That Saturday after Thanksgiving

Dance off that big dinner!

Bring the whole family down to the Shawsville Ruritan Square Dance — 7 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 27.

Celebrate the beginning of the holiday season with all your friends and family and dancers.

It’s granny rules: no drinking, no smoking, no cussing, no spitting on the floor. Just singing and dancing and hooting and hollering.

As always, we’ll be at the Meadowbrook Community Center in downtown Shawsville.

The Meadowbrook Community Center is at 267 Alleghany Spring Road, on the corner of Allegheny Spring and U.S. 460 in the heart of Shawsville.

There’s no admission fee, but the Ruritans are asking for a $5 donation. Drinks and snacks will be available for a donation, too. The Shawsville Ruritans, famous for their Fourth of July parade and celebration, are involved in all sorts of community projects, but one of their main goals is to provide scholarships for Eastern Montgomery High School graduates bound for college.

Y’all come!

 

 

Here comes another square dance!

NO TRACTORS REQUIRED!

October’s square dance is a little more than a week away. (7 p.m. Oct. 23)

Come on out and square dance in circles at the Meadowbrook Community Center. Fort Vause will be there. So will juggler, author, columnist and square dance caller extraordinaire Tom Angleberger. You should be, too.

You can find a map here, if you need one. If you have any questions, email ephraimvause@aol.com.

Y’all come!

Today’s the day!

More banjo players, basses, fiddlers and mandolin players than you can shake a stick at.

We’ll be dancing tonight at the Shawsville Ruritan Square Dance!

The music starts at 7 p.m. at the Meadowbrook Community

As always, Tom Angleberger, renowned juggler, newspaper columnist, restaurant reviewer and children’s author, will be calling the dances.

Fort Vause will saw and strum and pick and plunk their way through the evening with special guest fiddler Rob Zisette of Toss the Possum. We’ll have tunes fit for square dancing, flat footing and waltzing and maybe a few songs you can listen to while you catch your breath between dances.

It’s granny rules: no drinking, no smoking, no cussing, no spitting on the floor. Just singing and dancing and hooting and hollering.

Come on out and bring some friends! (No square dancing experience required.)

If you have questions, or want more information, email ephraimvause@aol.com or visit http://shawsvilleruritan.wordpress.com or www.blueridgemusic.org/SearchResultDetail.asp?EditRecord=1077&Region=6.

We will have no diggeridos at this event.

Promenade into a new season.

The Shawsville Ruritan Club Square Dance welcomes fall with a square dance. We get the dancing season started Saturday, Sept. 25, 2010, at 7 p.m.

Fort Vause will be there playing songs sort of like this.

St. Anne’s Reel by Fort Vause.

Tom Angleberger, renowned juggler, newspaper columnist, restaurant reviewer and children’s author, will be calling the dances.

It’s granny rules: no drinking, no smoking, no cussing, no spitting on the floor. Just singing and dancing and hooting and hollering.

As always, we’ll be at the Meadowbrook Community Center in downtown Shawsville.

The Meadowbrook Community Center is at 267 Alleghany Spring Road, on the corner of Allegheny Spring and U.S. 460 in the heart of Shawsville.

There’s no admission fee, but the Ruritans are asking for a $5 donation. Drinks and snacks will be available for a donation, too. The Shawsville Ruritans, famous for their Fourth of July parade and celebration, are involved in all sorts of community projects, but one of their main goals is to provide scholarships for Eastern Montgomery High School graduates bound for college.

We’re coming back! Y’all come on back, too!

Independence Day Fireworks

We had a glorious Independence Day celebration — the parade, the food, the music, the old cars, the antique farm equipment, the games and magicians for the kids, and on and on. And, of course, the fireworks. These photos give you some idea. Thanks to Lora Gordon for letting us “borrow” them.

Shawsville Independence Day Celebration

The big Shawsville Independence Day celebration is July 3 this year.

Things begin with 5K race at 8 a.m. (Sign up at the Shawsville Middle School if you’re not already registered.)

The parade — featuring the World Famous Shawsville Ruritan Marching Kazoo Band — begins at 5:30 p.m. We’ll end up down at the old football field, where there will be food, music, games for the kids, old cars, a magician, and displays of all sorts from local non-profits and civic groups.  And, of course, we’ll have fireworks .

We generally have the best fireworks display in the New River Valley. This year’s is supposed to be biggest yet.

The Ruritans will also auction off all sorts of donated items — we’ve had everything from vacation packages to artwork to TVs and appliances. It’s our biggest fundraiser of the year, so you can get a good deal and help out some good causes.

And — for those of you who like the square dance — Fort Vause will be start playing right after the parade.

Y’all come!

The last dance of the season

Saturday, May 22, will be the last  Shawsville Ruritan Square Dance last until September.

We will have no diggeridos at this event.

(It will not look like this, by the way.)

As always, Fort Vause will saw and strum and pick and plunk its way through the evening– beginning at 7 p.m. — then we’ll pack it up until September.

As always, there will be square dancing and flat footing and waltzing and two-stepping and maybe a few songs you can listen to while you catch your breath between dances.

Tom Angleberger, renowned juggler, newspaper columnist, and increasingly famous children’s author, will be calling the dances.

(Ask him about Yoda and origami.)

It’s granny rules: no drinking, no smoking, no cussing, no spitting on the floor. Just singing and dancing and hooting and hollering.

The Meadowbrook Community Center is at 267 Alleghany Spring Road, on the corner of Allegheny Spring and U.S. 460 in the heart of Shawsville.

There’s no admission fee, but the Ruritans are asking for a $5 donation. Drinks and snacks will be available for a donation, too. The Shawsville Ruritans, famous for their Fourth of July parade and celebration, are involved in all sorts of community projects, but one of their main goals is to provide scholarships for Eastern Montgomery High School graduates bound for college.

Come on out and bring some friends! (No square dancing experience required.)

Don’t make us like this guy.

There’s a map here.

If you need more information, email ephraimvause@aol.com.

And please check out some of the links to the right!

Square dance, Garden Day, and I don’t know what all

Saturday’s square dancing begins at 7 p.m. You can skip right to that if you want to, but Meadowbrook will be hopping long before then. (This may be the last dance of the season, so don’t miss it!)

(You may have seen our square dance caller on TV recently. His latest book, The Strange Case of  Origami Yoda, is getting a lot of attention. He’ll have a big book bash at the Meadowbrook library  Sunday afternoon.)

EastMont Garden Day,  sponsored by EastMont Garden Club, kicks off this season’s Shawsville Farmers Market at 9am It runs until 1pm in the Meadowbrook courtyard, just outside where we do the dancing. The garden club will be selling plants, and a bunch of Farmers Market vendors will be there:

Brush Creek Aquaponics
Sandy and Ralph Birkenmaier will have duck eggs (collect the whole set of ducky feathers!), handcrafted soaps and Soothing Milk Bath (for those achy muscles from working in the garden), greeting cards and book marks (with photos of their ducks, plants, and local scenes), and button badges. Come meet Rover the Duck. Visit their website at BrushCreekAqua.webs.com.

EastMont Massage Therapy
Ini Beckman from Eastmont Massage Therapy at Meadowbrook will be there with her massage chair. Go see her if you have a specific problem or none!

Five Fields Farm
Meredith and Steve will have 15 varieties of heirloom tomato plants, fresh rhubarb and eggs. They’ll also have a large selection of homemade jam with free samples, so be sure to stop by and try some!

Loria Hylton
Loria will have hand knit creations including dishcloths, scarves and toddler hats.

MaggieBeth’s
The Thorntons will have cookies, cookie mixes, Jezebel sauce, Squirrel Crunch (a snack mix for human beings, not our little bushy-tailed friends),  goat cheese spreads and gouda cheese.

Mount Pleasant Eggs
Jennifer will have organic, free range eggs for sale.

New River Gourmet
Melissa will have a vast selection of gourmet goodies, snack mixes, dried fruit and gift baskets.

It’s also the grand opening of the YMCA thrift store and the YMCA pottery studio and I expect the museum will be open, too.

Big day in Shaws Vegas.

Y’all come!

(There’s a map here.)

Dancing in April

More banjo players, basses, fiddlers and mandolin players than you can shake a stick at.

April showers bring the Shawsville Ruritan Square Dance!

(And it may be the last dance of the season. We never know about May.)

As almost always, it starts at 7 p.m., on the fourth Saturday of the month (April 24 this time) at the Meadowbrook Community Center (behind the library) in beautiful downtown Shawsville.

Fort Vause will saw and strum and pick and plunk their way through the evening. There will be square dancing and flat footing and waltzing and two-stepping and maybe a few songs you can listen to while you catch your breath between dances.

Tom Angleberger, renowned juggler, newspaper columnist, and children’s author, will be calling the dances. (Ask him about origami.)

It’s granny rules: no drinking, no smoking, no cussing, no spitting on the floor. Just singing and dancing and hooting and hollering.

The Meadowbrook Community Center is at 267 Alleghany Spring Road, on the corner of Allegheny Spring and U.S. 460 in the heart of Shawsville.

There’s no admission fee, but the Ruritans are asking for a $5 donation. Drinks and snacks will be available for a donation, too. The Shawsville Ruritans, famous for their Fourth of July parade and celebration, are involved in all sorts of community projects, but one of their main goals is to provide scholarships for Eastern Montgomery High School graduates bound for college.

Come on out and bring some friends! (No square dancing experience required.)

If you have questions, or want more information, email ephraimvause@aol.com.

There’s a map here: www.blueridgemusic.org/SearchResultDetail.asp?EditRecord=1077&Region=6.

Check out some of the links at the right!

Get ready for the March dance!

It’s almost time for the Shawsville Ruritan Square Dance!

It starts at 7 p.m., on the fourth Saturday of the month (March. 27 this time) at the Meadowbrook Community Center (behind the library) in beautiful downtown Shawsville.  Fort Vause will saw and strum and pick and plunk their way through the evening. There will be square dancing, flat footing and waltzing and two-stepping and maybe a few songs you can listen to while you catch your breath between dances.

Tom Angleberger, renowned juggler, newspaper columnist, and children’s author, will be calling the dances.

It’s granny rules: no drinking, no smoking, no cussing, no spitting on the floor. Just singing and dancing and hooting and hollering.

The Meadowbrook Community Center is at 267 Alleghany Spring Road, on the corner of Allegheny Spring and U.S. 460 in the heart of Shawsville.

There’s no admission fee, but the Ruritans are asking for a $5 donation. Drinks and snacks will be available for a donation, too. The Shawsville Ruritans, famous for their Fourth of July parade and celebration, are involved in all sorts of community projects, but one of their main goals is to provide scholarships for Eastern Montgomery High School graduates bound for college.

Come on out and bring some friends! (No square dancing experience required.)

If you have questions, or want more information, email ephraimvause@aol.com.

There’s a map here: www.blueridgemusic.org/SearchResultDetail.asp?EditRecord=1077&Region=6.