-15. Garth Newel Music Center, Hot Springs, Va. 877-558-1689, vabluesfest.org

MARYLAND TRADITIONS FOLKLIFE FESTIVALJune 14. A free celebration for all ages with music stages featur-ing jazz, doo-wop, West African dance and drum, gospel, and Irish, plus art making with the masters and headliner Lafay-ette Gilchrist and the New Volcanoes. 3134 Eastern Ave., Balti-more, Md. 410-276-1651, msac.org

TALL SHIPS AT CAPE CHARLESJune 14-15, 9:00am-5:00pm. The tall ships will open their decks for public tours. Enjoy delectable food, refreshing beverages, and arts, crafts, and collectibles vendors, as well as music and entertainment by local performers. Cape Charles, Va. tallships capecharles.com

DUPONT CLIFFORD BROWN JAZZ FESTIVALJune 18-21. The free festival brings some of the most exciting jazz entertainers to the stage for a mix of traditional jazz perfor-mances punctuated by fusion funk, blues, and rock. Wilming-ton, Del. cliffordbrownjazzfest.com

FIREFLY MUSIC FESTIVALJune 19-22. Check website to view lineup and show times. Dover Speedway grounds, 1131 N. Dupont Hwy., Dover, Del. 312-253-6545, fireflyfestival.com

CHESAPEAKE CRAB AND BEER FESTIVALJune 21, 11:00am-3:00pm and 5:00-9:00pm. Thousands of crabs, lots of beer, arts and crafts, music, and family fun. Westshore Park, Baltimore, Md. 800-830-3976, mdcrabfest.com

ALEXANDRIA FOOD AND WINE FESTIVALJune 21, noon-7:00pm. A lively showcase of local food and wine with a full day of entertainment including music, arts and craft exhibits, and children activities. John Carlyle Square, 300 John Carlyle St., Alexandria, Va. alexandriafoodandwine.com

FOOD AND WINE FESTIVALJune 21. Attendees will be sampling local wines alongside an as-sortment of cheeses, meats, fruits, and other “foodie” delights; live music. Hagerstown, Md. valleywinefest.com

SAFEWAY BARBECUE BATTLEJune 21-22. Barbecue and grilled taste treats of all kinds from around the country, two days of non-stop musical and family en-tertainment, cooking demonstrations by top national barbecue chefs, and America’s only Na-tional Barbecue Cooking Cham-pionship. Pennsylvania Ave., Washington, D.C. bbqdc.com

SUMMER BREWFESTJune 21-22, noon. More than 60 breweries will feature their best American-style beers. Entertainment includes live music and children’s activities such as face painting, air-brush tattooing, moon bounces, and rock climbing. Morven Park, 41793 Tutt Ln., Leesburg, Va. novabrewfest.com

PAINT ANNAPOLISJune 23-28. A four-day juried plein air painting competi-tion that draws artists and art enthusiasts from across the country. 18 State Circle, An-napolis, Md. 410-268-4566, mdfedart.com

ORANGE COUNTY FAIRJune 24-26. Old Gordonsville Road Fairgrounds, Orange County, Va. 540-661-5393, or-angecountyvafair.com

D.C. JAZZ FESTIVALJune 24-29. Features more than 100 jazz performances at concert venues and clubs throughout Washington, D.C. Check website for participat-ing venues. dcjazzfest.org

SMITHSONIAN FOLKLIFE FESTIVALJune 25-29, July 2-6. Open daily 11:00am-5:30pm. Includes daily and evening music and dance performances, crafts and cook-ing demonstrations, storytelling, and discussions of cultural is-sues. National Mall, between 7th and 14th Sts., Washington, D.C. festival.si.edu

CHINCOTEAGUE FIREMAN’S CARNIVALJune 27-28; July 4-5, 11-12, 18-19, 25-26; and July 28-Aug. 2. Rides, food, fun. Carnival leads up to the world famous Pony Swim and Auction. Chincoteague, Va. chincoteaguechamber.com

HAMPTON JAZZ FESTIVALJune 27-29. The nation’s top blues, soul, pop, and jazz perform-ers. Hampton Coliseum, 1000 Coliseum Dr., Hampton, Va. 757-838-4203, hamptonjazzfestival.com

VICTORIAN FAMILY FAIRJune 28, 10:00am-4:00pm. The day features live musical perfor-mances, crafts, collectibles, living history characters, children’s activities, and refreshments. Emlen Physick Estate, 1048 Wash-ington St., Cape May, N.J. 800-275-4278, capemaymac.org.

MID-ATLANTIC SEA GLASS FESTIVALJune 28-29. Features more than 70 sea glass artists, joined by other coastal artists, including decoy carvers and waterfowl art-ists. Also, enjoy live music. Lewes Historic Complex, 110 Shipcar-penter St., Lewes, Del. 302-645-7670, historiclewes.org

LITTLE LEVELS HERITAGE FAIRJune 27-29. Hillsboro, W.Va. 800-336-7009, naturesmtnplay-ground.com/mtnevents

CHEVELLE SHOWJune 27-28. Largest gathering of 1964-72 Chevelles and El Caminos on the East Coast; music and food. Walnut St., North East, Md. 410-287-5801, mdchevelleclub.com

NORTHERN VIRGINIA TOUR DE CUREJune 1. A day full of fun and excitement where riders of all levels join forces in the fight to stop diabetes. Reston Town Center, 1818 Discovery St., Reston, Va. 202-331-8303 ext. 4537, main.diabetes.org/site/tr/tourdecure

AIR FORCE ASSOCIATION CYCLING CLASSICJune 7-8. The weekend’s festivities consist of various events for cycling professionals, amateurs, and spectators. June 7 at Clar-endon Metro Stop and June 8 at 2100 Crystal Dr., Arlington, Va. 202-966-0346, cyclingclassic.org

HOO-HA CROSS COUNTRY RACEJune 7-8. Check website for schedule. Massanutten’s Western Slope, Keezletown, Va. massresort.com

LIFE’S A BEACH TRIATHALONJune 14. The beach swim is 200 yards of “almost anything goes,” with racers allowed to use boogie boards, swim fins, mask and snorkels, water wings, and almost anything else to help them feel comfortable and have fun. 100 First St. S, Hampton, Va. 727-422-1956, lifesabeachtriathlon.com

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CAPITAL JAZZ FESTJune 6-8. A showcase of live contemporary jazz music in Amer-ica. 10475 Little Patuxent Pkwy., Columbia, Md. 410-715-5550, merriweathermusic.com

ELTON JOHNJune 12, 8:00pm. Elton John will be bringing his decades-thick book of hits to Farm Bureau Live this summer for a June 12 con-cert. 3550 Cellar Door Way, Virginia Beach, Va. 757-368-3000

CONCERT IN THE GARDENJune 25. A live musical evening in the gardens with Andrew Acosta and the new Old-Time String Band. Bring a picnic din-ner to enjoy on the lawn. Green Spring Gardens, 4603 Green Spring Rd., Alexandria, Va. 703-642-5173, fairfaxcounty.gov/parks/greenspring

THE THREEPENNY OPERAThrough June 1. Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill’s cutting and en-during critique of capitalism and corruption. Signature Theatre, 4200 Campbell Ave., Arlington, Va. 571-527-1860, signature-theatre.org

WEST SIDE STORYJune 3-8. West Side Story tells the story of star-crossed lovers Tony and Maria as they struggle to rise above the hatred and intolerance that surrounds them. National Theatre, 1321 Penn-sylvania Ave., NW, Washington, D.C. thenationaldc.com

TRACY MORGANJune 6, 9:00pm. The hilarious comedian-actor-writer-producer who honed his comedic chops and achieved fame on Saturday Night Live. Dover Downs Hotel and Casino, 1131 N. Dupont Hwy., Dover, Del. 302-674-4600, doverdowns.com

DISNEY’S BEAUTY AND THE BEASTJune 6-8. Belle and her enchanted entourage prove love con-quers all in this family-favorite musical with an Oscar-winning score featuring “Something There” and “If I Can’t Love Her.” Wolf Trap, 1551 Trap Rd., Vienna, Va. 703-255-1900, wolftrap.org

THE BFGJune 25-Aug. 10. Integrates puppetry, rich visuals, and imagina-tive storytelling as Sophie and the Big Friendly Giant go on a magical journey to save the children of England. Imagination Stage, 4908 Auburn Ave., Bethesda, Md. imaginationstage.org

BLACK BOX: CAMILLE HENROTThrough June 15. The first museum in the United States to pres-ent French artist Camille Henrot’s Grosse Fatigue, an energetic and poetic 13-minute video on the creation of the world. The Baltimore Museum of Art, 10 Art Museum Dr., Baltimore, Md. 443-573-1700, artbma.org

CHARM CITY FILM FESTIVALJune 1 and 29. Creative Alliance presents six award-winning films from the U.S., Taiwan, Germany, Africa, and India that have premiered at the most renowned national and international LGBT film festivals. 3134 Eastern Ave., Baltimore, Md. 410-276-1651, creativealliance.org

AFI SILVERDOCS FILM FESTIVALJune 18-22. 8633 Colesville Rd., Silver Spring, Md. 301-495-6720, afi.com/afidocs

DANCE PROGRAMSWeekends, 7:30-11:30pm. Glen Echo Park, 7300 MacArthur Blvd., Glen Echo, Md. fridaynightdance.org

THE WASHINGTON BALLETCall for performances and times. 3515 Wisconsin Ave., NW, Washington, D.C. 202-362-3606, washingtonballet.org

GARRY WINOGRANDThrough June 8. Revealing the full breadth of his art for the first time, Garry Winogrand brings together some 190 of the artist’s most iconic images — many never before exhibited or repro-duced. The National Gallery of Art, National Mall between Third and Seventh Sts. at Constitution Ave., NW, Washington, D.C. 202-737-4215, nga.gov

GRAVITY’S EDGEThrough June 15. Spanning the period 1959-1978 and featuring works by canonical East Coast Color Field painters. The Hirshorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Independence Ave. and Sev-enth St., SW, Washington, D.C. 202-633-1000, hirshhorn.si.edu

FRONT ROOM: STERLING RUBYThrough June 15. An exhibition of provocative soft sculptures by acclaimed artist Sterling Ruby. The Baltimore Museum or Art, 10 Art Museum Dr., Baltimore, Md. 443-573-1700, artbma.org

PHOTOS, REAL AND IMAGINARYThrough June 18. This special three-artist photography collec-tion will highlight the unique views of the three top Northern Virginia photographers: Don Allen, David Rafalko, and JoAnn Woods. Liberty Tax Art Gallery, 8558-E Lee Hwy., Fairfax, Va. 703-268-5230, libertytax.com

JURIED PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITIONThrough June 22. Held by the Berkeley Arts Council Art Works Gallery, 116 North Queen St., Martinsburg, W.Va. berkeley-artswv.org

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DINOS LIVE!, for the first time, brings the life-like creations of Billings Productions, North Ameri-ca’s leading producer of animatronic dinosaurs, to the museum, May 24-Sept. 1.

Tremble at a growling Tyrannosaurus rex; watch an Edmontosaurus mother tend her brood; see Euoplocephalus, built like a military tank and weighing three tons; and view Styracosarus, one of the most spectacular of the horned reptiles. The di-nosaur that highlights the link between non-avian dinosaurs and birds is the Citipati, whose spec-tacular head crest is similar to that of a modern cassowary.

Each animatronic dinosaur is powered by a pneumatic system and fitted with its own electronic “brain” to activate and control fluid movements and prehistoric sounds. The frames are covered with detailed foam rubber skin to simulate their lifelike appearance with bony horns, sharp claws, and blade-like teeth.

Also new this summer is Fossil Find, a tented outdoor dinosaur excavation area. Amateur pale-ontologists can search through a mound of fossil-filled sediment and then take home real fossils.

Step back in time 65 million years with DINOS LIVE! Learn and appreciate the world’s prehistoric past and uncover its lessons for our planet’s future.

Through Labor Day, the museum is open 9:00am-5:00pm daily. Adult admission is $17, chil-dren ages 3-12 are $13. (thevlm.org)

BALTIMORE ORIOLES AT HOMEFri., June 6 vs. Athletics, 7:05pmSat., June 7 vs. Athletics, 7:15pmSun., June 8 vs. Athletics, 1:35pmMon., June 9 vs. Red Sox, 7:05pmTue., June 10 vs. Red Sox, 7:05pmWed., June 11 vs. Red Sox, 7:05pmThu., June 12 vs. Blue Jays, 7:05pmFri., June 13 vs. Blue Jays, 7:05pmSat., June 14 vs. Blue Jays, 4:05pmSun., June 15 vs. Blue Jays, 1:35pmMon., June 23 vs. White Sox, 7:05pmTue., June 24 vs. White Sox, 7:05pmWed., June 25 vs. Indians, 7:05pmFri., June 27 vs. Rays, 7:05pmSat., June 28 vs. Rays, 4:05pmSun., June 29 vs. Rays, 1:35pmMon., June 30 vs. Rangers, 7:05pmThe Orioles play home games at Oriole Park at Camden Yards, 333 West Camden St., Baltimore, MD 21201. Call 888-848-BIRD or visit baltimore.orioles.mlb.com.

WASHINGTON NATIONALS AT HOMESun., June 1 vs. Rangers, 1:35pmTue., June 3 vs. Phillies, 7:05pmWed., June 4 vs. Phillies, 7:05pmThu., June 5 vs. Phillies, 7:05pmTue., June 17 vs. Astros, 7:05pmWed., June 18 vs. Astros, 7:05pmThu., June 19 vs. Braves, 7:05pmFri., June 20 vs. Braves, 7:05pmSat., June 21 vs. Braves, 7:15pmSun., June 22 vs. Braves, 1:35pmMon., June 30 vs. Rockies, 7:05pmThe Nationals play home games at Nationals Park, 1500 South Capitol St., SE, Washington, DC 20003. Call 202-397-SEAT (7328) or visit washington.nationals.mlb.com.

DC UNITED AT HOMESat., June 7 vs. Columbus, 7:00pmSat., June 28 vs. Seattle, 7:00pmDC United plays home games at RFK Stadium, 2400 East Capitol St., SE, Washington, DC 20003. Call 202-587-5000 or visit dcunited.com.

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MODERN GERMAN PRINTS AND DRAWINGS Through June 29. The exhibition explores themes of human life and passion, the place of man in nature, and the urbanization of society. The National Gallery of Art, National Mall between Third and Seventh Sts. at Constitution Ave., NW, Washington, D.C. 202-737-4215, nga.gov

BEAUTY IN AFRICAN-AMERICAN CULTUREThrough July 27. The exhibition explores contemporary under-standings of beauty by framing the notion of aesthetics, race, class, and gender within art, popular culture, and political con-texts. Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 200 N. Blvd., Richmond, Va. 804-340-1400, vmfa.museum

RALPH FASANELLA: LEST WE FORGETThrough Aug. 3. Brings together 19 of the artist’s most signifi-cant paintings and eight sketches on the 100th anniversary of his birth. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Eighth and F Sts., NW, Washington, D.C. americanart.si.edu

ARCHITECTURAL BOOKSThrough Aug. 17. Some books survey a variety of architectural works, while others focus on a specific building. National Gallery of Art, National Mall between Third and Seventh Sts. at Consti-tution Ave., NW, Washington, D.C .202-737-4215, nga.gov

A REVOLUTIONARY SPIRITThrough Oct. More than 30 vivid paintings, drawings, prints, wa-tercolors, and sculpture present an overview of the revolution-ary art movement that flourished in Germany. The Baltimore Museum of Art, 10 Art Museum Dr., Baltimore, Md. 443-573-1700, artbma.org

RYAN MCGINNESS: STUDIO VISITThrough Oct. 19. The exhibit will explore this contemporary art-ist’s creative process for his 2009 painting “Art History Is Not Lin-ear.” The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 200 N. Blvd., Richmond, Va. 804-340-1400, vmfa.museum

BASEBALL AND BECOMING AN AMERICANThrough Oct. 26. Features more than 130 original objects, in-cluding game-worn uniforms, game-used objects, correspon-dence, newspaper accounts, board games, awards, baseball cards, signed baseballs, Jewish ritual objects, and ballpark give-aways. National Museum of American Jewish History, 101 South Independence Mall E., Philadelphia, Pa. 215-923-3811, nmajh.org

PTEROSAURS: FLIGHT IN THE AGE OF DINOSAURSThrough Jan. 4. Highlights the latest research by museum sci-entists and leading paleontologists around the world and fea-tures rare pterosaur fossils and casts from Italy, Germany, China, the United States, the United Kingdom, and Brazil. American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West at 79th St., New York, N.Y. 212-769-5100, amnh.org

VIDEO ART EXHIBITIONJune 6-Oct. 12. The first museum exhibition to focus on women’s impact on the field of video art. National Museum of Women in the Arts, 1250 New York Ave., NW, Washington, D.C. nmwa.org

FRONT ROOM: SETH ADELSBERGERJune 29-Nov. 2. A variety of luminescent and textured paintings from Baltimore-based artist Seth Adelsberger demonstrates the artist’s innovative approaches to painting over the past five years. The Baltimore Museum of Art, 10 Art Museum Dr., Balti-more, Md. 443-573-1700, artbma.org

FASHION IN COLONIAL VIRGINIAJune 1-30. From leather to linen, explore how clothing of the period was fashioned during an interpretive theme month with hands-on activities. Jamestown Settlement, Williamsburg, Va., and The Yorktown Victory Center, Yorktown, Va. 757-253-4838, historyisfun.org

RAIDERS AND INVADERS WAR OF 1812 WEEKENDJune 6-8. Music, street theater, boat excursions, vendors, dem-onstrations, food, brews, and fun along the waterfront. Wash-ington St., Leonardtown, Md. 301-475-4200, ext. 1404, raidersandinvaders.com

D-DAY PARADEJune 7, 10:00pm-noon. Antique cars, bands, veterans, living historians, and more will parade through town. East Main and Bridge Sts., Bedford, Va. 540-586-3329, dday.org

THE 1812 FAIR AND REENACTMENTJune 21-22. Step back in time to experience life during the War of 1812. This two-day spectacular features battle reenactments, living history, music, dance, vendors, and food. Jefferson Pat-terson Park and Museum, 10515 Mackall Rd., St. Leonard, Md. 410-586-8501, jefpat.org

UNDERGROUND RAILROAD GUIDED HIKESJune 28, 9:00am-1:00pm. Hikers learn about various techniques that “freedom seekers” used to elude trackers, find food, and navigate their way north to freedom. Woodlawn Manor Cultural Park, 16501 Norwood Rd., Sandy Spring, Md. historyintheparks.org

KINGSLEY SCHOOLHOUSE FREE TOURSJune 28, noon-4:00pm. Enjoy free interpretive tours of this his-toric 19th-century one-room schoolhouse. Come learn what school was like in Montgomery County back in the 1920s. Little Bennett Regional Park Kingsley Parking Area, Clarksburg Rd., Clarksburg, Md. historyintheparks.org

OAKLEY CABIN MUSEUM AND PARK FREE TOURSJune 28, noon-4:00pm. Guided tours, living history demonstra-tions, crafts, and activities for children will be available. Enjoy tours of the historic cabin and learn about the African-American experience after the Civil War. Oakley Cabin African-American Museum and Park, 3610 Brookeville Rd., Olney, Md. historyin-theparks.org

HERITAGE DAYS AT THE HARPER 1870S HOMESTEADJune 28-29, 10:00am-4:00pm. Experience how one family lived in the post-emancipation period by raising chickens, grinding their own grain, and living off of the environment. Brookside Nature Center, 1400 Glenallan Ave., Wheaton, Md. historyin-theparks.org

A WALK IN FATHER HENSON’S FOOTSTEPS June 29, noon-4:00pm. Retrace the footsteps of the Rev. Josiah Henson from his enslavement to escape on the Underground Railroad to freedom in Canada. Walk the grounds where Hen-son toiled as a slave on the Isaac Riley Plantation. Josiah Henson Park, 11420 Old Georgetown Rd., North Bethesda, Md. history-intheparks.org

OLD MARYLAND FARM ACTIVITIES Old Maryland Farm, 301 Watkins Park Dr., Upper Marlboro, Md. 301-218-6770 or 301-699-2544, pgparks.com

MONTPELIER MANSION TOURSSundays, 1:00pm and 2:00pm. Montpelier Mansion, Rt. 197 and Muirkirk Rd., Laurel, Md. 301-953-1376

FREE AVIATION LECTURE SERIESJune 2, 7:00pm. Presenter Rick Davis will talk about his Martin Marlin (P5M) aircraft deployment in the Cold War. Lockheed Martin Auditorium, 2323 Eastern Blvd., Middle River, Md. 410-682-6122

WOMEN OF CIVIL WAR RICHMOND WALKING TOURJune 14, 10:30am-noon. Stroll through the heart of the Confed-erate capital and hear the stories of Richmond women, from daring spies and devoted nurses to star-crossed lovers and cap-tivating socialites. American Civil War Museum, Richmond, Va. 855-649-1861, ext. 121, moc.org

WOMEN AT WARJune 22, 1:00pm. Join a costumed historical interpreter in ex-ploring the means and motivations of women who disguised themselves as men in order to fight alongside their brothers-in-arms. American Civil War Museum, Richmond, Va. moc.org

STAINED-GLASS CLASSOngoing. Mat About You Gallery, 3774 Old Columbia Pike, Elli-cott City, Md. 410-313-8860, mataboutyou.com

ADULT ART COURSESBaltimore Museum of Art, 10 Art Museum Dr., Baltimore, Md. 443-573-1700, artbma.org

GALLERY TALKSThursdays, 1:00pm; Saturdays and Sundays, 2:00pm. Baltimore Museum of Art, 10 Art Museum Dr., Baltimore, Md. 443-573-1700, artbma.org

SECOND SUNDAY SPOTLIGHT TALKSSecond Sunday of every month, 2:00pm. Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, Md. 410-547-9000, thewalters.org

TRADITIONAL ART CLASSES Carroll County Farm Museum, 500 S. Center St., Westminster, Md. 410-386-3880, carroll-countyfarmmuseum.org

CAPE MAY, NJHistoric district, moonlight trolley, and Cape May sampler tours. Cape May, N.J. 800-275-4278, capemaymac.org

MARITIME HISTORY WALKING TOURSSecond and fourth Saturdays, 10:00am. Fells Point Visitor Cen-ter, Baltimore, Md. 410-675-6750, preservationsociety.com

NIKE-AJAX MISSILE SITE N-75 WALKING TOURThrough Nov. The program begins with a short presentation followed by a walking tour of this site which contains the origi-nal barracks, mess hall, administration and recreation building, officer/non-commissioned officer family housing, fueling area, and underground missile magazines. Isle of Wight, Va. 757-357-0115, historicisleofwight.com

WALKING THROUGH TIME TOURJune 7 and 21, July 12 and 26, Aug. 9 and 23, and Sep. 13. Learn about the life and personalities of the City of Fairfax in this 90-minute guided walking tour through the Old Town Fairfax National Register Historic District. Fairfax Museum and Visitor Center, Fairfax, Va. 703-385-8414, historicfairfax.org

SUITLAND BOG TOURSJune 7, July 5, Aug. 2, Sep. 13, 10:00am-2:00pm. This bog is now a unique wetland within the Washington Metropolitan Area. Suitland, Md. 301-627-7755, pgparks.com

GUIDED TOUR OF BROWN’S ISLANDJune 14, noon. Museum educator Sean Kane will lead a walk over to Brown’s Island, a small island near Tredegar that played a significant role during the Civil War as the location of the Con-federate States Laboratory. American Civil War Museum, Rich-mond, Va. moc.org

LEWES GARDEN TOURJune 21. Private and public gardens in and around Lewes, Del. leweschamber.com

REHOBOTH BEACH RESTAURANT WEEKJune 1-6. Check website for participating restaurants in Re-hoboth, Del. downtownrehoboth.com

KIDS’ FISHING DAYJune 7, 8:30am-noon. Fishing demonstrations and instructions for ages 15 and under. National Wildlife Visitor Center, 10901 Scarlet Tanager Loop, Laurel, Md. 301-497-5887, fws.gov/north-east/patuxent

LEARN TO FLY DAYJune 7, 10:00am-3:00pm. See airplanes, helicopters, and gliders up close; enjoy lunch at Airways Inn Restaurant; and get infor-mation on learning to fly. 310 Aviation Way, Frederick, Md. 301-695-2000, aopa.org

CLEAN THE BAY DAYJune 7, 9:00am-noon. Individuals, groups, and organizations help to cleanup Chesapeake’s waterways. 1224 Progressive Dr., Suite 200, Chesapeake, Va. 757-382-6411

DEW TOURJune 26-29. This event is a professional action sports tour in-volving BMX, skateboarding, and surfing. At the Boardwalk and Wicomico St. Pier, Ocean City, Md. 800-626-2326, ococean.com/events/dew-tour

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Visitors to Frederick, Md., this July shouldn’t be surprised to hear the boom of a cannon or to get a tap on the shoulder from a Confederate sol-dier seeking ransom money.

It’s all part of the Sesquicenten-nial of the Battle of Monocacy, and you can become a part of history by joining in the area’s many related events.

The battle that saved Washington, D.C.

The July 9, 1864, Battle of Mono-cacy was the climatic outcome of Confederate Gen. Jubal Early’s raid on Maryland.

This final invasion of the north was the Confederates’ attempt to distract Union forces and march toward a largely unguarded Washington, D.C. “The Confederates didn’t think they

were going to meet with any resis-tance. They were greatly surprised,” says Jeremy Murphy, chief ranger at Monocacy National Battlefield.

On the beautiful farmland just outside Frederick, Union Gen. Lew Wallace anticipated the threat and marshaled his forces, slowing Early down until troops around the capital could be reinforced. Meanwhile, as Early’s troops passed through, they demanded — and received — ran-som money from Frederick and sur-rounding towns.

Remembering at Monocacy

Monocacy National Battlefield will kick off its commemoration activi-ties on July 5, with programs for all ages, most of them free, happening through July 13.

“This is going to be much big-ger than anything we’ve ever done here,” Murphy says.

At the visitor center, folks will find a Youth Activity Tent; Battle Orienta-tion talks; and infantry, artillery, and cavalry demonstrations.

Visitors will also have the oppor-tunity to mingle with living historians and, on July 9, can choose from a va-riety of real-time battlefield hikes.

The story of the conflict will come alive in programs through-out the battlefield, including at the Worthington House Cellar, where a six-year-old boy peeked through a window to witness the battle, and Gambrill Mill, which went from mill to makeshift field hospital in a matter of hours.

Huzzah for the home front

Just two miles from the battlefield,

downtown Frederick visitors can expect to travel back in time for a glimpse of life on the home front in 1864.

Liz Shatto, who promotes the ar-ea’s Civil War connections, suggests starting with “Huzzah for Liberty!” at the Museum of Frederick County History.

“The exhibit is a great comple-ment to the Civil War history, and the actual ransom document will be on display,” she says.

The ransom will be the theme of “Frederick Ransomed! 1864: The Final Invasion,” taking place on July 5 from 3:00-9:00pm on Patrick, Mar-ket, and Church streets. Shatto says, “We’ll have lots going on, including a brass band and re-enactors who will be seeking help raising the ran-som.”

The history museum offers the Civil War Mayhem Walking Tour on June 28 and July 26 at 7:00pm.

On the walk you’ll discover what it was like to live in Frederick dur-ing the chaos of the Civil War, when loyalties were questioned and lives were on the line.

While in Frederick, check out the National Museum of Civil War Medi-cine on East Patrick Street for one of the nation’s foremost exhibits of pe-riod medical care.

Insider tip: Brewer’s Alley, on North Market Street, and the National Museum of Civil War Medicine will be premiering the latest Civil War brew, available at Brewer’s Alley on July 5, and bottled on July 8. The new brew, aptly named Ransom, is a Gose beer and described as “tart and refreshing.”

Other activitiesHagerstown, Md., marks its own

Saved by ransom from the Confederate torch 150 years ago, just before “the battle that saved Washington,” you can visit the historic towns of Middletown and Frederick, plus Monocacy National Battlefield.

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Commemorating the crucial Battle of Monocacy this JulyClimactic Frederick, Md., fight saved the nation’s capital

Reenactors fire artillery pieces.

Visitors to Monocacy National Battlefield learn the fine points of a canon.

Gen. Lew Wallace faced Confederate Gen. Jubal Early at Monocacy.




ransom experience on July 4 at the Hagerstown Fairgrounds with a full size replica of the CSS Hunley submarine, living history, and museum ar-tifacts. It’s all followed by the city’s annual July 4th celebration and fireworks.

Also over the July 4th weekend, Harpers Ferry National Historical Park marks its role in the pre-lude of the Battle of Monocacy and in helping to delay Jubal Early’s 1864 march on Washington. Activities include living history, ranger programs, and family/youth activi-ties.

The following week-end, July 12-13, Rose Hill Manor Park in Frederick hosts living history en-campments, demonstra-tions, artillery, sutlers, hands-on activities for children, and manor tours.

Middletown also com-memorates its ransom on July 12 from 10:00am-5:00pm with a living his-tory ransom program, walking tours, new inter-pretive exhibits, period music, dancing, docent-led carriage rides, and local food and wine.

The end of slavery in Maryland will be com-memorated July 12-13 at Monocacy National Battlefield, with U.S. Col-ored Troops living histo-rians, musical concerts,

archeology programs, and talks on Gen. Lew Wal-lace and emancipation.

For more informationFrederick Co. Tourism: visitfrederick.org/civil-war-150th

Heart of the Civil War: heartofthecivilwar.org

Monocacy National Battlefield: nps.gov/mono

Carroll County offers an experience

at every turn

800-272-1933 | www.CarrollCountyTourism.org

Deer Creek Fiddlers’ ConventionCarroll County Farm Museum

WestminsterJune 14 | 9:30am–8:30pm

Taneytown Wine and Jazz FestivalTaneytown Memorial Park

TaneytownJune 21 | 11:00am–4:00pm

There’s always something new to see and do in Calvert County, Maryland.

Don’t miss these upcoming events.

June 1 Children’s Day on the Farm www.jefpat.org

June 1 North Beach House & Garden Club Tour and Art Show www.northbeach.org

June 7-8 Southern Maryland Sun & Music Festival www.somdsunmusicfest.org

June 7-29 Nature’s ARTcade www.calvertparks.org

June 8 Patuxent River Wade-In www.jefpat.org

June 14 Chili in the Garden and Tobacco Trail Antique Auto Meet www.annmariegarden.org

June 14 Eat•Drink•GoLocalNorthBeach www.northbeachmd.org

June 21 End Hunger Dragon Boat Festival www.endhunger.org

July 3 FireworksovertheBay www.chesapeake-beach.md.us

July 4 Solomons Fourth of July Celebration www.solomonsmaryland.com

July 18-20 ScrewpileLighthouseChallengeRegatta www.solomonsmaryland.com

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CelebrationSTAR-SPANGLEDCalvert County War of 1812 Bicentennial

Commemorating the 200th Anniversary of the Battle of St. Leonard Creek, June, 1814

Saturday & Sunday, June 21-22, 2014

This event is a joint project of the Friends of Jefferson Patterson Park, the Calvert County Board of County Commissioners and the Calvert County Chamber of Commerce and has been financed in part with state funds from the Maryland War of 1812 Bicentennial Commission, an instrumentality of the State of Maryland. However, the contents and opinions do not necessarily reflect the views or policies of the Maryland War of 1812 Bicentennial Commission.

FREE Event: Battle Re-enactments, Living History, Period Sports, Dance, Music, Lectures, Sutlers, Food, Drink, Crafters, Military Encampments, and so much more!

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1812 Fair and Re-enactment

Saturday, 6-10 p.m. $10 AdmissionTavern NightSponsored by: Calvert County Board of County Commissioners

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You may know that Petersburg, Va., just south of Richmond, endured the longest military siege ever on American soil. A quote from Leverette Bradley, a Union soldier with the 1st Massachusetts Heavy Artillery, says a lot: “I would not believe before I came here that man was capable of enduring so much.”

Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant was determined to destroy the rail lines that supplied the Con-federacy, and five of those significant railroads converged in Petersburg. In 1864, Grant moved to tie a noose around Petersburg to starve Rich-mond, the Confederate capital. This was the be-ginning the Siege of Petersburg. During the siege,

this commercially important Virginia town was pummeled by artillery and rifle fire for nearly 10 months. Plaques on many buildings indicate they were hit by artillery during the siege. (Southside Railway Depot, built in 1858, amazingly still looks today like it does in Civil War-era photographs.)

The Siege Museum, created in 1972, originally was built as a commodities exchange and was a symbol of Petersburg’s commercial success. The museum’s focus is on the civilian experience in Pe-tersburg during the Civil War. Exhibits help visi-tors understand what the constant bombardment meant for those civilians. Old Towne Petersburg is so compact and well preserved that it’s easy to grasp the hardship its residents suffered.

Centre Hill Museum is a 19th-century mansion that displays how 1 percent of the population lived. Visitors should note the three styles of ar-chitecture, original millwork, and period antiques and artifacts.

Blandford Church, erected in 1735 as a colo-nial parish church on the city’s highest, is one of seven churches in the nation where every window is a work of Louis Comfort Tiffany. Every year on June 9, the church’s Ladies Memorial Association conducts a service commemorating the Battle of the Old Men and Young Boys who, on June 9, 1864, successfully defended the city during the first Union Army attack.

The Petersburg Visitors Center is located in the Historic Farmers Bank, the state’s oldest bank that was actually built as a bank. From here, visitors can take a walking tour that makes Petersburg’s historic buildings and characters come alive.

A part of the city is known as Pocahontas, for it was once Powhattan Indian land. The largest com-munity of free blacks lived here prior to the Civil War, too.

After touring, visitors can duck into an eatery, such as Parsley & Moran, right next door to the Oak Antique Mall, or the Blue Willow Tea Room. At Penniston’s Alley An-tiques, adjacent to the Blue Willow Tea Room, there is a Petersburg Collection of Beyer’s Choice Carolers, hand-blown German orna-ments, and other unique items.

Modern-day “re-constructionists” have seized a once tornado-ravaged Old Town Petersburg and rebuilt it into a thriving arts community filled with galleries, music venues, and restaurants. This vibrant scene includes the Petersburg Area Art League galleries and is contained within about 10 blocks of almost

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Centre Hall Mansion displays how the most affluent lived during the period.

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exclusively red brick buildings that survived the Civil War siege.

Visit the battlefieldsThe Petersburg National Battlefield operates

units east and west of here. On July 30, rangers will mark the Battle of the Crater with special talks and military demonstrations.

The National Park Service’s Five Forks Battle-field, west of Petersbsurg in Dinwiddie County, and the privately owned Pamplin Park and Mu-seum of the Civil War Soldier, tell compelling sto-ries of the breakthrough that led to the war’s end. Pamplin Park, which holds a Civil War Discovery Camp on June 21, shows a real family’s antebel-lum plantation life. Will Greene, executive direc-tor, said that “Pamplin’s property includes some of the best preserved earthworks anywhere.” The high-tech exhibits at the museum offer sights and sounds of battle and personal diary accounts of soldiers. A new exhibit depicts the experience of a wounded soldier.

History and moreThe groundbreaking Lee’s Retreat: Petersburg

to Appomattox Civil War Trail spurred 13 localities in the commonwealth to form “Virginia’s Retreat.” This partnership promotes the area’s remarkable history, as well as its outdoor recreation opportu-nities on lakes, rivers, and state parks; its cycling, kayaking, and race-car driving events; and its arts, music, and local festivals. Coming up are the Wine and Roses Festival on June 7 at the Southern Virginia Botanical Gardens and the Virginia Canta-loupe Festival on June 13 in Halifax.

The Wilson-Kautz Civil War Trail highlights the Union cavalry raids that disrupted railroad depots

in southside Virginia in 1864. The Virginia’s Re-treat partnership provides helpful driving tour in-formation through farmland and small towns along the trail. The Battle of Staunton Bridge, where once again the “old men and young boys” of the com-munity defeated Union cavalry, will be commemo-

rated at the state battlefield park, June 21-22, near the Charlotte County home of American Revolution firebrand Patrick Henry.

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Outdoor recreation abounds in the Columbia-Montour regionEnjoy horseback riding, kayaking, and camping adventures

Brace’s Stables provides adventures on land while Susquehanna River Adventures gets you on the water in the Columbia-Montour region.

Columbia-Montour Tourism

From 1937 to 1984, the city of Lock Haven, Pa., was an employment hub for people of the surrounding areas because of the Piper Aircraft Cor-poration. While Piper Cubs are no longer manufactured there, the Sen-timental Journey event brings a bit of local history back to the area.

“The Piper Aircraft Corporation,” says Peter Lopes, who promotes Clinton County, “was known as ‘the Henry Ford of aviation history’ and the manufactured plane was known as ‘the plane that taught the world to fly.’ Two out of three aviators learned to fly in Piper aircraft. They were easy to operate and cheap to own.”

Aviation history will be brought back to life June 17-21 for the 29th Annual Sentimental Journey fly-in. Last year, more than 350 pilots from around the globe flew their cherished Piper Cub aircraft — and others bearing names such as Cher-okee, Aztec, Cheyenne, Comanche, Navajo, and Pawnee — over the

skies of Lock Haven. Filling the sky with shades of yellow, these aviation enthusiasts later showed off their aircraft for public viewing at the Wil-liam T. Piper Memorial Airport field.

A daily Flightplan pass is avail-able for $8 per adult and $4 for ages 13-17. Activities include seminars, displays, fly-bys, live bands, tours, and a corn roast. (sentimentaljour-neyfly-in.com)

Piper Aviation MuseumOnsite in the former Piper Aircraft

engineering building, the Piper Avi-ation Museum is dedicated to pre-serving the history of Piper Aircraft. “The relics and people who worked here (at Piper) are what we at the museum wish to preserve,” says for-mer Piper engineer, John Bryerton. “The facility includes a searchable, research aviation library.”

Vintage airplanes command your attention once inside the vast mu-seum layout. There are many static

and archival history displays, as well as interactive displays such as the flight simulator that allows you to practice taking-off in and landing your own Piper plane.

The museum is open daily. Admis-sion is $6 per adult and $3 for ages 7-15. (pipermuseum.com)

Concerts on the riverThe west branch of the Susque-

hanna River flows mightily through the city of Lock Haven.

Along the top of the levee built to protect the city from flooding, a 2.25-mile river walk provides a fun, active way to run, walk, or meander from Lock Haven University to the Piper Airport.

Along the way an amphitheater provides seating for the Concerts on the River series every Sunday eve-ning at 6:30pm during the summer. Boats and canoes also dot the water to listen to the concerts from the floating stage.

Summer theaterMillbrook Playhouse is a barn

theater that has operated as a profes-sional summer stock theater since 1963. The playhouse has staged hundreds of plays in this climate-controlled setting.

This summer, the family-friendly The Wizard of Oz kicks off the season on June 12-15 and 18-22 featuring the songs Over the Rainbow and Munch-kinland.

Happy Days, a New Musical, based on the ABC-TV series set in 1959 Milwaukee, features Richie, Fonzie, varsity sweaters, hula hoops, and jukeboxes.

It plays June 27-29 and July 2-6. Later summer shows include Little Shop of Horrors, Biloxi Blues, and Rounding Third. (millbrook playhouse.org)

Learn moreClinton Co. Tourism: clintoncountyinfo.com

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Sentimental Journey Fly-in brings aviation history to lifeConcerts and theater also summer highlights in Clinton County

Concerts on a floating stage attract spectators on boats and on land.

Clinton Co. Tourism

Greene County is tucked into the extreme southwest corner of Pennsylvania and, throughout its existence, has been de-fined by its natural beauty.

Located south of Pittsburgh, and bordered on two sides by West Virginia, Greene County has the rolling topography of the Appalachian Mountains and quiet solitude for those look-ing to escape the hustle of urban life.

And that’s exactly the appeal Greene County tourism offi-cials are looking to bank on.

A consortium of Greene County communities located along the Monongahela River are trying to tie tourism to this major waterway. The Monongahela — or “Mon” as the locals call it — flows north to Pittsburgh joining with the Allegheny River to form the Ohio River. The Mon also forms the eastern border of Greene County.

Along with acting as a natural outdoor recreation magnet, the Monongahela River has defined the communities along its banks for generations. Boroughs like Greensboro and Rices Landing have historic ties to the river.

“It focuses the river as a recreational destination,” said Elizabeth Menhart, who promotes the county.

Jumping off for river adventuresThe riverside communities are also great jumping-off

points for river adventures, with outfitters, boat launches,


1-877-280-TOUR (8687)www.GoGreeneCounty.org

June 1, July 6, Aug. 3 & Sept. 13Flashlight Drags, Waynesburg

June 13-14 Riverfest, Rices LandingJuly 15-19 Jacktown Fair, Wind Ridge

July 29 Rain Day, WaynesburgAug. 3-9 Greene County Fair, Waynesburg

Aug. 16-23 Coal Show, CarmichaelsAug. 30 Art Blast on the Mon, Greensboro

Sept. 13 50’s Fest, Waynesburg

Discover these upcoming events:

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All-ages fun to be had along the Monongahela River

Communities along the Monongahela River in Greene County tie tourism to the river they share.

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help along the way. Choose from guided corral rides to wilderness rides and horseback camping par-ties. Pony rides are available for children.

Brace’s trail rides include the ap-proximately one-hour, four-mile Creek Ride, where riders take a leisurely trip to Fishing Creek and back enjoying a shaded tour of the beautiful riparian countryside.

There’s also a Mountain Ride that uses an old logging trail and a switchback trail to gently climb the nearby mountainside.

The mountain tour passes through sylvan forests with various breaks to observe breathtaking vistas.

A third ride, the Falls Ride, is a six-mile exciting trail ride that trav-els part way up the mountain to pic-turesque Sullivan Falls.

Insider tip: When you go, be sure to dress for the weather and wear

long pants and closed shoes (no san-dals or flip flops).

Susquehanna River kayaking and camping

Family-owned Susquehanna River Adventures based along the Susque-hanna River in Bloomsburg provides river adventures. Owner Chris Ehmer and his family have 40 years of experience on the river.

Ehmer has more than 40 acres of privately owned island property for camping and fishing in the middle of the river. The private seasonal camp-sites allow guests a bit more leeway than most government or public campgrounds. Visitors can bring their own equipment or rent gear from Susquehanna River Adventures.

The Susquehanna River and the islands are home to bald eagles, beavers, deer, otters, wild turkeys, and many other Pennsylvania wild-life species. The island sites are close to civilization, but also provide wilderness opportunities for outdoor adventurers.

“We have one of the most unique

kayak experiences on the Susque-hanna River,” Ehmer said. “Our private islands and our personal catering to the visitors’ every need makes our adventure a one-of-a-kind experience.”

Susquehanna River Adventures’ guided river tours operate rain or shine during late spring, summer, and early fall. The outfitter transports your gear to the island campsites. This eliminates the possibility of an unexpected dump in the river that results in wet gear. A dip in the river is refreshing, but wet equipment will ruin an otherwise perfect outing.

Insider tip: If you go during spring or fall, avoid wearing cotton gar-ments. Cotton absorbs moisture and in turn chills the body. Dress in lay-ers with wicking undergarments, a middle layer of fleece, and an outer garment that will block the wind and keep out rain.

Learn moreBrace’s Stables: bracesstables.com

Columbia-Montour Tourism: itourcolumbiamontour.com

Susquehanna River Adventures: kayaktheriverpa.com

The Gettysburg Festival is changing it up a bit as it returns for its seventh season, June 11-15, in the historical Pennsylvania town. While the festival will be shorter than prior versions, it still packs 50 live performances on seven stages and seven art shows into the five-day run. And that doesn’t in-clude the culinary arts, youth, and fringe events.

Musical acts include rock, bluegrass, classical, brass, and country, with singer/songwriter Eric Paslay headlining Thursday. The Secret Garden (The Musical) will be presented several times dur-ing the festival. The Blues BBQ returns with deli-cious ‘cue and all the fixin’s, followed by the roots/blues music of Nate Myers and Octavia.

While most venues are on the campus of Get-tysburg College, Sunday brings Stephen Lang and his one-man show Beyond Glory to the stage of the

historic Majestic Theatre. Land, a stage and screen star, presents the stories of eight different Medal of Honor recipients from World War II, Korea, and Vietnam, rendering first-hand accounts of valor which resulted in the nation’s highest military award.

Insider tip: This would make a great Father’s Day gift.

Fine art, photography, and plein air exhibits and activities dot the streets and galleries of Get-tysburg. The popular History Meets the Arts event brings festival-goers face to face with 40 painters, sculptors, artisans, and award-winning authors. The event features original paintings, sculpture, contemporary-made 18th-century period accoutre-ments, author and artist presentations and sign-ings, and music.

The Edible Art Tour makes use of all five art venues on the Gettysburg College campus to present mouth-watering culinary creations by the area’s leading chefs and popular restaurants.

There’s also a Victorian Tea at Beech Springs Farm served in a beautifully restored 1867 barn by living historians.

Sixty lucky guests will be treated to three teas and a delicious five-course meal along with a light-hearted look at just how seriously the Victorians took their tea.

There are also a variety of youth art exhibitions and activities. The Fringe Festival features arts, Civil War encampments, and a host of additional activities.

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Gettysburg Festival packs more activities into fewer daysSeventh season retains popular activities

The rock band Foo Fighters, the hip hop group Outkast, and folk rock singer Jack Johnson will headline the Firefly Music Festival, June 19-22 in Dover, Del. The festival, just in its third year, has grown so popular that it added an extra day this year to the schedule.

Imagine Dragons, the Lumineers, Beck, Weezer, and Third Eye Blind are among the more than 100 art-ists and bands that will entertain. Some groups are returning from past years, including Girl Talk, Grou-plove, Twenty-One Pilots, Big Gigan-tic, and the White Panda.

“We have a large indie/rock-cen-tric presence, but also offer a very well-rounded lineup,” according to Jordan Diehl of Red Frog Events, a Chicago-based production company that puts on the festival.

Last year, some 65,000 fans from all over the country and world

attended the event, with the highest concentration from East Coast cities, including Baltimore and Washington.

Why is Firefly so special?

Besides booking acts that fans want to see, Diehl says it’s the festi-val setting that is so compelling. The event is held at The Woodlands of Dover International Speedway, a 90-mile drive from Washington.

The Woodlands is a 154-acre property adjacent to the NASCAR track.

“The festival is surrounded on all sides by woods, green grass, and lush trees, which all make for an ideal setting for watching your favor-ite artist,” says Diehl.

There are seven outdoor stages, including the Porch Stage, a pavilion.

A blanket on the grass is among seat-ing options for enjoying the music.

The name “Firefly” was chosen as the festival name because it conjures up a vision of “a perfect, epic sum-mer night spent outside with a group of friends,” says Diehl.

Beyond the music, there are many other on-site activities, she says.

“There are Hammock Hangouts, where you can take a break to relax among the woods; The Brewery, where you can sample Dogfish Head brews while watching live sports; and the Arcade, where you can play vintage video games for free.”

Dogfish Head Brewery, a festival partner, created a special brew for the festival, called Firefly Ale.

There are lots of food and bever-age options available, ranging from traditional festival food to vegan and gluten-free options, plus a farmers market, according to Diehl.

The Woodlands has camping fa-cilities for tents and campers, plus offers “Glamorous Camping”--tents with amenities provided by the staff, she says.

Camping and ticket packages are available. Lodgings also can be found at several hotels in the area.

Tickets are available only through the festival’s website, fireflyfestival.com, where you can also find Tree-house sessions, videos that introduce listeners to new and upcoming music performed by Firefly artists.

The FestivalWhat: Firefly Music Festival

When: June 19-22

Where: The Woodlands of Dover International Speedway, Dover, Del.

Tickets/info: $299 for regular general four-day pass; 312-262-6010, fireflyfestival.com


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restaurants, and hotels. The Mon also ties communities to-

gether, and the River Town Program initiative helps brand the region as a destination, said Ryan Belski, mayor of Rices Landing.

“We tried to combine the com-munities in our promotional efforts to emphasize their common strengths,” said Belski, who is also the organizer of the two-day Riverfest, to be held June 14-15, that features music, ven-dors, games, and fireworks.

RiverFest is just one of the events and festivals that can be used as the starting point for a weekend getaway. The Rain Day Celebration takes place July 29 in Waynesburg. The county also hosts two county fairs — true community staples in many rural communities — along with a week-long celebration of bi-tuminous coal, the black rock that was a foundation of Greene County industry. The summer events wind down in late August with Art on the Mon, hosted by the Nathanael Greene Historical Foundation.

Regardless of the event or activ-ity, Greene County is a great place for families to get away and experi-ence some country quiet or an active weekend, Menhart said.

The Warrior Trail follows paths used by Native American and early

European traders for more than 5,000 years. Starting on the banks of the Monongahela at Greensboro, the trail runs west to the West Virginia line.

Boaters — even the human-pow-ered kind — can take advantage of several public boat launches on the Monongahela River, including in Greensboro and Rices Landing.

For Bill McCormick, who owns a bed and breakfast along the Monon-gahela, the river is a destination in its own right. McCormick’s Captain’s Watch Inn has a canoe and kayak available for guests, and every year the hotel hosts kayak clubs who want a comfortable destination after a day out on the water.

“We also just like to set out on the porch and watch the river go by,” he said.

The two homes that make up the Captain’s Watch property were built in the 1850s by the owner of the Greensboro Pottery Company. Mc-Cormick, who acquired the property in 2000, has restored much of the original charm.

“Folks want to get off the beaten path,” he said. “You go back in time when you come here.”

“You can bring the whole fam-ily for activities in Greene County,” Minhart said. “It is all-ages fun. We have beautiful scenery, and we are a great place for people looking to get out in the country.”

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The American Mountain Theater, now in its eighth season, features the Sexton family, most of whom are related either by blood or marriage. Kenny Sexton is the amiable MC with the Southern drawl. Cast members come out to the lobby after perfor-mances to greet patrons.

The talented musicians and sing-ers perform all kinds of music, from rock ’n’ roll to country to gospel to patriotic. The band is supplemented with the Sexton Trio, soloists, and comic impersonators. Elvis, the Beach Boys, Tina Turner, and Mi-chael Jackson are among the be-wigged performers who may turn up.

More than 200 shows a year are performed in the 527-seat audito-rium between April and December. Besides the premier two-hour show, there are a “History of American Music” show, a Southern Gospel and Bluegrass concert series, and Christ-mas Extravaganza.

The theater has a concession area, and a gift shop offering apparel, sou-venirs, CDs, and DVDs. The theater

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The Gandy Dancer Theatre, which opened in 2011, includes dinner with the two-hour show.

Patrons sit at long tables for plated meals before settling in for an en-joyable, high-energy mix of music, songs, and dance.

The band features a variety of musical genres, including country, gospel, pop, and patriotic, and spot-lights tunes from the 1950s to today. Comedy bits add to the fun.

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Today’s culinary question: Which U.S.-based chain of full-service eateries employs more than 7,300 culinary specialists, operates nearly 300 na-tional and international locations, and serves more than 92 million meals a year on a food budget of $441 million?

The United States Navy.More specifically, the United States Navy’s

Naval Supply Systems Command, or NAVSUP. Headquartered in Mechanicsburg, Pa., NAVSUP feeds Navy personnel on 155 surface ships, 76 submarines, 10 aircraft carriers, and 53 ashore gal-leys. While navies once subsisted largely on salt beef, salt pork, and ships biscuits, today’s sailors enjoy an exponentially improved menu prepared by carefully trained culinary specialists.

“Nothing impacts sailors on a day-to-day basis more than the food they eat,” said Rear Adm. Jona-than Yuen, who commands the whole operation. “Today’s Navy chefs are trained in more culinary skills than ever before, and as a result, our sailors can enjoy more from-scratch, home-style comfort foods and bakery products.”

The recent Sea/Air/Space 2014 Exposition at National Harbor enabled NAVSUP to highlight its culinary specialists and gave the Navy’s top chefs a chance to show off their skills to the public.

“Our culinary specialists are generally 17 to 22 year olds, some with a little experience,” said Cmdr. Danny King, who directs the Navy’s food service. “They go through a number of different levels of advanced culinary training. … The first four years is a trying test. The second term is bet-ter.”

Cooking for the White HouseNavy personnel run the White House Mess and

regularly cook for the Joint Chiefs of Staff. For the

expo, NAVSUP brought several members of its culinary competition team to demonstrate their award-winning recipes. The 2014 Navy Culinary Arts Team — 17 sailors representing 15 afloat and shore commands — recently competed at the 39th Annual Military Culinary Arts Competitive Train-ing Event at Ft. Lee, Va. The weeklong event, one of largest culinary competitions in North America, is sanctioned by the American Culinary Federation and showcases the talents of military chefs from all branches of the U.S. Armed Forces.

Pan-fried red snapper with green pea risotto, warm spinach salad, glazed carrots, and pea puree hardly seem standard issue, but it is one of the meals that members of the team prepared and presented at the expo.

“Our culinary specialists use the Armed Forces Recipe Card System that holds more than 2,000 recipes,” explained King. “It ensures tried and tested nutritional meals, capable of being pre-pared onboard a ship.”

King emphasized that the training is transport-able to civilian life. Spc. Ian Brown’s pan-seared salmon with a root vegetable medley and steamed greens, an example of the meals that he regularly serves to the vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, would easily fit into an upscale restaurant’s menu. The filet was perfectly done and the earthi-ness of the root vegetables and greens contrasted well against the milder salmon.

“Food (in the Navy) has gone through trends, the same as industry,” said King. “Reducing labor costs is one of those trends. We have come to find out that ‘scratch’ cooking is better and can save money. Plus, the sailors love it.”

U.S. Navy Recipe for Beef StewCourtesy of the Naval Supply Systems Command

8 portions, 1 1/4 cup each1 1/2 pounds beef for stewing, diced, raw2 1/2 cups water1 cup canned, diced tomatoes1 1/2 teaspoons salt1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper1/2 teaspoon garlic powder1/2 teaspoon thyme, ground or leaf10 ounces or 2 1/2 cups carrots, fresh, sliced4 ounces onions, fresh, quartered2 1/2 cups potatoes, fresh, medium diced5 1/2 tablespoons all purpose flour1/2 cup cold waterPlace beef, water, tomatoes, salt, pepper, gar-

lic, and thyme in a four-quart stock pot. Bring to a boil, then reduce to a slow simmer. Simmer for about 1 2/3 hours, or until beef is tender. Add carrots to beef mixture, cover, and continue to simmer for 15 minutes. Add celery, onions, and potatoes, and stir. Cover, bring back to a sim-mer for about 20 minutes or until vegetables are tender. In a separate bowl, combine the flour and water into a paste. Slowly pour paste, while stir-ring, into the simmering stew. Return stew to a simmer and cook for an additional five minutes.

Reed Hellman is a professional writer from Alber-ton, Md. Visit his website at reedhellmanwordsmith.com, or email your questions and comments to [email protected].

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The annual Finger Lakes International Wine Competi-tion took place March 29-30. Held in Rochester, N.Y., every spring, is the only wine competition in the world where all the proceeds go directly to one charity. That charity is Camp Good Days and Special Times, a non-profit group started more than 30 years ago.

The organization provides camp for children and families from around the world who have been touched by cancer and other life threatening challenges. All folks involved with this competition (judges, organizers, volunteers, etc.) do-nate their time.

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Medal results and best of showIn the end, the judges’ results included 139 double gold,

283 gold, 1,465 silver, and 1,293 bronze. The best of show is judged after the competition is over. Here, specific judges, highly skilled with a particular style/grape, pick the best wine of its kind from the double gold medal winners. In other words, the very “best of the best” are singled out.

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On May 3, the competition held its charitable gala wine auction and dinner to give out the awards. Once again this year, all judges were asked to bring two special bottles from their own cellars to be auctioned off as the “judges’ special collection.”

With 14 years under its belt, this competition has reached a pinnacle beyond what anyone could have imagined. It keeps getting bigger and better. So much so, that it may have to be extended for an extra day in the future.

Of course, any large event like this is only as good as the people working. The tireless efforts of Dave Male, Peter Parts, Ron Dougherty, Thomas King, and the amazing army of volunteers and judges should be commended.

For more details on the Finger Lakes International Wine Competition, visit fliwc.com. Donations to Camp Good Days in general are always welcome. (campgooddays.org)

“The Wine Doctor” is Edward Finstein, award-winning author, TV/radio host, renowned wine journalist, international wine judge, professor of wine, and consultant. Website: www.winedoctor.ca; Twitter: www.twitter.com/drwineknow; blogspot: www.thewinedoctor.blogspot.com; Doc’s Grape-vine: www.winedoctor.ca/docs-grapevine.html; Facebook: www.facebook.com/EdwardDocFinstein?fref=ts


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