The Fair raffle item is selected, the entertainment schedule is almost complete, and new vendors are preparing their wares for the Homes Tour & Crafts Exhibit, October 5, 6, and 7. Here are details.
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Music, dance, storytelling, and more!
 Besides the artisans demonstrating their crafts, regiments marching up and down Waterford village roads, children busy at their studies in a one-room schoolhouse, and a National Historic Landmark village in its autumn splendor, we bring you a variety of traditional music for your Fair enjoyment.
The entertainment schedule for the Fair is almost complete. If you plan your visit to enjoy the music of a favorite performer, here is where the instruments and voices will fill the air at this year's Fair.
Old School Stage
Saturday
Noon - Patent Pending
1 p.m. - Celtic Rhythm School of Dance
2 p.m. - Tara Lindhardt & Friends
3 p.m. - Danny Knicely, Aimee Curl & Bert Carlson
4 p.m. - Danny Knicely, Aimee Curl & Bert Carlson
 Sunday1 p.m. - Patent Pending
2 p.m. - Patent Pending
3 p.m. - Seldom Scene
4 p.m. - Seldom Scene
Schooley Mill
Friday, Saturday, Sunday
Ray Owen, storyteller
Mike Hansen
 Eighth Virginia Regiment, Civil War
reenactors
John Wesley Community Church
Saturday - Dearest Home, Civil War
music
Sunday, 2 p.m. - Mt. Zion United
Methodist Church Choir
Village Center
Saturday and Sunday - Mill Run Dulcimer Band
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Who to call with Fair questions?
 If you have general questions about the Fair, want to purchase Fair tickets by phone, would like an entry form for an exhibit, have any other general question you don't see the answer to on the Fair pages of our website, the answers are probably available at the other end of this line: 540-882-3018, ext. 117. This is the main office number for the Waterford Foundation.
If you are a Fair exhibitor with a particular question, want to arrange for a busload of fairgoers (and group tickets), or a Fair volunteer, you probably will want to speak directly to Fair staff. Dialing 540-882-3129 will get you the Fair Chairman, and 540-882 3659 will get you the Fair Assistant, at their offices, at the Corner Store in the village center.
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Where to get your advance Fair tickets
 Tickets for the 69th Annual Waterford Homes Tour & Crafts Exhibit can be purchased online, by phone, at our ticket outlets in the Washington metro area, and at both Foundation offices in Waterford--the Corner Store at 40138 Main Street, and the Old School, 40222 Fairfax Street.
An advance ticket for a day at the Fair is $15 (a savings of $2 over the price at the gate). And because you can't really do the Fair justice in a single day, we offer 2-day (at $26) and 3-day (at $39) tickets at discount prices too.
Group tickets also are available at $12 each (with a 20-ticket minimum); contact the Fair office to make arrangements for the group rate.
Outlets also are listed on the Fair brochure; we'll be happy to mail one to you (phone or email us), or you can download a copy from our website.
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12 Homes on Tour during the Fair
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The Joseph Janney House
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Twelve Waterford homes are open for tours during the 2012 Fair, and volunteers have set the schedule of open homes.
If you who plan your visit with Waterford home tours in mind, here is the schedule of open homes. For more information on each, visit the online tour page of our website.
Admission to homes on tour is free with your ticket to the Fair.
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Graham House
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Friday, October 5 The Pink House, Main Street Braden House, Second Street Joseph Janney House, Main Street Pierpoint House (Ratcliffe House), Main Street Asbury Johnson House, Second Street
Saturday, October 6 Marshall Clagget House, Main Street The Dormers, Second Street Ephriam Schooley House (Parker-Bennett House), Second Street Old Acre, Second Street
Sunday, October 7 Samuel Means House, Bond Street Marshall Claggett House, Main Street Graham House, Main Street Hollingsworth-Lee House, Main Street |
www.waterfordfoundation.org
P.O. Box 142 Waterford, Virginia 20197
Old School offices 540.882.3018 Fair Offices 540-882-3129
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A charming object
for the Fair Raffle
This year's Fair Raffle item has been graciously donated by Don Noyes, who has exhibited his whimsical carved creatures at the Fair since 1996.
Noyes's carvings are influenced by Pennsylvania German folk art designs of the early 19th century. "I grew up with a penknife in my pocket and whittled all my life," he says, and in 1991 got serious about his carving. Birds and bird trees are now joined by mirrors, lamps, whirlygigs, and many one-of-a-kind items, each decorated by his wife Janie (and many of which fill their Ohio house, a converted barn). See his website for a gallery of Noyes's work.
The delightful "bird tree" Noyes has donated
for the Fair raffle is hand carved and hand painted, and while Noyes would say their colorful decorations are not "God's birds" but his designs, the birds in this piece still seem to come to life on their perches.
Raffle tickets are $3 apiece or four for $10; they will be on sale at the Fair, with the winner to be drawn Sunday afternoon, October 7. You also can purchase them now at the Corner Store in Waterford, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday-Friday.
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Another bird takes shape in Noyes's hands.
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Jan Kitselman, at right, discusses booth locations with new exhibitors, with Fair Chair Fran Holmbraker (second from right) on hand.
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Much of the preparation that goes into each Fair is done by volunteers, who lend their time and expertise to making this the premier event of its kind on the East Coast.
Not many of them have provided four decades of dedicated work, however. Jan Kitselman has.
After moving to Waterford in 1970, she served on the Foundation board as a director and officer, then chaired the Homes Tour portion of the fair for a decade.
Her home, Mill End, "has been on the Homes Tour more often than not," says Fair Chairman Fran Holmbraker.
In recent years Jan has been integral to the success of the Crafts Exhibit. "She feels strongly about using the Fair's exhibit of heritage crafts to help fulfill the educational mission of the Foundation," Holmbraker says.
Which shows in the sustained excellence that has brought the Exhibit regional and national recognition. Thank you, Jan.
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The productive farmland of Western Loudoun County remains one of the county's most precious resources, and more vines than ever push their roots down deep into Loudoun soils, making its description as "D.C.'s Wine Country" a meaningful one. Stop and taste wines from the following vineyards during your visit to the Fair, at the Wine tent in the Schooley Mill field.
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