3rd Annual WV Peach Festival, July 31-August 2
Sponsored by the WV Peach Festival Committee and Hampshire County Convention and Visitor’s Bureau
During the entire three-day event peach pies, peach ice cream and peach drinks as well as other desserts will be sold. Pies will be sold by Future Farmers of America students.
Entertainment will include Rain Crow, N2Pickin, a banjo-fiddle contest, country singing sensation Josh Oldaker and Flashback, among others. The festival begins on Friday morning with Romney Rotary grill, which is free and open to the public.
Also on Friday at noon, Walt Helmick, commissioner of the West Virginia Department of Agriculture, will crown the king and queen of the festival. Essay contest winners will be chosen from statewide entries.
Romney ON TRAC, sponsored by the peach festival committee, will facilitate two performances by Joe Santoro and his Wonderment Puppet Theater at the Marketplace Co-op beginning at 1 p.m. Friday. Also on Friday, Flashback, a band that specializes in 1950s and 1960s music, will perform from 6-9 p.m. at the gazebo on the lawn of Taggart Hall. From 6-8 p.m. the Springfield Fire Department will cook dinner, which will include ribs, chicken, baked beans and potato salad.
Taggart Hall, 91 South High St, Romney WV 26757
