Virginia and Shenandoah Valley Festivals and Events Guide
A list of regional happenings including the Shenandoah Spring Festival in Luray on May 14 with live music and a duck race, the 25th Virginia Wine and Craft Festival in Front Royal on May 21, Strasburg Mayfest May 21–22, and the Shenandoah National Park Rededication June 25. Also scheduled are the Oak Leaf Bluegrass Festival July 24 in Luray Caverns, Civil War reenactment September 10–11, Edinburg Ole Time Festival September 17–18, and Elkton Fair October 15–16. Organizers list contact numbers and websites.
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Main Street
Luray
Luraydowntown
Front Royal
The
Chamber of Commerce
Oak Leaf
Luray Caverns
Shenandoahmusictrail.com
Elkton
B Street
Henry Avenue
Evicted for Shenandoah Park Birthplace Recalled by Blosser
Shenandoah National Park displaced at least 500 families in the 1930s as land was purchased or condemned. Vonnie Blosser, born in 1933 at Skyland, recalls eviction from Hawksbill Gap and her family’s struggles and ties to the land.
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Shenandoah National Park
Vonnie Blosser
Hawksbill Gap
Skyline Drive
Blue Ridge Hollows
Blosser
Stanley
Skyland
Park
Elmer
Mattie Bates
George Pollock
Ida
Melanchthon Cliser
Panorama Gap
Cliser
Mountaineer
Luray
William H. Shippen
Washington Star
E.L. Lucas
Page County
H.W. Bertram
University of Virginia Press
Shenandoah
Commonwealth of Virginia
Walter Dealon Taylor
W.D. Or Dealon
Red Gate Road
Taylor
Lucinday Hester Taylor
Walter Deaton Taylor
Mattie Taylor Bates Sours
Vonnie G. Bates Blosser
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Strasburg
King Street
Big Meadows
Luraycaverns.com
Edinburg
Edinburgoletimefestival. Org
Rast and
Robert Nicholson
Mountain Home
Ranger Gibbs
Melanie Hamel
VA & WV
Bsa aRel Nace
Sania
Discount Depot
East Stonewall Drive
Front Royal, VA
Ciara
Rainsuit
P.V.C
San A Danlern
Mother Nature