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Festivals that are happening in Va.  Just a thought I'd post in case anyone is interested in doing a Meet/Run/Gathering for Festival Fun.  It's not all about ice cream....I like funnel cakes too  :icon_razz:

July 18-19, 2009  34th Annual Pork, Peanut & Pine Festival
Surry, Virginia
Pork, peanut and pine have been Surry County's cash crops for nearly 400 years.

July 24, 2009  Virginia Cantaloupe Festival
Halifax County Fairgrounds, Virginia

July 24-25, 2009  Chincoteague Island Blueberry Festival
Chincoteague Island, Virginia

July 31-Aug 2, 2009  20th Annual Bayou Boogaloo & Cajun Food Festival
Norfolk, Virginia
Norfolk's annual love-fest with New Orleans' special spirit and unique Bayou culture.  This popular 3-day festival delivers the heart and soul of Louisiana to visitors to Town Point Park in true Cajun and Creole style.

August 6, 2009  David & Prescott Gourmet Getaways
Hume, Virginia
Gourmet Getaways Author Joe David and Former PBS Chef Jill Prescott are offering a meat, seafood and desert food tasting paired with wine at the Philip Carter winery. The food will be served with, without sauce to demonstrate why non-traditional wine-food pairings are often recommended when sauces are added.

September 19-20, 2009  The Great Grapes Wine, Arts & Food Festival
Reston, Virginia
Join us this year for Northern Virginia's fastest growing wine festival – Great Grapes! Over 200 Wines and 20 Virginia Wineries.

September 19-20, 2009  Virginia Wine Festival
Centreville, Virginia
The Virginia Wine Festival has a new home! Celebrate Virginia’s fabulous wines with tastings and educational seminal seminars at the number one wine event of the season at Bull Run Regional Park Special Events Center in Centreville. A collectors paradise, the festival features over 50 wineries pouring from more than 350 vintage.

October 10, 2009  Chincoteague Oyster Festival
Chincoteague, Virginia
Marks the arrival of the oyster season. An all you can eat festival - oysters prepared just about every way imaginable, steamed crabs, clam fritters, clam chowder, hush puppies, potato salad, cole slaw, hot dogs, and various beverages. Live entertainment, Raffle. This is an advance ticketed event. Tickets will sell out. There are usually no tickets sold at the gate. The oyster festival is held rain or shine.

October 11, 2009  Taste of Culpeper
Culpeper, Virginia
Featuring the very best in local cuisine from the region's unique restaurants and caterers. 15 Virginia wineries will be represented offering tastings and displays. Other activities of the day include children's activities, live entertainment, and artist displays.

October 11, 2009  Whitetop Mountain Sorghum Molasses Festival
Whitetop, Virginia
Always the 2nd Sunday in October at the Mount Rogers Fire Dept. Hall on US 58.

We have not been to the Pork, Peanut, and Pine Festival in years.  Will really try hard to pencil that one in for Sunday.

I have lived here for years and was never aware of so many festivals!