WOODSTOCK — The annual Shenandoah County Fair begins Monday at the fairgrounds with concerts, food, carnival rides, activities for kids, agricultural competition, exhibits and much more.
The Seven Bends State Park near the town of Woodstock is home to hiking trails, riverside recreational opportunities, vibrant biodiversity, and some hidden gems of local history.
After a rocky start, the Emo Fair is underway, and planning is full speed ahead.
Angela Halvorsen, board member of the Rainy River Valley Agricultural Society, said they received the go ahead in early July and since then they have been hustling to pull everything together in less than two months.
“Generally, we have a year to plan the fair and because we started planning about three weeks, we’re scrambling a little bit to try and get things in place,” Halvorsen said.
Halvorsen said she has been updating the information on the website and Facebook page as more things get planned.
Dominik Kulusic, a German graduate student, hiked and cycled all of Virginia’s state parks during the past 12 months (pictured here in Richmond).
By spring 2020, Dominik Kulusic, a 26-year-old German graduate student in human resources management at Rutgers University, was caught in the crosshairs of the pandemic. Classes were remote. The student gym closed. The Big Apple, a nearby lure, was no longer an option. And by February his housemates, fellow German nationals, had trickled away.
So last April the peripatetic Kulusic left New Jersey for Virginia at the urging of friends. Richmond was his old stomping grounds: In 2016, while an undergraduate at the University of Konstanz in southern Germany studying political science and public administration, he spent a semester at the University of Richmond.