Arthurdale Heritage, Inc.

New Deal Festival
Come Celebrate Arthurdale's 73rd Birthday
1934-2007
 Saturday July 14, 2007: 8 am - 6 pm
$5.00 General Admission - Children 12 & Under FREE
 

Plan to come and spend the day with us.

3rd Annual
 Beth Bonner Memorial
 5K Run & 2 Mile Walk
 through Historic Arthurdale
8:00 - 8:45 am Registration
9:00 am Race begins
10:30 am: Awards Presentation
Registration Application (pdf)
Race #3 in the
 Morgantown Area Grand Prix
 Sprint Series
 


Official Race Results
 will be Posted on this site
5th Annual NDF Car & Antique Tractor Show
1 - 3 pm Registration
3:00 pm Show Begins
4:30 pm Presentation of Trophies
&
 Cruise Around Arthurdale
Antique / Craft Market Opens
AHI Craft Shop Opens
10:00 am 
Breakfast Food Service
in Center Hall
8:30 am - 10:30 am
Sausages, biscuits, danish, fruit,

Festival Food Service
in Center Hall
 Noon - 3 pm
BBQ Chicken dinners
Museum Tours Begin
Noon
     
Appalachian Blacksmith
 Association
demonstrations
 begin in
The Forge
 at 10:00 am

ABA Website

Tours of the Historic Arthurdale Inn by Hospice Care Corporation
11:00 am - 3:00 pm
Last tour begins at 2:00 PM

Hospice Care Corporation Website

Lecture Series:

12:30 pm: Lecture & Book Signing
Gretchen Laskas
The Miners Daughter

2:30 pm: Lecture & Book Signing
Amanda Griffith Penix
"A Photographic History of Arthurdale"

4:30 pm: Lecture & Book Signing
Amanda Griffith Penix
"A Pictorial History of the Homestead Community Program"

Artisan Demonstrations

Potters, Weavers, etc.

10:00 am - 2:00 pm

The Morgantown Fiber Guild & AHI will be raffling off the Woven Shawl made at last year's New Deal Festival
 

Be sure to get a ticket or two

Drawing Saturday afternoon

Entertainment

Center Hall Stage

Noon: Tupelo Honey
1:30 pm: Mountain Echoes - Storytelling
2:00 pm: Brother Short
3:30 pm: Eleanor Roosevelt
(as portrayed by Patty Cooper)
4:00 pm: Norfolk & Southern

Car Show Stage Performance

1:00 pm: Lori Rankin
3:00 pm: The Riggins Brothers


A shuttle bus will be available to transport persons to and from the different New Deal Festival locations such as the Center Hall, the Inn, and the School

For more information, contact:

AHI at 304-864-3959 or
ahi@arthurdaleheritage.org