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June 2- 4 Living History Weekend/Shenandoah1862
Pridgeon's ShenandoahLegion (PSL) and the 10th Virginia (a Legion member unit) are pleased to announce a campaign-style major preservation event to be held on the Cross Keys and Port Republic Battlefields on June 2 thru 4th 2006. This fundraising event is called "Shenandoah1862" and will feature a preservation march and scenarios depicting regimental actions from the last two battles in Stonewall Jackson's infamous "Valley Campaign." www.shenandoah1862.org

June 3 Court Days Festival - Harrisonburg
The Court Days Festival is an annual community effort to enrich downtown Harrisonburg, Virginia as a gathering place and to deepen appreciation of historic buildings and local heritage. Visitors have the opportunity to experience local 19th century life as they step into history. Court Square bustles with activity as visitors, re-enactors, street merchants, and residents are transported back in time under the summer skies of the famous ShenandoahValley. Here are some of the highlights that will be going on that day: * A child pick-pocket · Gentlemen horse trading · Families claiming their lost hogs from the Town Sergeant · Town Sergeant fining persons for various infractions · Ladies gossiping about fashion · Children demonstrating and selling instruments to raise funds for the Harrisonburg Academy · Mayor Hardesty, Harrisonburg's first Mayor, offering guided carriage tours · A stump speaker · Two families go to trial as a wife seeks divorce · School Master offers an 1850s classroom experience · A temperance rally · Ladies Victorian Tea · Gentlemen's Cigar and Brandy Hour with local historian John Heatwole · Dance instructor offering lessons on the Court House lawn · Many vignettes of everyday life in the 19th century * Ladies Victorian Tea * Gentlemen's Cigar & Brandy Hour.
"Courting the Past-1850s Harrisonburg Recreated." Details online: http://www.courtdaysfestival.org Admission free. Sponsored by Harrisonburg Downtown Renaissance Contact: Jamie Marsh-540-432-8922, Eddie Bumbaugh-540-432-7701 fax: 540-432-7778
Some activities or events require admission-- pick up your button passes at the Hardesty-Higgins House; 212 South Main Street, Harrisonburg, VA or call 540-432-8935.

June 8 Civil War Kids' Camp – Cross Keys and Port Republic
Cross Keys and Port Republic camp will be held June 8th. For more information contact 540-249-0613

Thursdays at Noon: Salute to Broadway
A musical tribute to the "Great White Way" with songs from classic Broadway shows!
Harrisonburg Downtown Renaissance and BRTF continue their new lunch-time series with SALUTE TO BROADWAY, a celebration of upbeat and up tempo songs from great Broadway composers that will send you back home (or back to work!) with your toes tapping and a song in your heart! This 1/2 hour revue features Andrea Young, Bryan Holt, Tracey Schimmel and BRTF's Producing Artistic Director Bev Appleton.
Thursdays in June at noon; doors open at 12 and performance starts at 12:15 and is 1/2 hour in length. Theater tickets are $5; group discounts available. Patrons can bring a bag lunch, order a boxed lunch through BRTF and Calhoun's Restaurant, or just attend the show without lunch. For info and reservations call the BRTF Box Office at (540) 564-1998.

June 9 Fridays on the Square - Harrisonburg
Features Quatra na Bassa world music. Bring a picnic dinner and a blanket to the Court House lawn The free concert starts at 7pm on the Court House lawn. Sponsored by Harrisonburg Downtown Renaissance.

June 11-18 ShenandoahValley Bach Festival – Harrisonburg
The ShenandoahValley Bach Festival is a week long event devoted to promoting the appreciation and understanding of Bach and a featured composer, country or era. Opening concert is on Sunday. Tickets $20 A, $17 Senior, $15 Student. Visit http://www.emu.edu/bach

June 23 Fridays on the Square – Harrisonburg
Features Jackass Flatts bluegrass music. The free concert starts at 7pm on the Court House lawn. Sponsored by Harrisonburg Downtown Renaissance.

July 1-16 Green Valley Book Fair – Mount Crawford
Open only during scheduled dates from 9AM to 7PM Daily. Located just south of Harrisonburg, Virginia, in the heart of the beautiful ShenandoahValley, the Green Valley Book Fair is a discount book outlet store featuring over 500,000 new books at incredible bargain prices. Save 60%-90% off retail on over 40,000 different titles in more than 60 different categories. More info call 1-800-385-0099.

July 1 Massanutten Summer Jam 2006 – Massanutten Resort
Dickey Betts & Great Southern - The Nighthawks. Admission $20.00 in advance, $25.00 Day of the Event. Ticket information by phone: 1-800-207-6277. Rain or Shine - Festival Seating - Bring Lawn Chairs or Blankets.

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Arrington's Journal Book of Lists
We have been selected again this year to be in Arrington's Journal Book of Lists!
We have been voted as one of the best B&Bs for "Best Near a College or University", hereby making it one of the top 3 percent of bed and breakfasts and country inns throughout the United States and Canada.
This is our 3rd award for "Best Near a College or University" and won "Best for Outdoor Sports Enthusiasts" in 2005.
Click here to Vote us for Arrington 2007 Book of Lists!

Did you know?

George Washington never threw a silver dollar across the Potomac River!
George Washington, born in 1732, spent his boyhood at Ferry Farm across from Fredericksburg, Virginia, on the Rappahannock River (not the Potomac) at a time when the U.S. dollar did not exist. American colonist used British currency. The dollar became the basic unit of money in the United States in 1792, and the first U.S. silver dollar coin was minted two years later--although the Spanish silver dollar was widely circulated in America throughout Washington's lifetime. If Washington had attempted to throw a U.S. silver dollar across the Potomac River from his home at Mount Vernon, he would have failed. At Mount Vernon, the river is more than a mile wide.

And now you know!

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Recipe of the Month

Sausage Casserole presented by Anne and George Mayer (past and future guests)

2 1/2 cups herbed croutons
2 cups shredded sharp cheddar cheese
2 lbs. hot & sweet sausage
6 eggs
3/4 tsp. mustard
2 1/2 cups milk
1 can cream of mushroom soup

Place croutons in 9X12 pan, putting shredded cheese on top.
Add cooked & drained sausage, crumbled.
Beat eggs, milk, soup and mustard.

Pour over top of croutons and cheese, refrigerated overnight.
Bake at 300 for 1 1/2 hrs.

Serves 8-10