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Festival Links

Johnny Appleseed Festival

The annual Fort Wayne Johnny Appleseed Festival is September 15 and 16, 2001. The festival celebrates pioneer life as John Chapman knew it. The nonprofit educational festival is held at Archer Park, Fort Wayne, Indiana with an emphasis on free family fun.

Shenandoah Apple Blossom Festival

The 75th annual Shenandoah Apple Blossom Festival in Winchester-Frederick County, Virginia, will be held May 1 through May 5, 2002. Music, celebrities, carnivals, and parades, abound in their celebration.  For information on next spring, go to their web site.

Molalla Apple Festival

This annual festival in Molalla, Oregon, is held the second Saturday in October. Homemade offerings include apple cider and apple pie. Entertainment includes their historic "Dibble House" and country music.

Georgia Apple Festival

In the mountains of North Georgia, folks will gather for the 30th annual apple festival held in Ellijay, Gilmer County, October 13-14 and 20-21. There is an admission charge. The festival features regional craft

Brushy Mountain Apple Festival

Wilkes County, North Carolina, is the home of the annual Brushy Mountain Apple Festival held the first Saturday in October. There is no admission fee to this annual fall event where country crafts, mountain culture, food, and entertainment are at hand in downtown North Wilkesboro.

Apple Festival in South Carolina

This apple festival in Westminster, Oconee County, South Carolina, has something for everyone, including white water rafting and arts and crafts. For information about this fall festival, go to this site.

Capital District Apple Festival

Crafts, a haunted house, cloggers, and a cooking demonstration are among the activities at the ninth annual Capital District Apple Festival at the Altamont Fair Grounds, Altamont, New York. Information is available on the web from Altamont Orchards.

Hudson River Apple Festival 

On, October 20, 2001, the Kingston Hospital Foundation and the city of Kingston, New York, will host their third festival. Admission is free to this day-long event which includes crafts, a petting zoo, music, and lots of apples. Information is at the New York Apple Association's site.

Story Links

Snow White

Snow White - This site includes the 1812 version, Little Snow-White, and other stories and interesting
links provided by D. L. Ashliman.

Another Snow White  for the reading at Kay E. Vandergrift's web site.

Another version might be more familiar at the disneymania pages

William Tell

wiLHELM tell by Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller is available in etext through Project Gutenberg

Sir Isaac Newton

This interesting web site for Sir Isaac Newton hails from  England with lots of great links such as this link.

You can also find information on Newton at Encarta.

Johnny Appleseed

Springfield Students have transcribed the first stanza, "Over the Appalachia Barricade," of Poet Vachel Lindsay's three-stanza work, In Praise of Johnny Appleseed

*Recipe Roundup

Brookfield Orchards,
North Brookfield, Massachusetts

Dorothy Jarrett, Ellenwood Farm, Charles County, Maryland, submitted by her son, John

Virginia State Apple Board
Staunton, Virginia

Delaware Fruit Growers Association
Dover, Delaware

The Jones Farm Families,
Jones Farm & Country Store, Cornwall, New York

Barbara Yowell
Yowell Farm Enterprise
Etlan, Virginia

Jan Eckert,
Eckert's Country Store & Farms, Belleville, Illinois

Arlene Kober,
Kober Orchards, Inc.,
Sparta, MI

Olivia Frederickson Whitehurst 
Frederickson Orchard,
Mt. Jackson, Virginia 

Jim Graves,
Graves' Mountain Lodge Kitchen,
Syria, Virginia

New York Apple Association
(previously Western New York Apple Growers)