One October Weekend,
Two Fantastic Fall Festivals

50th ANNUAL SPRINGS
FOLK FESTIVAL

October 5-6
Springs, Pennsylvania

The highest village in Pennsylvania, alive with the splash of autumn’s vivid colors and surrounded by the clip-clop of the local Amish traveling the back roads will be the setting of the 50th Annual Springs Folk Festival.

The event is an opportunity for you and your family to experience how our forefathers worked and played by stepping back in time to a celebration of their arts and skills. Ongoing demonstrations will make the two days, Friday and Saturday, October 5 and 6, a unique adventure.

Stand aside and observe how the women labored preparing their daily bread and clothing for the family. Witness how men toiled splitting rails for fences, boiled down sugar water to make the sweet maple syrup, and hand flailed the grain. Listen to the sounds of the old steam engine as it gives off its lyrical toot and the beat of the engines of old time hay balers and a steam-powered shingle maker. Hear the laughter of the children as they ride the hay wagon through the nature trail. Solve the problem of what to buy that person that has everything by shopping among the beautiful hand-crafted items available for sale at the juried craft show.

To tickle your taste buds, fresh baked bread, warm from the stone outdoor bake oven, piled high with homemade butter and fresh apple butter, doughnuts that will melt in your mouth, funnel cakes to tempt the young and old alike, are all prepared on site. If you feel like a light lunch, sandwiches and bean soup are waiting for you. For heartier appetites a traditional PA Dutch meal of country sausage, fried potatoes, dried corn, and all the trimmings are yours for the asking, served cafeteria-style or family all-you-can-eat fashion.

Don’t miss the continual performances of the banjo and fiddle, hammered dulcimer, and the a cappella voices of local Mennonites and barber shop quartets located in the music building. Also, there is an original pageant depicting life in the area in the 1800s and early 1900s.

Be sure to check out the Springs Museum displaying life of the early Casselman Valley settlers and many other attractions too numerous to mention.

All of this for one price - $5.00 for adults, $2.00 ages 6-18 and under 6 free. Festival hours are 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM.

Springs is located on Rte 669 (Springs Rd.) Between Salisbury, PA (US 219 N) and Grantsville, MD (US 40, I-68 exit 19) in southern Somerset County, PA.

For more information call (814) 662-9202 or visit their website at www.springspa.org

The delicious aroma of simmering apples and spices mingles with the scent of wood smoke to tinge the air. Follow your nose and the tendrils of wood smoke down the country lane, and you will find nearly a dozen copper kettles bubbling over open fires.

Scores of volunteers are in constant motion, stirring the kettles, adding wood to the fires, testing the apple butter’s consistency. You have arrived at the production site of Burlington’s Famous Apple Butter.

Nearly 1,200 bushels of West Virginia apples, more than two tons of sugar, a secret blend of spices, and a huge measure of love go into the preparation of the 2,000 plus gallons of apple butter expected to be sold during the Burlington Old-Fashioned Apple Harvest Festival.

Take a stroll beneath the towering walnut trees; listen to the sounds of the meandering brook; browse the 3-acre flea market; visit the country-style “shopping mall”. Wander leisurely through three huge tents filled with unique, handmade, one-of-a-kind items. The “food court” features yummy apple delights, country ham sandwiches, funnel cakes, and many other country fair goodies.

Antique autos and tractors, the intricate stitching and beautiful color schemes lovingly combined into the many heritage quilts on display, a rousing parade, a toe-tapping fiddle/banjo/mandolin contest, games, pony rides, and a variety of other family oriented activities are showcased at the festival.

Admission to the two-day event is free of charge, as is the live country, bluegrass, and southern gospel music performed on-stage throughout the weekend. The festival’s signature attraction, Burlington’s  Famous Apple Butter, made the old-fashioned way—outdoors in open-air kettles.

The event is held on the Children’s Home Campus of Burlington United Methodist Family Services, Inc.

The festival is located on U.S. Routes 50/220 in Burlington, WV, and is easily reached by taking U.S. Route 50 west from I-81 or U.S. 220 south from I-68.

For more information, call (304)-788-1953 or visit  their website at www.bumfs.org