Fall is a lot more than beautiful colors and cooler temps when you are in the mountains of western NC. It’s time for some unique and interesting festivals. There is something for everybody.
There is the Woolly Worm Festival for racing fans – that is if you like to race fuzzy caterpillars.
One of my favorite events in the area is the Valle County Fair in Valle Crucis. Sponsored by the Episcopal Church of the Holy Cross, it is a wonderful local event featuring homemade baked goods, entertainment (including clogging), and decent quality crafts, in a perfect pastoral setting. I try not to miss it. It’s always the third Saturday in October, the same mid-October weekend as Woolly Worm.
The Fair has become wildly popular, so go early; you will not only beat
It’s a great time of year to take a leisurely Sunday drive into Asheville for the annual HardLox Festival to celebrate Asheville’s Jewish Food & Heritage. This year the single-day Festival coincided with the start of Sukkot, the Feast of the Tabernacles. Under a brilliant blue sky, in Asheville’s Pack Square, we listened to traditional Jewish music, meandered among the booths featuring information as well as crafts and Judaica. Kids had a big play area, and parking and bathrooms were plentiful.
We learned about this festival first-hand from friends who
But what Jewish festival would be complete without food, and boy did they have food. It’s all very organized, a brochure explains what’s available and the prices, tickets are sold at a special booth, so it keeps the food lines moving quickly. There was pastrami, corned beef, chopped liver, bagels, Matzo Ball soup, Kosher hot dogs, whitefish, babka, mandelbrot, etc, etc. Even Dr. Brown’s sodas. It was wonderful to have some of the delicious food we have dearly missed this summer.
For next year’s info, visit: www.hardloxjewishfestival.org and for more about Linda’s art: www.lindaaltshuler.com