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Chainsaw Carving Demonstrations at The Maple Syrup Festival

Go Foxburg! — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 22:25:59 +0000

Chainsaw Carving by Brenda Lehman

Chainsaw carver, Brenda Lehman will be doing demonstrations and her work will be available for purchase at the Maple Syrup Festival. Located in Wellsville, N.Y. she is a French teacher by day and artisan by night. She makes impressive wildlife creatures using a log and a chainsaw. To view some of her work, check out her website www.shecarves.com

Yeany’s Maple Creates a Sticky Situation in Foxburg

Go Foxburg! — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 19:00:33 +0000

Yeany’s Maple is a family owned and operated maple producer located in downtown Marienville. In operation for 9 years now, they produce on average 1,000 gallons of syrup each year. Mr. Yeany tapped over 700 trees at the Riverstone Estate this year, and produced the syrup for the Maple Syrup Festival. Yeany’s will be providing all of the maple syrup and maple products for the festival this year. There will be a wide variety of maple confections to choose from including maple covered nuts, maple candies, maple cream, chocolate candy filled with maple cream, maple creamy(maple flavored soft serve), cotton candy and shaved ice. Don’t forget to pick up a bottle of locally tapped and produced syrup for on your pancakes or in your recipes.

Yeany and associates will also be giving various candy, cream and sugar making demonstrations throughout the day. See how maple sugar is made at the Allegheny Grille; watch them make maple cream at Divani Chocolate. Cool down with the ARCA members and watch how maple creamys are made, you will not be able to resist this frosty treat.

Try a Maple Creamy at The Foxburg Maple Syrup Festival

Go Foxburg! — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 05:00:14 +0000

Maple Creamy

The Foxburg Maple Syrup Festival and Yeany’s Maple introduce The Maple Creamy. This delicious frosty treat is made with fresh maple syrup and soft serve ice cream. This is just one of the many maple flavored treats you will find at the festival. Others include maple sugar, maple covered nuts, maple cream, maple candies, maple flavored cotton candy and shaved ice.

Watch how maple sugar and maple candies are made at The Allegheny Grille on the festival day. There will also be a maple cream making demonstration at Divani Chocolatier.

See you and your sweet tooth Saturday April 28 for the Foxburg Maple Syrup Festival!

7th Foxburg Fall Festival

Go Foxburg Admin — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 12:07:16 +0000

Step back in time to the open market scene where vendors from afar commune to share their stories and wares. From food to fine arts to curiosities and confections, you’re sure to find something to strike your fancy down in the valley at the Foxburg Fall Food, Art and Wine Festival. The Festival opens at 11 am and will continue until 6 pm and this year it will surely be magical as it is about to celebrate it’s lucky number 7th year anniversary on 10/10/10! Read the Press Release here

ARCA’s 1st Scottish Festival

Go Foxburg Admin — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 17:00:18 +0000

For just one day, on the 15th of August, 2009 Foxburg added a new dimension to it’s many facets – a celebration of Scotland. The sound of bagpipes filled the air as the strolling bagpipers marched about throughout the day. Men outfitted in their finest kilts roamed the grounds while sheepdogs rounded-up all of the roaming sheep. There was Scottish music, food and crafts at every turn, and even Scottish clans – the theme of the day was that of a land so rich in cultural heritage that it was teeming at the Riverstone Farm. Rightly so it was, due to the fact that the original benefactor of Foxburg, Joseph Mickle Fox, was responsible for bringing the game of golf to Foxburg after enjoying it in St. Andrews, Scotland. So many years after he enjoyed the Scottish countryside, the Scottish countryside came to Foxburg. It was a day like no other Foxburg had ever seen.

To do full justice to this story, let’s step back to the evening before the festival, when the celebrations actually began. Friday night, the festival commenced with ‘Ceilidh’, a Gaelic term meaning “a social gathering with traditional music, dancing, and storytelling” at 7pm. Johnathan Shegog played the bagpipes to welcome visitors to downtown Foxburg for the event held in the grassy nook between Foxburg Free Library and Foxburg Wine Cellars. Throughout Ceilidh, Carl Peterson and Robert Murdoch sang folk songs joined by Melinda Crawford on the fiddle and her husband Dan Crawford accompanying on piano. It was a joyous open air concert interlaced with the sounds of the bagpipes up and down the valley.

Saturday’s events started with the opening ceremony by MacDonald Pipe Band from Pittsburgh and was followed by various events including athletic performances wherein athletes displayed their strength and skills with the Caber Toss and Stone Put, sheepdog herding demonstrations by Tom Conn & Pam Gardner, and a variety of live music by the MacDonald Pipe Band and other performers. There were many craft vendors selling their wares ranging from pottery to kilts to hand pulled wool. Foods of the Highland included traditional Scottish delights such as meat pies, sausages, homemade cookies or folks could even have a slice of pizza by Foxburg Pizza. Other businesses in Foxburg also joined in the festivities with wine from Foxburg Wine Cellars, and Chocolates by Divani Chocolate Boutique to give the visitors a taste of the town. Inside the Events Center, kids enjoyed stories and songs by John Mickle and also had an opportunity to learn some Gaelic from Harry Webb. Popcorn, chocolate and ice cream were some of the tasty treats readily available for snacking… a kid’s dream come true! Visitors awaited horse carriage rides given by the Hovis family of Emlenton and Segway Tours promoted a new kind of “leisure sport” with a team of Segways, giving demonstrations and trials. Other attractions included various Scottish clan organizations who lined their tent along the roadway near the Galloway and Highland cattle. There, they shared their history and offered genealogy study and memberships.
The festival was interluded with announcements from the management, one of which was for the band to play the surprise ‘Happy Birthday’ tune for Dr Arthur Steffee, the owner of Riverstone Farm, who hosted the festival on his premises. Incidentally, during the closing ceremony, Dr. Steffee announced that he discovered at the festival that he is about a quarter Scottish.

A special “Moran taing!” goes out to all of the volunteers for ARCA in making this wonderful event such a success, after all it was a great day for Scotland and Foxburg!

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Emlenton Summer Festival 2009

Go Foxburg Admin — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 14:37:58 +0000

Summer Festival Schedule
Friday, July 10
8:00am-5:00pm Townwide Trash & Treasure Sale
10:00am-12:00pm Jr. Fishing Derby-Kahle lake
7:30pm “Emlenton’s Got Talent”- Crawford Center

Saturday, July 11
TOP OF THE HILL
8:00am-4:00pm- Antique Gas Engine & Farm Equipment Show- Cemetery Ballfield
8:00am Softball Tournament- Ballfield by pool
9:00am Duathlon- Starting at Hughes Park
10:30am Scavenger Hunt- Hughes Park
MAIN STREET
Noon-Dusk Arts & Crafts, Food Vendors, Kid games
2:00pm Baby Beautiful Contest Announced (voting at IGA)
12:00pm Kid’s Bike Race
2:00pm Frog Jumping Contest
2:00pm Cutest Pet Photo Contest
4:00pm-6:00pm Entertainment “Double Take”
6:00pm Summer Festival Parade
7:00pm-9:00pm Rock Band- “Ask a Stranger”
Dusk Fireworks
Sunday, July 12
12:00pm-4:00pm Car Cruise- Main Street
12:00pm-4:00pm Food Vendors