Handmade & Homegrown

Join us at Crossroads Institute for Carroll County's first Farm 2 Fork experience!

Friends of Wilderness Road State Park invite you to participate in this year’s Heritage Festival activities on October 12, 13, and 14. You can experience the fall season along the Wilderness Road in the early years of our Nation’s history, discovering how settlers prepared for the coming winter. The historic Martin’s Station offers educational demonstrations for your enjoyment on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday: soap making, authentic music, a Longhunter’s camp, Cherokee warrior’s camp, an 18th century market, and much more.

Be sure to checkout the Abingdon Crooked Road Music Festival! It starts on October 5th at Latture Field in Abingdon with a Youth Music Concert featuring Iron Mountain Ridgerunners, Adam McPeak & Mountain Thunder and The Wright Kids. On October 6th, at Latture Field there will be music featuring Junior Sisk and Ramblers Choice, Whitetop Mountain Band, Seamus Connolly and much more. It will also include many workshops such as a Dance workshop and Singing Styles.

Held at the Bridle Creek School, this festival includes old-time music, dance, crafts and food.

Celebrate the 25th anniversary of the file, Dirty Dancing, at the Dirty Dancing Festival on August 11th in downtown Pearisburg. Activities include Children Activities, Mountain Lake Bus Tours, Dirty Dancing Indoor Movie Showing, Silent Auction, Log Dance Contest, Baby & Johnny Look-A-Like Contest, Dirty Dancing Lessons, Dirty Dance Competition, Talent Show, Live! Sound Express/The Legacy Band. Access to festival vendors, car cruise-in and many of the activities are FREE! Enter an activity or contest for just one ticket or $3!

On Saturday, March 24th, the work of juried, two-dimensional `Round the Mountain members will be showcased at Heartwood: Southwest Virginia’s Artisan Gateway.
In keeping with the mission of Heartwood, work displayed during the showcase will be themed to Southwest Virginia.
`Round the Mountain Members scheduled to participate include:

David Alexander
Claudia Brown
Kyle Buckland
Carolyn Deck
William Fields
Aileen Fletcher
Jarata
Ron McCall
Paula Melton
Dan Moore
Jerry Murphy
Patsy Phillips
Tom Richardson
Kimberly Simmons

The Stacey Grubb Band will perform at Heartwood on April 14th from 6:00pm to 9:00pm. Tickets will be for sale at the door for $10.00.

Don't miss Sunday Gospel Brunch on March 11th. Music will be provided by Frontporch Gospel and Brunch is served from 10am to 3pm.

You can view the weekly menu at:
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