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Eighth Annual Adamant Blackfly Festival
1313 Haggett Road at the Adamant Co-op
Saturday, May 22, 2010
More fun than thought humanly possible!
Questions?? Call the Co-op at 223-5760
Forget about fiddleheads, peepers, or maple sugaring. Blackflies are the real
harbinger of spring in central Vermont. And excitement is building as the
residents of Adamant, Vt., a rural village six miles north of the state capital
of Montpelier, prepare to host the 8th Annual Adamant Blackfly Festival. The
co-op will sell blackfly memorabilia including mugs, t-shirts, tattoos, bug
bafflers (screened hooded shirts that make it possible to be outside during
blackfly season), bug salve, and great food by local chefs.
9:00am - Nature walk on the shores of Sodom Pond
Join local naturalist Richard
Czaplinski for a leisurely walk along the shores of Sodom Pond - one of the
sources of the black flies, as well as a richness of all kinds of life – human,
animal, and insect.
10:30am - Music with Lizzie Mandell and Friends
11:00am - Official opening of the 2010 Black Fly Festival
Ongoing activities:
Food service begins! Choose from fabulous grill items: jumbo hot dogs, chicken
sausage, salmon burgers, portabella mushrooms, delectable salads, and a
veritable bevy of luscious baked goods.
Black Fly Jeopardy! Play this game and
test your knowledge of trivia.
Silent Auction! Bid for wonderful art pieces,
great food, all sorts of services, etc. Get your bids in fast as the auction
closes at 2:30pm.
Children’s Games and Art Activities!
Frisbee Golf!
Live Music and Entertainment! (See separate schedule)
11:40am - Storytelling with Willem Lange
12:00 - Blackfly Fashion Show
Strut your stuff with your favorite black fly wear! (Antennae
optional.)??2:00pm - Famous Black Fly Parade Get out your best marching shoes
and dust off that kazoo! Featuring eclectic costumes, impromptu music,
synchronized bug zappers, a red Ferrari, local tractors, livestock floats with
four-legged fertilizers. Past parades have been described as “campy,” “a whole
lot of fun,” and “the Macy’s Day Parade of the Insect World.”
12:30pm - Music by Tom McKenzie and Patti Casey
1:15pm - Music by Pitz Quattrone and his Earthman Band
1:20pm - Music by The Flyswatters
2:00pm - Famous Black Fly Parade
Get out your best marching shoes and dust off that kazoo! Featuring eclectic costumes, impromptu music,
synchronized bug zappers, a red Ferrari, local tractors, livestock floats with four-legged fertilizers.
Past parades have been described as “campy,” “a whole lot of fun,” and “the Macy’s Day Parade of the Insect World.”
2:30pm - Black Fly Pie Contest
Awards prizes in Taste, Presentation, and
Creativity categories. Bring an entry or just share in the tasting along with
our panel of luminary judges. Silent auctions ends!
3:00pm – Music by Susannah Blachly and George White
3:00pm - Live music, games, food service and much more continues!
5:00pm - Official closing of the 2010 Black Fly Festival
That’s all folks! Make
your airline reservations to join us again next year!
**Bidding for the auction starts May 8 - we will have a binder with all the
auction bidding sheets at the store. Thanks to all for your donations. If
you'd still like to donate, all sorts of items are possible, from boat tours or
craft items to a couple hours of your business' specialty (baby-sitting,
elder-care, accounting, painting, whatever!!!). Stop by the store to sign up,
and encourage your friends to make offers, too.
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Adamant Cooperative
1313 Haggett Road, Box 1
Adamant, Vermont 05640
802-223-5760 |
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