It’s the final three in our countdown of the top 20 reasons for you and your family to visit the New Deal Festival:
3. See original Shirley Temple depression glass
4. Admire quilts made by members of the Arthurdale Homestead Quilt Guild
5. Tour Eleanor Roosevelt’s private rooms in the Arthurdale Inn (now Hospice).
6. Reunite with old friends
7. See original electoral college ballots from the 1936 presidential election in the Fratkin Collection
8. Find out how to turn zippers into roses at the crafts market
9. Enjoy live music from four local bands
10. Climb aboard a horse drawn wagon and tour historic Arthurdale
11. Get up close to hawks, eagles, and owls from the West Virginia Raptor Rehabilitation Center
12. Visit a WWII military camp complete with original Jeeps
13. Make a button buzzer in the kid’s area
14. Look under the hood of a 60’s muscle car
15. Enjoy Arthurdale’s famous barbecue chicken dinners
16. Watch blacksmiths turn raw metal into a thing of beauty in the Forge
17. Listen to WV stories about Eleanor Roosevelt in the Esso Station collected by the Traveling 219 Project
18. Talk with children of original homesteaders and learn what pranks they liked to play on their neighbors growing up
19. Meet Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt
20. Pet Eleanor the goat and meet her baby Anna
