eNewsletter for Virginia                                       October 2007
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October is Virginia Wine Month — Salute to Wine Lovers!
vineyards ready for harvest Experience Virginia's spectacular fall foliage, crisp autumn air, and the perfect bouquet of Virginia wine in your souvenir wine glass at participating wineries celebrating the harvest of the vine!

Enjoy gourmet meals paired with Virginia wines, live entertainment and other attractions, tours with the winemakers and spectacular wine festivals.
~ October is Virginia Wine Month

Also, enjoy a driving tour along one of Virginia's Wine Trails, and picnic in the vineyards overlooking the brilliant fall foliage.
60 Fall Walking Tours — History, Nature & Haunted . . .
Aerial view of Monticello in the fall Fall is the ideal time for walking tours in colorful Virginia. Tour the plantation community at Monticello, the grounds of Montpelier, and even take your dog on Richmond's "History Hounds" tour.

Enjoy guided tours of neighborhoods — New Market's "Boys, Bugles & Skirts" with costumed tour guides and guided tours of historic Staunton. Plenty of nature walks and spooky haunted hikes should lure you outdoors this month, too.
~ Fall Walking Tours
~ Virginia Trails
Oktoberfests, Apple Butter & Peanuts

Kids playing in leavesWhatever the harvest, Virginians will turn it into a festival and celebrate! Pick apples and watch applebutter bubble in big iron pots at various orchards.

It's peanuts and peanut butter, seafood, the migration of sea birds, and history & heritage festivals with ethnic foods. There's even an air show, hot-air balloon rally and railroad festival this month along with arts and crafts and plenty of bluegrass music.
~ Fall Festivals

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Coming up in the next eNewsletter: The First Thanksgiving and
100 Miles of Lights
Colonial Williamsburg's Grand Illumination

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