Yes, you asked for it, and here it is…your complete guide to this weekend’s fun, both family and adult-oriented (not that kind you sickos). While the new waterpark won’t be open yet, there is still tons to do. Things like book fairs, festivals, roof top beer, pie fights, strawberry picking and more await you after the break…
All Weekend Long
Green Valley Book Fair
Support our site sponsor and buy some books! Written about in Cooperative Living and hailed as “The best bookstore on the East Coast” according to US Airways’ Attache Magazine. Located just south of Harrisonburg, Virginia, in the heart of the beautiful Shenandoah Valley, the Green Valley Book Fair is a discount book outlet store featuring over 500,000 new books at incredible bargain prices. Save 60% to 90% off retail on over 30,000 different titles in more than 60 different categories – including fiction, history, health and self-help, children’s books, religion, science, sports, cooking, gardening, crafts, art, reference, nature and outdoors, and more.
Blues and Brew Festival at Wintergreen Resort
Listen to blues, drink beer, visit arts and crafts vendors and take in that fresh mountain country air we are famous for.
Tubing on the James
Grab your tube, truck, cooler, beer and friends and ride that river like you mean it. Or, have James River Runers take care of you.
Tartuffe
Live Arts presents this terrific French play.
Strawberry Picking
While Carter Mountain Orchard doesn’t have any apples at the moment, they graciously recommended you stop by Chiles Peach Orchard (pronounced like children, not chilies) to pick fresh strawberries. Check out our strawberry picking review here.
Friday, May 22nd:
Second Street Gallery and South Street Brewery’s Rooftop Charity Party
From 5:30 – 7:30 pm, head on over to the rooftop terrace of the City Center for Contemporary Arts. $10 buys you a cup and all the beer their keg can supply. Proceeds benefit Second Street Gallery’s programming costs for the upcoming season, including children and adult outreach workshops.
Friday’s After Five
Hogwaller Ramblers (MySpace) are playing for our pleasure. You can catch great beer, kettle corn, fresh donuts, Last Call Dogs (fancy food truck vendors)
Saturday, May 23rd
9th Annual Shenandoah Valley Beer & Wine Festival
From 11AM-7PM at the Massanutten Resort enjoy live entertainment, local beer, wine, food and crafts. You can buy tickets at the Harrissonburg-Rockingham Chamber of Commerce. Advance Tickets are $15, At the Gate are $20 and Designated Drivers are $10.
Farmers Market on Saturday morning
Get there early or face the wrath of high performance baby strollers, family dogs and everyone else fighting to get a honey bunch or freshly made donut.
Pools Open
That’s right, get out that bikini and sunblock and get ready for the water.
Sunday, May 24th
Cville Pie Down
Sunday May 24th, 1PM, at the Mudhouse Coffee Shop-experience the ultimate pie battle between The Food Geek (Brian J. Geiger) and St. Louis Working Mom (Marijean)
Did we miss anything? Comment/email the deets and we will gladly add them.
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The Valley Fest at Massanutten (on Rt 33) formerly the Massanutten Beer and Wine Festival
Saturday 11a – 7p-ish
updated, took me a while to get the right info.
Sunday night massive at escafé. Pre liquor ballin, memory erasing jump up featuring the auction ganked gravity speaker boxes and white light towers. Fyah!
So, there’s that.
The river is over 6 feet hence you will NOT be tubing/kayaking/getting lashed on the river.James River Runners will not operate under current conditions.
Umm — fine fine — nice list, But: as far as tubing on the James goes (when possible) — bad idea to go on the weekend? Go when No One Else is there?
agreed. i went kayaking on the davidson river in north carolina in march 2000. for years my family tubed there in the summers, when it was so shallow my dad kept getting stuck. but the water was so voluminous & fast when i flipped over i couldn’t right myself & lost my paddle & it was the one time in my life i couldn’t hand roll & it turned out my skirt was too tight to wet exit. fortunately, our guide was some ways downriver & righted me. but it was super-scary.
Seriously… if you like to read, go to the Book Fair. You can get good, hardback books for like $4. Or HUGE coffee table type books for like $7.50. And they have a great selection of classics in paperback for around $3. And a ton of childrens’ books for the slow among us.
You can leave with a dozen hardcover books for around $50 (about what you would pay for two or three at retail).
(Is it “hardback” or “hardcover”? Both sound weird now after saying them a few times.)
I need more detail on the HUGE coffee table type books. By definition, a coffee table is a smallish piece of furniture. Are these huge books so large that they might overhang my diminutive vintage Ikea ‘Sporggrundjjin’ table, or are they actually shaped like a coffee table and could themselves be used as a safe and decorative cup repository?
I await enlightenment.
Hardy har. They’re books. They come in all types of sizes. So I guess it depends on what topic you want your book to be. But no one reads coffee table books anyway, right? So just buy one that looks nice AND fits whatever size mesa you gots.
i love those coffee table books.
I went last weekend. Place is epic if you like books. Walked out with a big bag of hardcover woodworking books and a bunch of fiction books I’ve been looking for for ages all under $30. Plus there were some ladies having a bakesale out front.
i bought 124 books for $425. and learned that sunday mornings are deserted. when i asked why, the cashier looked at me like i was a heathen & said, everyone’s in CHURCH.
Having lots of books is great. Until moving time. Then I hate them.
seriously. books are heavy.
lol orchid.
“they might overhang my diminutive vintage Ikea ‘Sporggrundjjin’ table,”
really, the size of coffeetable books depends on the subject. Like, umm, coffeetable books about Polar Bears are bigger than coffeetable books about Ptarmigans, coffeetable books about HM’s ego are larger than coffeetable books about HM’s checking account, and so on. Like the breast/Champagne-coupe standard, coffeetable books about coffeetables set the standard from which all other sizes are diminished (or augmented) variants.
@19 threaded comments are goodam bunk. @19 appeared approximately a coffeetable-book width away from @12, where I had hit “reply”.
Bonnie. Prince. Billy.
At. The. Beach.
Do. Not. Miss.
W00T! Pie Down! Samples for attendees! Register to win a FREE PIE! Watch me pie-whip The Food Geek!
Heh. Can’t believe it’s got its own website. Good luck to you and The Geek.
The two South Street brews featured on the rootop of Second Street Gallery this afternoon will be Satan’s Pony and the Pilsner. The event lasts from 5:30 – 7:30, only $10 for a cup and a scenic view.
The pilsner is really good. I had one (or five) last weekend. Much better than last year’s batch.