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The 12th annual Pork, Peahut and Pine Festival will open on the grounds of historic Chippokes Plantation State Park in Surry County on Saturday, July 18.
The two-day event, which began as a Bicentennial activity in 1979, is now one of the states most popular folk festivals, and annually attracts an estimated 40,000 people.
The festival salutes the three agriculture products which the rural Southside County is known, and a committee of volunteers selects exhibits each year to advance that theme. An antique stationary peanut picker, always a popular feature, is operated each year to the delight of visitors. Nearby steam and gasoline engines puff and chug and visitors can examine horse drawn equipment that once did a variety of tasks.
In addition to educational exhibits, the festival will feature more than 235 artists and craftsmen who will show and sell their wares on grounds around the antebellum Chippokes manor house. The crafts range from handmade dolls to brooms and jewelry.
For many visitors, the highlight of the festival each year is food prepared by Surry County church and civic club members. Food concessions are limited to the county's charitable organizations and the event has become a primary source of their operating budgets. They prepare a variety of foods, mostly from peanuts and pork, and barrels of iced tea and lemonade.
The festival opens at 10 a.m. on Saturday and Sunday and closes each day at 6 p.m. Entertainment includes country, bluegrass and gospel singers is offered continuously on two outdoor stages.
There is no admission charge for the festival, but a $2 per car parking fee is charted at the entrance to the
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