Happy almost Fall! It has been a few weeks but are back with our weekly round up of events to share on WDVE. Here are links and more info for the events we talked about this morning. You can find more September events here.
- Steel City Big Pour – SOLD OUT but Big Pour Events are still open!
- Friday – Shiloh Grill Meet the Brewers
- Sunday – Beer Brunch at Fat Heads
- Even more beer events here.
- Arts festival in Mellon Park
- Corner of Shady and Fifth Avenues
- September 9-11, 2011
- 1 mile race to benefit the Wounded Warrior Project and the Morningside Area Community Council
- Saturday, September 10, 2011 – The race begins at 8:30am
- You can register in person at the Morningside VFW between 5:30 and 8pm on Friday
- Morningside Community Day 10am-1pm
Break out your bagpipes… Ligonier Highland Games
- Celebrate your Scottish heritage
- Saturday, September 10, 2011
- Idelwild Park
- Tree trunk tossing, kilt wearing, bag piping day of fun
Stahlstown Flax Scutching Festival
- September 10-11, 2011
- Stahlstown, PA – just off the Donegal Turnpike Exit
- 2nd Oldest Flax Scutching Festival in the country – they have been celebrating the scutching of the flax every year since 1907.
- Sunday, September 11, 2011 11am-4pm
- The best tasting, freshest corn possible- straight from the field and roasted on site.
- Proceeds from each ear of roasted corn purchased will benefit the Flight 93 National Memorial. Learn more at www.honorflight93.org
Then steer your wagon (or mini van) down 711 south to Stahlstown – time to celebrate the important fiber of flax. Flax is what linen fabric is made out of. The Stahlstown Flax Scutching Festival is the 2nd oldest Scutching festival in the United States. They have been celebrating the scutching every year since 1907. Yep, 1907 – so join them for the 105th annual Flax Scutching festival to learn about how the flax plant is turned into linen cloth and snack on some buckweat pancakes too.