HARVEST FEST 2013
A Great Weekend!
BY THE
NUMBERS
Friday
Night Stehekin Valley Music Program - 140
Attendees
Saturday
Cider Pressing and Community Potluck - 165+
Participants
Sunday
Poetry Night - a dozen readers and
reciters
WHAT A
COMMUNITY EFFORT!
Informed on Monday that the
normal venues for Harvest Fest, (the Buckner Orchard and the Golden West Lodge),
would be closed due to the government shutdown; the Stehekin Community stepped
up!
Instrumental was the
Stehekin School Board in providing the use of the
School on Friday evening for the music program and for cider pressing and
community potluck on Saturday. Without this prompt and generous offer, Harvest
Fest would not have happened this year.
As the School is cleaned on
Sunday evening and was unavailable, sincere thanks to Terry Lavender for
providing a warm and comfortable setting for Poetry night.
Many individuals stepped
forward, allowing us to pick a truckload of apples prior to the shutdown. Many
other small details needed to be worked out now that the Orchard was
unavailable. Hauling and storing the apples, disposing of the cider mash as to
not attract bears to the school, and more. Without hesitation, community member
and friends were there!
STEHEKIN VALLEY MUSIC - ACROSS THE
GENERATIONS
With a standing-room-only
crowd, the Friday night program was lively, and entertaining, with a dose of
Valley history. Peggy Ann Courtney, Mary Denmead, Patty Wilsey, Liz and Tom
Courtney, The End of the Road Band, "The Andrew Sisters," and spirited
sing-along's of Valley favorites made this an event to be remembered! Rocking
the School from 7-8:30 PM, the program was followed by music for dancing and
listening from Agnes on Fire, an aberration of The End of the Road
Band. This was an excellent kick off to Harvest Fest 2013! And, many thanks to JoAnne Reiter and Mark Scherer for thier planning for this event.
CIDER
MAKING AND COMMUNITY POTLUCK
Truly the result of a
community's commitment and effort, Saturday was busy, relaxing, entertaining,
filling, and very enjoyable. Serenaded first by big band music typical of the
Orchard in its hey-day, then live with Imus and the Mud Flows, this was
a day to forget about the many consequences of the shutdown to this small
community and to celebrate the Community and the Buckner Orchard.
Under the best of
circumstance, this was a great Harvest Fest Weekend. Under the circumstances
overlaying the Valley this year, this was a marvelous weekend! The Stehekin
Valley and Community truly shined! Many, many thanks to all who made it so.
Harvest Fest celebrates the
Buckner Orchard and the Stehekin Community. This year, it was a little more
about community.
See you next
year!
E-mail: bucknerorchard@aol.com
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