Spread out in colorful booths all over the tree-shaded park and through the quaint streets of town, more than 200 vendors offer everything from traditional crafts and antiques to home canned goods and mountain cooking. There's a farmer's market section for locally grown produce and Uniquely West Virginia featuring wine, honey and other shelved goods from all over the state.

High quality traditional and contemporary arts and crafts fill Berkeley Springs State Park. Just down the street, the Morgan Arts Council's Ice House art center has a gallery exhibit and sale of one-of-a-kind items from the most popular artists in town. And there are lots in Berkeley Springs, repeatedly listed among the 100 best small art towns in America. A half-dozen galleries bookstores and art shops along the park and main street join in the festivities with specials of their own.

Everyone eats at the Apple Butter Festival. There are sides of beef, whole hogs and thirty feet of grills packed with chicken-halves all roasted over open fires. Apple dumplings and funnel cakes lead the list of sweet tooth satisfiers. Pepperoni rolls, bean soup, country ham sandwiches and onion blooms are festival favorites too. More than half a dozen downtown restaurants have special treats to lure festival goers inside.

OFFICIAL FESTIVAL MEMORABILIA
The producing Berkeley Springs-Morgan County Chamber of Commerce offers a line of festival wearables including tee shirts,sweatshirts,tote bags and hats all bearing Apple Butter Festival logos. On sale in the festival store at the entrance to the park, the Chamber is also offering limited edition reproductions of the treasured 19th century Moray lithograph of Berkeley Springs. Also, the festival will sell a commemorative program --- nearly 100 pages of photographs, history, feature stories and schedule of festival activities. The Apple Butter Festival Hall of Fame Members will be profiled and local businesses advertised. Copies of the collectible book will be published and sold for $1.00 For advance orders on the book, wearables, and limited edition lithographs call 1-800-447-8797.

WINNING THE QUILT

For the 16th quilt that Rika Bennett has created for the annual Apple Butter Festival, she turned again to a favorite theme: a very old pattern updated with contemporary fabrics.

Once again the quilt is queen-size and the major part of the quilt fabric is 100% cotton.

The quilt is sponsored by Coldwell Banker Realty and will be chanced off at the festival on October 7. The quilt is currently on display at the Ice House until May 28 then moves to the Berkeley Springs Antique Mall where it will hang until festival weekend. Chances are available at the Chamber of Commerce office and the antique mall.

During the annual Delectable Mountains Quilt Show at the Ice House showing April 14-May 28, Rika Bennett stands with her 16th Apple Butter Festival quilt named Autumn Colors.

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