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Gourmet Dining, Classical Music and A Rural Retreat Make for a Perfect Weekend Getaway
June 25th, 2008 Categories: Things to Do, Weekend Pass
Local music offerings abound (like the Del Ray Music Festival). But if you’re looking for music AND a weekend getaway AND gourmet dining, consider driving about 4 hrs. west to Bath County. There, snug against the Alleghenies, you’ll find it all in a decidedly rural setting. In fact, Bath County has no traffic lights - and for many Northern Virginia residents that might be reason enough for a getaway!
The Garth Newel Music Center in Warm Springs, VA is the unique vision of Christine Herter Kendall who died in 1981.
The center produces about 50 events a year many of which are at night and where dinner may start with a minted pea soup with a scallop mousseline.
This year’s offerings will include a world-premiere composition in August by Pulitzer Prize winning composer Paul Moravec.
For more information, click here.
Michael
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Cherry Blossoms Bring More than One MILLION Visitors to Greater Washington DC Area
March 28th, 2008 Categories: Alexandria, Things to Do, Weekend Pass
A 1912 “friendship” gift of 3000 cherry trees from the mayor of Tokyo, Yukio Ozaki, set the stage for what is now the annual National Cherry Blossom Festival.
Starting March 29, and running through April 13, the festival will draw over 1,000,000 visitors to the greater Washington, DC area, including Alexandria. A full, two week schedule of activities will feature everything from sake tasting to kite flying to a parade to the largest Japanese Street Festival in the United States.
First Lady Helen Heren Taft planted the first two cherry trees on March 27, 1912. That same year the United States sent flowering dogwoods to Japan as a gift and did so again in 1965. During the duration of World War II the Japanese trees were referred to as “Oriental” trees and the festival was suspended between 1942 and 1946.
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