If you’re looking for the best deal for a weekend outing this summer, look no further than Arthurdale’s New Deal Festival from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday.
This year’s festival will feature local food trucks offering barbecue and chimichangas and desserts and snacks, including cookies and kettle corn.
Musicians are also lined up, including Mary Linscheid, Lars Swanson Group (jazz), Chris Haddox and the Mason’s.
There will be no shortage of fun things for kids, either. Kids can take part in old-fashioned games and toys, a farm petting zoo, hay rides, face-painting, sack race and a watermelon-eating contest.
Other features will include a pie baking contest, an art show, cornhole tournament, an antique car, truck and tractor show, and fiber arts and blacksmith demonstrations. Other artisans will also demonstrate their skills at a West Virginia crafts market with more than 20 artisans offering everything from masterful woodworking to artworks for hanging indoors and outside.
Arthurdale’s historic buildings will also be open to the public for free.
Tickets at the gate are $10 for adults and $5 for children. Bring your own chairs and bring cash because some vendors will not take cards and to buy water at the info booth and for $1 hay rides.
Adults 21 and older who plan to drink beer must have an ID with them.
