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  • A Weekend of Festivals Near, Far and Beer

    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.

    A Big Weekend of Beer Events

    • 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.

    A Fair in the Park

    • Arts festival in Mellon Park
    • Corner of Shady and Fifth Avenues
    • September 9-11, 2011

    1st Annual Morningside Mile

    • 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.

    Soergels Corn Roast

    • 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
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  • Scottish and Scutching in the Laurel Highlands This Weekend

    Scottish and Scutching in the Laurel Highlands This Weekend

    Highland Dancing
    Image by AlxTheRed via Flickr

    History lovers, hold on to your hats and pack up your wagons (station wagons) and head out route 30 east to the laurel highlands this weekend – it is a double header of cultural festivals.  We are often asked about what are the must-do events around Pittsburgh.  Both of these festivals are on our list of favorites.  And they happen to be on the same weekend so you can catch a double header of history celebration just outside of Pittsburgh this weekend.

    First stop – break out your bag pipes and kilt for the Ligonier Highland Games – a day long celebration of Scottish hertiage.  There will be athletic events such as tossing the caber (throwing a big tree trunk) and the Scottish hammer throw.

    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.

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    Ligonier Highland Games – Saturday, September 10, 2011 @ Idelwild Park

    Flax Scutching Festival – Saturday & Sunday, September 10 & 11, 2011 @ Stahlstown Flax Scutching Festival Fairgrounds

    Here is a map that includes both festivals and 2 other places that you should consider stopping – Joe’s Bar in Ligonier has the largest collection of taxidermy in North America and the Pie Shoppe in Laughlintown has good sandwiches and pumpkin cookies. The Google location for the Pie Shoppe is not correct – the Pie Shoppe is right on Route 30 – directly across from the Ligonier Country Inn.