This is the first of several special newsletters for all who are coming to help us celebrate the 70th Waterford Homes Tour & Crafts Exhibit, October 4, 5, and 6. There's much to tell!
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What's new at the 70th Fair
Harris Teeter Joins List of Fair Ticket Outlets.
 We're proud to announce that Harris Teeter is the newest addition to our stable of advance ticket outlets. You can now visit the customer service desk at any of the nine Harris Teeter stores in Loudoun County to purchase single-day Fair tickets. As a bonus, VIC Card customers will receive an additional discount and can purchase tickets at a special price of $15.
Please visit our website for store locations and for the full list of ticket outlets located throughout the region. The regular advance price for single-day tickets is $16--a significant savings over the regular price of $20 at the gate.
Country Store = Corner Store.
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The Corner Store has been waiting on customers for more than a century.
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The Fair's "Country Store," set up in the Chair Factory building on Second Street for many years, comes home to the Corner Store for our 70th Fair. This location, at the corner of Main and Second Streets, has served as a village store long before the current building was constructed on this triangular lot in about 1900. Visit the store for baked goods, jams and jellies, the famous Fair tote bags, wrapping paper, books, candles, and other items.
Photo Exhibit Fills John Wesley Church. This year the popular Fair Photo Exhibit will grace the walls and open spaces of the John Wesley Church sanctuary on Bond Street across from the Old Mill. The beautiful natural light, arched windows, and wooden pews will provide atmosphere for some of the finest photography in the area. Read about this competition and how to enter here.
New Indoor Spaces for Fair Craftspeople. With 160 of the nation's finest craftspeople filling our smal village, we're always getting creative in adding exhibit space. This year a new historic building in Waterford hosts Fair artisans: the former Methodist Church, across High Street from the Old School. The Methodist Episcopal Church constructed the building in the late 1870s; in 1994 it was sold and renovated as an office and a guest house. And the Chair Factory on Second Street, the former location of the County Store, will house several artisans for the first time this year.
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Purchase Advance Fair tickets
at outlets through October 3
 You have through Thursday, October 3, to purchase discounted advance ticktets at our ticket outlets in the Washington metro area.
An advance ticket for a day at the Fair is $16 (a savings of $4 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 $28) and 3-day (at $40) tickets at discount prices too.
You have through September 23 to purchase advance tickets online or by phone. You can always purchase tickets at the Foundation office at the Old School at 40222 Fairfax Street in Waterford.
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.
Complimentary Fair tickets have just been sent in the mail to Waterford Foundation. If you're not a member already, won't you join them? Individual memberships are $50 (one free Fair ticket) and family memberships are $100 (three tickets).
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11 Homes on Tour during the Fair
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In Waterford, residents live modern lives in old houses. Many residents live with hand-dug wells, low ceilings, and no air conditioning. Homes and buildings dating from the 18th century and later have been lovingly restored and renovated for 21st-century living.
Each year, a number of Waterford homeowners graciously open their homes for tours during the Fair, and scores of volunteers are on hand as docents.
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For those of 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.
Friday, October 4 The Pink House, Main Street William Nettle House, Second Street
Old Acre, Second Street
Wisteria Cottage, Main Street
Saturday, October 5 Jacob Mendenhall House, Second Street Samuel Steer House, Second Street
Braden House, Second Street
Asbury Johnson House, Second Street
Sunday, October 6 James Lewis House, Butcher's Row Goodwin-Sappington House, Main Street The Pink House, Main Street Palmer-Devine 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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Got GPS?
Program your device for the trip to Waterford:
40138 Main Street Waterford, Virginia, 20197
You will be directed to the closest parking area as you approach the village. |
Wine tasting returns
The wine tasting, now in its third year, is back--with six local wineries offering tastings, plus wine by the glass and bottle sales. A $10 winery tent ticket gets you a sample of each of these wineries' vintages and a commemorative wine glass. The wineries participating this year are:
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MUSIC & ENTERTAINMENT
The Old School Stage Schedule
The schedule is set for musical performances on the Old School Stage during the Fair. SATURDAY
2 p.m. Celtic Rhythm
School of Dance
3 p.m. Corey Harris
4 p.m. Furnace Mountain
SUNDAY
2 p.m. Nothin' Fancy
3 p.m. Corey Harris
4 p.m. Tara Linhardt Band
Fair staff and volunteers are now scheduling other performers to fill the crisp Autumn air with music and entertainment during the Fair. The Loudoun Chorale, The Waterford Magician, mimes, troubadours, and our favorite organ grinder will be on hand.
Reenactors will return for this third year of the American Civil War Sesquicentennial.
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Living history
at the Fair
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Detail from an engraving by Winslow Homer: The Veteran
in a New Field, 1867.
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Come meet Waterford Quaker farmer Amasa Hough (1790-1869). Hear him tell the tale of the Union troops who camped on his 234-acre property on Bond Street in July 1863, following their return from the Battle of Gettysburg. Learn about what it was like to farm the land in and around Waterford and raise a family in a Quaker village. Amasa will try to answer any questions you may have.
In this third year of the Civil War Sesquicentennial, as you stroll the streets you will see interpretive signs throughout the village describing how Waterford homes and their inhabitants figured in the events of the war in this Quaker village, which voted in 1861 not to secede from the Union.
Encampments of Union and Confederate troops will add to the feel of a village in conflict.
And visit the Second Street School, the one-room school house built in 1867 to educate African American students. See the furniture, flag, map, slates, and books that children in the 1880s used. (More than 30,000 fourth-graders have passed through its doors during the 28 years of the Foundation's living history program.)
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