This weekend everyone & their uncle seemed to be hosting some kind of event. I’d heard about the the Norfolk Pirate Festival, the Folklore Society of Greater Washington’s Glen Echo Festival, the Waynesboro Street Fair and a Nelson County Bluegrass Pasture Party. So much to do, so little gas. So much as I would have liked to go to the FSGW Festival, I opted for the bargain – the Strawberry Festival thrown by the Methodist church in Stanardsville.
This festival started as a strawberry pancake breakfast 21 years ago. It grew into a 2 day affair with a daily parade, living history demos (yours truly held the fort for the colonial period), craft fair, live dance & music performances, classic car show and of course many many delicious strawberry deserts prepared by the members of the Methodist church. Well the economy has taken its toll here, so now its once again a one day affair with a strawberry pancake breakfast, various strawberry desserts through out the day, some music & clogging performances, a few vintage vehicles and some craft & public service displays.
The music area was too crowded for decent photos but the cars were a different matter.
This is a 1970 Mustang with an as sold engine.
A 1966 Mustang with a period performance engine – there is something wrong with a vintage plate on a car made the year I learned to drive!
A lovely & truly vintage Ford
This Chevy reminds me of the cars of my 50’s childhood – the color is certainly a hoot.
Greene being a very rural county, there were also vintage tractors in the show.
This guy seems totally unimpressed by it all.
The Greene Historical Society was also open. A very modest affair housed in the old county jail, it had very nice displays of everyday things – but was too crowed for pictures.
Back over by my house the Spring Hill Baptist Church was hosting their Tour de Greene. This is an bike race/tour with circuits laid out for 60, 40 & 20 mile rides. The 20 mile riders were finishing up as I got back from the Strawberry Fest. The registration fees all go to the Greene Habitat for Humanity housing projects.
These guys volunteered to get blogged. The 20 milers all seemed to be having a grand time of it. I had passed several groups of riders going to & from the strawberry fest, most were in road race gear except one group of 8 teens riding mountain bikes and wearing X Game stuff. Helmets were required of all by the Tour.
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