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Weekly Highlights in West Virginia

Every featured event of the week, past and present

Pipestem's Pre-Park Past
Weekly Highlight Oct 19–26, 2026

Pipestem's Pre-Park Past

Pipestem Resort State Park's free WonderFall Hike on October 24, 2026, follows a naturalist along the roads and into the woods to find traces of the community that lived there before the park.

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Rocco's Dinner at Ceredo VFD
Weekly Highlight Oct 19–26, 2026

Rocco's Dinner at Ceredo VFD

Rocco Muriale brings his famous spaghetti to the Ceredo Volunteer Fire Department's 26th annual Sunday Dinner with Rocco on Oct. 25, 2026, at 700 B Street in Ceredo, W.Va.

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Chesapeake Fall Festival's
Weekly Highlight Oct 19–26, 2026

Chesapeake Fall Festival's

Chesapeake Family Worship in Chesapeake, W.Va., hosts a free fall festival with hayrides, pumpkin painting, pizza and a walk-through 'Judgment House' drama Oct. 23-25, 2026, plus a coat drive for neighbors in need.

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Rick Atkinson at the
Weekly Highlight Oct 19–26, 2026

Rick Atkinson at the

Three-time Pulitzer winner Rick Atkinson delivers the 44th Betsy K. McCreight Lecture in the Humanities at Charleston's Capitol Theater, a free talk marking America's 250th.

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Spark Takes Flight! in
Weekly Highlight Oct 19–26, 2026

Spark Takes Flight! in

Spark! Imagination and Science Center hosts its first-ever aviation exhibition, Spark Takes Flight!, on Saturday, Oct. 24, 2026, with glider building, wind-tunnel experiments and Hall of Fame aviator Ed Waske at the Mountaineer Mall.

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MCHD Trunk-or-Treat 2026
Weekly Highlight Oct 19–26, 2026

MCHD Trunk-or-Treat 2026

The Monongalia County Health Department's Trunk-or-Treat takes over 453 Van Voorhis Road in Morgantown on Thursday, Oct. 22, 2026, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m., with a DJ, WVU Medicine and Texas Roadhouse trunks, and teal-pumpkin non-food treats.

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First Oktoberfest at
Weekly Highlight Oct 12–19, 2026

First Oktoberfest at

Pipestem Resort State Park hosts its first-ever Oktoberfest October 16-18, 2026, a three-day celebration of peak fall foliage with a Bavarian beer garden, artisan market, and car show.

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WonderFall Hike at Cacapon
Weekly Highlight Oct 12–19, 2026

WonderFall Hike at Cacapon

Cacapon Resort State Park's WonderFall Hike leads a two-mile naturalist walk up the Cacapon Mountain fire road to the overlook, the highest point in West Virginia's eastern panhandle.

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WonderFall Hike at Kanawha
Weekly Highlight Oct 12–19, 2026

WonderFall Hike at Kanawha

Naturalist Jess Blalock leads a free interpretive WonderFall hike along the CCC Snipe Trail in Kanawha State Forest on October 18, 2026, exploring microhabitats and fallen-log ecology.

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Bridge Day Chili Cook-Off
Weekly Highlight Oct 12–19, 2026

Bridge Day Chili Cook-Off

The 16th Annual Bridge Day Chili Cook-Off takes over Court Street in downtown Fayetteville, West Virginia on October 17, 2026, where the public tastes and votes for the People's Choice winner.

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Withdrawal Film at Alban
Weekly Highlight Oct 12–19, 2026

Withdrawal Film at Alban

Aaron Strand's addiction drama "Withdrawal," made for $60,000 on miniDV camcorders, screens with a West Virginia short and a Q&A at the Alban Arts Center in St. Albans on Oct. 15, 2026.

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Morgantown Wiener Dog Race
Weekly Highlight Oct 12–19, 2026

Morgantown Wiener Dog Race

Morgantown's first annual Wiener Dog Race brings dachshunds, costumes, food trucks and a mock voting booth to Liberatore Field on Oct. 15, 2026, as part of Municipal Government Week.

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One Actor, All of Gatsby
Weekly Highlight Oct 5–12, 2026

One Actor, All of Gatsby

A solo stage adaptation of Fitzgerald's novel comes to WVU, carrying forward a New York theater tradition built on the idea that a single performer can conjure a whole world.

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Sirens on 4th Avenue
Weekly Highlight Oct 5–12, 2026

Sirens on 4th Avenue

For more than 60 years, Huntington's firefighters have rolled down 4th Avenue to open Fire Prevention Week — this year with a warning about the batteries in your pocket.

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Fifty Years of Apple Butter
Weekly Highlight Oct 5–12, 2026

Fifty Years of Apple Butter

Berkeley Springs marks the 51st Apple Butter Festival, a half-century-old tradition born from a vanished tomato celebration and kept alive by copper kettles, community stubbornness, and a bad apple year nobody would let ruin it.

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250 Strong
Weekly Highlight Oct 5–12, 2026

250 Strong

WVU's Sports Hall of Fame welcomes its 36th class — headlined by John Beilein and two Canadian soccer giants — in a free, open-to-all ceremony before the Arizona game.

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Three Decades of Homecoming
Weekly Highlight Oct 5–12, 2026

Three Decades of Homecoming

Wayne's Fall Festival marks 30 years with gospel, bluegrass, wrestling, and a Dolly Parton dress-up contest — all free, all on the courthouse square.

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Eight Years of Opening
Weekly Highlight Sep 28 – Oct 5, 2026

Eight Years of Opening

The Mo'town Studio Tour returns for its eighth year, inviting anyone to wander between four working studios and meet visiting artists from across the country.

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Follow the Thread: How a
Weekly Highlight Sep 28 – Oct 5, 2026

Follow the Thread: How a

A guild founded in 1983 turned a road-trip inspiration into a free, self-guided scavenger hunt for hand-stitched quilts hidden in shops across Morgantown — and an online auction that puts children in beds.

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The Train That Takes You to
Weekly Highlight Sep 28 – Oct 5, 2026

The Train That Takes You to

For four hours each autumn, the New Tygart Flyer carries passengers up the Shavers Fork of the Cheat River to a remote West Virginia waterfall that for decades was reachable only on foot.

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Prints Charming
Weekly Highlight Sep 28 – Oct 5, 2026

Prints Charming

At the Art Lab on Willey Street, WVU printmakers sell their work, hand-print T-shirts on the spot, and raise money to get themselves to Baton Rouge.

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Weekly Highlight Sep 7–13, 2026

After 172 Years, the

With roots reaching back to 1854, Monongalia County's fair debuts this September at a brand-new permanent fairgrounds near Morgantown, ending nearly two centuries of borrowed fields and temporary setups.

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A Century of Harvest and
Weekly Highlight Sep 7–13, 2026

A Century of Harvest and

Deep in the West Virginia mountains, the tiny Swiss village of Helvetia keeps a century-old fair alive with yodeling, alphorn music, and the spinning flags of the old country.

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A Century of Swiss
Weekly Highlight Sep 7–13, 2026

A Century of Swiss

Deep in the West Virginia mountains, a village of barely sixty people has been throwing one of the state's oldest agricultural fairs since 1917 — and on September 12, 2026, it will do it again for the 109th time.

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A Town That Shares a Name
Weekly Highlight Sep 7–13, 2026

A Town That Shares a Name

In Paw Paw, West Virginia, a tiny Potomac River town, the third annual Pawpaw Festival turns its namesake native fruit into a day of music, tastings, and Appalachian pride.

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A Labor Day Tradition
Weekly Highlight Aug 31 – Sep 6, 2026

A Labor Day Tradition

After four years folded into the Fireman's Carnival, the South Morgan Volunteer Fire Company's beloved Yard Party returns as a stand-alone celebration of community, food, and firefighting skill.

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A Humble Crop, a
Weekly Highlight Aug 31 – Sep 6, 2026

A Humble Crop, a

For nearly nine decades, the Preston County Buckwheat Festival has turned Kingwood, West Virginia, into a gathering place for tens of thousands, celebrating the region's buckwheat heritage with cakes, parades, and community spirit.

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Weekly Highlight Aug 31 – Sep 6, 2026

A Homecoming in Clarksburg

The Grammy-winning singer headlines the 47th West Virginia Italian Heritage Festival, a Labor Day tradition born in 1979 to honor the immigrants who built a community.

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Weekly Highlight Aug 24–30, 2026

The Folklorist and the Log Cabin: Gerry Milnes Brings the Appalachian Frontier Home to Elkins

Fresh from being named the 2026 National Heritage Fellow, folklorist Gerald "Gerry" Milnes traces the log cabin's long journey through the American frontier at the Appalachian Forest Discovery Center.

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The Folklorist and the Log
Weekly Highlight Aug 24–30, 2026

The Folklorist and the Log

Fresh from being named the 2026 National Heritage Fellow, folklorist Gerald "Gerry" Milnes traces the log cabin's long journey through the American frontier at the Appalachian Forest Discovery Center.

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Half a Century of Southern
Weekly Highlight Aug 24–30, 2026

Half a Century of Southern

On the final Friday of August, the Florida-bred arena-rock veterans bring their five-decade catalog of FM-radio staples to a free riverfront show in Morgantown.

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