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Shaffers BBQ, Cuz & Em, Tacos El Primo, Saucy Dog, and Rutz’s BBQ, as they feed you while you bet on and watch your favorite horses. The Shenandoah County Fair has spent over $2.3 million dollars to get ready for harness racing. In order to bring more people in, they have added a festival for all 5 weekends during harness racing. Check their website (shencofair.com) to see all the festivals planned. The Shenandoah County Chamber will also have a beer garden and North Mountain Vineyards will be on hand to keep your wine glass full, so make sure to bring your IDs. KnockBall will be there that weekend for those that may want to bounce around against someone. There is no entrance fee for this festival, so we ask that you come and eat a ton from all of our food trucks, while watching the Valley’s newest attraction.
Quilts “Inspired by the National Parks” Arrive at Museum
To borrow from Trey Amos, “The Art of the Natural” has arrived at the Virginia Quilt Museum in the form of 177 small quilts. These are not your grandmother’s quilts — they are art quilts, an art form born of the 1960s return to the earth and old ways, when people re-
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alized a new-found respect for a craftsman’s creative skills. These 177 art quilts are collectively known as “Inspired by the National Parks.” “Inspired” here does not mean a decorated copy. Nor are art quilts created from a pattern. They are fiber art built upon an original experience, idea, or imagery, using quilting techniques. The collection developed from a 2014 challenge put out to quilters by Donna DeSoto, a member of the Fairfax, Va., chapter of Quilters Unlimited. Since her previous “Inspired by the Beatles” challenge had been so successful, she asked participants to select a National Park and make a quilt to honor either its flora, fauna, or landscape. The resulting exhibit debuted at the Houston International Quilt Festival in Autumn 2015 and has shown at a few venues since. The quilts traveled here from Lake Roosevelt National Recreation Area at Coulee Dam, Wash., where they had spent the July 4th weekend on display. Now they are installed in their new space by Gloria Comstock, the Virginia Quilt Museum’s curator. She had carefully trained a crew of Museum volunteers in the care and handling of such a precious commodity. “On Thursday, the last few, in the bay window, were fitted together like pieces of a puzzle,”
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she explained, “but we got it!” The collection will now receive visitors in Harrisonburg through September 10. Some of this exhibit’s quilters are internationally known, others are novice quilters, but they all share “a passion for America’s Best Idea: The National Parks,” according to its website. If you’ve been to that park, you can reminisce. If you haven’t, you can dream of going. Barbara Roadcap, the Museum’s events coordinator commented, “The Parks exhibit is fantastic – I wish the world could see this!.” “Inspired by the National Parks” national tour schedule can be found at npscentennialquilts.com. For information or details about the exhibit, visit www.vaquiltmuseum.org. Virginia Quilt Museum was founded in 1995 and exists to celebrate quilting in Virginia. The Museum is a 501(c)3 non-profit funded solely through private donations, memberships, and revenue from admissions and museum shop sales. The Virginia Quilt Museum receives no federal or state funding.
Robbie Limon Plays The Library
The Friends of Handley Regional Library announce two performances to benefit Handley Regional Library. Popular artist Robbie Limon will make two solo appearances in the Handley Library Auditorium on September 8, and October 6. Tickets are $25 each and must be purchased in advance, either via the website, www. handleyregional.org, or by calling (540) 662-9041 ext. 31. The ticket price includes light refreshments and wine. The performance begins at 7:00 p.m., with the doors opening at 6:15 p.m. Come early to get a good seat! Robbie Limon is a talented singer-songwriter and