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2003-07-09 Thread Clive and Betty Ann Rice
Go to http://www.bedfordmainstreet.org - click on Calendar of Events - scroll down to Liberty Days - Blue Ridge Lace Guild will be demonstrating on the porch of historic Avenel on Saturday and Sunday. Secondly - Friend Husband and I are members of the Roanoke Fiddle and Banjo Club, and are involv

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2003-07-08 Thread Andrea Sommers
07, 2003 10:19 AM Subject: Re: [lace-chat] Festivals Do you have a recipe for avocado muffins that you would be willing to share? Jeanette Fischer, Western Cape, South Africa. - Original Message - From: Andrea Sommers To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 06 July 2003 20:00

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2003-07-06 Thread Westland District Library
Hokitika has a Wildfoods Festival, in March each year, when our town of 3000 swells to 20,000 people for a day! Wild (and wacky) foods of every kind are offered - seafood, wild fruit (blackberries, particularly) and meat from New Zealand's 'wild' (all introduced) animals... and other unusual it

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2003-07-06 Thread Andrea Sommers
The one that I like best is the Avocado Festival in Carpinteria, California, in October. Carpinteria is a sleepy little town most of the year not far from Santa Barbara. However, everybody turns out for the Avocado Festival. They have avocado everything. I kinda like avocado ice cream. I love

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2003-07-05 Thread Dearl Kniskern
dear spiders our festival is held in september and is called the wilderness trail festival for those who don't live in this area the wilderness trail was the first trail traveled by men like davy crockett and goes from richmond virginia on through the cumberland gap in western virginia to tenness

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2003-07-05 Thread Katrina Worley
On Friday, July 4, 2003, at 08:53 PM, Tamara P. Duvall wrote: On Friday, Jul 4, 2003, at 16:08 US/Eastern, H. Muth wrote: What other interesting and quirky festivals are there out there? Haven't *seen* it; left the area before it started... But, when I visited a lacemaking friend (and an ex-Arac

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2003-07-05 Thread Lorri Ferguson
Redmond, Washington...The small town where I grew up (now the larger town where Microsoft has its headquarters) has a Bike Derby Festival. The town is located near a lake and the roads surrounding the lake make a 26 mile circuit which is used for an international bike race. The Queen Candidate

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2003-07-05 Thread Jean Nathan
The Isle of Wight ( the island just off the south coast of mainland England) has a garlic festival in August, where they present garlic in guises you never thought possible. Somerset holds a series of evening carnivals during October/November each year. Carnial clubs are set up throughout the coun

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2003-07-05 Thread alice howell
At 01:08 PM 7/4/2003 -0700, you wrote: >What other interesting and quirky festivals are there out there? > Next week is our local annual celebration -- Turkey Rama. It started as the Pacific Coast Turkey Exhibition at a time when turkeys were one of the largest crops in the county. Now, I don't

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2003-07-04 Thread Bev Walker
Hi everyone Heather asked about festivals happening - there's a Lavender Festival in Langford next weekend. It doesn't sound highly original, except that this community is pulling itself out of a rut. It is a district outside the city (of Victoria) located more or less in a gravel pit, and was usu

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2003-07-04 Thread Tamara P. Duvall
On Friday, Jul 4, 2003, at 16:08 US/Eastern, H. Muth wrote: Well, it is obviously not me! I imagine all our American friends are out enjoying watermelon, parades and fireworks. I can *hear* the fireworks (sound like the howitzers of WWII films ), but am to far to see them. The rain held off all