New Deal Festival
Arthurdale, America's first New Deal homestead community founded by Eleanor Roosevelt in 1934, marks its heritage each summer with a festival of crafts, music, and living history at this nationally significant Preston County site.
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"Held in the historic Civil War village of Beverly, this traditional county fair features livestock competitions, 4-H exhibits, harness racing, and mountain community pageantry in the heart of the Tygart Valley."
Randolph County Fair
"Coinciding with the annual dam release that turns the Gauley River into one of America's wildest whitewater runs, this Nicholas County festival pairs world-class rapids culture with Appalachian music and community celebration."
Gauley Fest
"Clay County celebrates its status as the birthplace of the Golden Delicious apple with a festival honouring the variety first discovered here in 1905, featuring apple foods, heritage crafts, and small-town West Virginia hospitality."
Clay County Golden Delicious Festival
"Now in its 58th year, this Pendleton County heritage festival re-enacts the 1758 burning of Fort Seybert, stages a grand parade, jousting, muzzleloader contests, heritage teas, and a vast juried craft fair in the mountain town of Franklin."
Treasure Mountain Festival
"Now in its 73rd year, this South Branch Potomac Valley gathering preserves the agricultural and colonial heritage of Hardy County through antique machinery demonstrations, pioneer crafts, and heritage music in Moorefield."
Hardy County Heritage Weekend
"Kingwood's beloved festival celebrates the buckwheat crop that once defined Preston County's mountain agriculture, with buckwheat pancake feeds, a grand queen pageant, livestock shows, and one of northern WV's biggest parades."
Preston County Buckwheat Festival
"Buckley's beloved antique engine and tractor show preserves the mechanical heritage of Michigan's rural farming past, drawing enthusiasts from across the Midwest for four days of steam engines, threshing demonstrations, and old-iron camaraderie in a small northwest Michigan village."
Buckley Old Engine Show
"A moving annual commemoration in the tiny Johnson County village of Butler, which was deliberately flooded by the Watauga Dam in the 1940s, reuniting descendants and former residents to remember the lost original town now beneath Watauga Lake."
Old Butler Day Festival
"A single-day community heritage celebration in the heart of small-town Harrington, Delaware, honoring the agricultural and railroad history of this central Kent County market town."
Harrington Heritage Day
"A three-day antique power and heritage show in the small Marathon County village of Edgar, where steam engines, threshing, and old-time farm demonstrations preserve central Wisconsin's agricultural past."
Edgar Steam Show
"An annual celebration of Midway's Swiss immigrant heritage held over Labor Day weekend, featuring an outdoor craft fair, folk dancing, a parade, and Swiss cultural entertainment in the scenic Heber Valley."
Swiss Days
"Since 1968, St. Maries has kicked off Labor Day weekend by celebrating its logging heritage with axe throwing, crosscut competitions, pole climbing, a parade, and carnival, using folk hero Paul Bunyan as its mascot."
Paul Bunyan Days