23rd Annual Chocolate Festival - April 17-18 Schedule
Washington, KY
Shops and Street
Vendors Open : 10:00 - 5:00 Saturday
11:00 - 5:00 Sunday
Saturday, April 17
10:00 - 5:00 Most Shops open with Chocolates for sale - Ask to
Register for Prizes
10:00 - 5:00 Street Vendors and Vendors inside City Building
in center of village
10:00 - 4:30 Paxton House Visitor's Center Open, Tours
Available
10:00 - 5:00 Harriet Beecher Stowe Slavery to Freedom Museum -
Open - Selling Chocolates
10:00 - 5:00 Rob Weingartner, Silversmith - Demonstrating
Cutting Stones
10:00 - 5:00 Sand Art
1:00 - 2:00 Elvis Presley Show - Jo-EL "Tribute to
the King"
1:00
Plowing Demonstration across from previous visitor's Center (Log Cabin)
2:00 - 3:00 Cloggers - Presented by Vicki Morgan
& Crew
3:00 - 4:00 2nd Elvis Show by
Jo-EL
Sunday, April 18
11:00 - 5:00 Street Vendors and Vendors inside City Building
in center of Village
11:00 - 5:00 Most Shops open with Chocolates for sale - Ask to
Register for Prizes
11:00 - 5:00 Rob Weingartner, Silversmith - Demonstrating
Cutting Stones
11:00 - 5:00 Children's
Games
11:00 - 5:00` Sand Art
11:00 - 4:30 Paxton House Visitor's Center Open - Tours
Available
11:00 - 5:00 Harriet Beecher Stowe Slavery to Freedom Museum -
Open - Selling Chocolates
1:00 - 5:00 Log Cabin Cruise In - DJ "Just for
Fun"-By Log Post Office - Contact Michael Mahaffey 606-759-7409
1:30 "
Chocolate Candy Hunt" on Harriet Beecher Stowe Museum lawn - sponsored by Maysville
Younger Womans Club
3:00 - 4:00 Karly, Dawn & Little Sarie Band - Base,
Fiddle, Banjo & Guitar
4:00 - 5:00 "Chocolate Creations" Contest, Marshall
Keys Tavern, Entries must be received by 4:00,
Judging at 4:30. Prize for Winner.
Each Shop participates in their own way. Some will put "Kisses"
in bags, have Contests inside their shops,
"Hourly Drawings" for Chocolates, Free Recipes for Customers, and
more.
For Booth Space Contact Marsha Jones (606) - 759-0505
Sponsored by: Washington Shopkeepers Association
23rd
Annual Chocolate Festival April 17-18, 2010, in Washington, KY
Take a step back in time and walk the flagstone pathways
where Simon Kenton, Daniel Boone, Harriet Beecher Stowe and Confederate General
Albert Sidney Johnston once walked. Along the way you will experience 18th
Century architecture and 225 years of well-preserved history. Born in
Washington, Confederate General Albert Sidney was the son of a very
prominent doctor whose home is the first museum opened in Mason County..
Washington, Kentucky has been
home to many doctors and has several to this day.
Plan now to attend a “Pride of Kentucky” festival April
17 and 18. The 23rd Annual Chocolate Festival, opens
Saturday 10-6 and Sunday 11-5. There will be chocolate all along the flagstone
path, street vendors, a silversmith demonstrating cutting stones, live entertainment, food, and delicious chocolates
as well as children's games and more. On Saturday are the cloggers and two Elvis
Presley Shows - "A Tribute to the King", celebrating his 75th
birthday. ...Elvis Presley
I am a person of many moods....and all of them want some chocolate...I'll do
anything for chocolate! I'll gladly eat my words, if you write them in
Chocolate. Enjoy many varieties of fudge, cookies, Midnight Devil's Food
Cake, cream candy dipped in chocolate, chocolate covered peppermint sticks, and peanut butter
roll. Then there is Frozen cheesecake on a stick, pecan pie, peanut
butter pie, bananas, Boboa - all on a stick freshly dipped in chocolate before your eyes -
these are a few of your many choices.
On Sunday bring the children to the "Chocolate Candy Hunt" at 1:30 on
the Harriet Beecher Stowe Slavery to Freedom Museum. This event is
sponsored by the
Maysville Younger Womans Club. Enjoy a 4 string band from 3-4 pm. From 1-5,
is the “Log Cabin Cruise-In”, enter your old cars and trucks. For more
information contact Michael Mahaffey (606) 759-7409. Have your entries for
the "Chocolate Creations" Contest on Sunday from 4:00 to 5:00 pm at
Marshall Keys Tavern there by 4:00 pm. Judging at 4:30 pm.
Enjoy a visit to the museums in town including: The Harriet Beecher Stowe-Slavery to Freedom Museum, selling many varieties of chocolates. This is an annual fund raiser for this museum. Other museums include: The Albert Sidney Johnston House, Mefford’s Station, Simon Kenton Shrine, The Cane Brake, Paxton Inn, Old Church Museum, and the Presbyterian Church. Tours of the museums throughout the village will be available at the Visitor's Center. In addition there are several Log Cabins including a post office and personal residences.
Be sure to visit the many unique shops in town. Antiques, primitives, collectibles, lamps,
jewelry, crafts, candles and complete line of soy products made locally, new
gift items or that special something for your home - you can find it
in the Washington shops. Services include a lamp shop, brass & copper
restoration and
framing shops. There will be door prizes and special chocolate treats
available in most shops with many having specials. Opening during this
event is the
1790 Row House Mall with 10 rooms offering Hand Crafted Furniture, Ceramics,
Deco Art & paint supplies, Baskets and basket weaving kits, Cherry
Hill
Crafts, Clay City Pottery, Ann's Candy Shop, TB's CookieDots, a Christmas
Shoppe and Kid's Korner. Later classes will be offered in Quilting,
Ceramics,
Basket Weaving and Herb Classes in Growing, Cooking, Drying and Other Uses for
Herbs.
Everyone wishing to sell their wares call Marsha
Jones 606-759-0505 or E-mail: marsha.jones59@yahoo.com
Home crafted items are encouraged.
April 17 and 18, and plan to
visit a 1700’s community. You will be glad you did!