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2023 Festival & Event Guide

“Food and drink! Music and artworks! Seasonal celebrations galore! Pick your favorite festival theme and start planning.” Blue Ridge Country I was spending some time on Facebook today and saw a post about NC Mineral and Gem Festival. The post had a copy of the cover of the Blue Ridge Country Magazine 2023 Festival & Event Guide. For over a

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2012 Poster SFWV

State Fair of West Virginia brings western Virginia along for the ride

What would the West Virginia State Fair be, each year, without all of the Virginians in attendance? Would you believe…A lot less crowded? But the crowds are one of the things that make state fairs fun… FAIRLEA, W. Va.— Every August, thousands of people flock to the State Fair of West Virginia, and many of them don’t even call the Mountain State their home. 

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Flying W Farms

Reading through my rss feed today I saw this article about a local food purveyor in West Virginia. The piece had some nice things to say about Flying W Farms… I’d heard about Flying  W Farms in Burlington, West Virginia from my parents, who regularly bought butchered meat from them over the years. However, I’d never been to their store.  This summer,

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