This year’s Bluemont Fair featured touches of town-specific history and the history of American Indians in the area.
Recalling times when the village roads were for horses and foot traffic only.
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Indian Village
A joint project of the Sanctuary on the Trail and the Bluemont Montessori School — a teepee and wigwam were erected, Native American crafts were displayed, and demonstrations of Indian dancing were presented.
New Banners Denote Historic Buildings

Also at this year’s Bluemont Fair and throughout the village: the bright blue banners with the names and dates of Bluemont’s historic buildings. The banners—designed, produced, and hung by George and Natalie Evancheck of Friends of Bluemont—will remain through the Blue Ridge autumn leaf season. Friends of Bluemont’s palm-card-sized walking tour map of the village will be available at the post office, the Bluemont Community Center, and the Bluemont General Store. The map also features a square QR code, which, when scanned with your smartphone, directs you to more information about our historic places on the web.
Future Fairs
The Academy’s first public use in over a century occurred in mid-October when the Bluemont Fair Committee selected the Snickersville Academy to host its 2016 “wrap-up” session. Some new ideas about next year’s Bluemont Fair are already bubbling up. In particular, people are talking about how to weave more elements of re-enactment into the annual fair. Strolling impersonators of national and local historical personages? Take your picture with George Washington? Or Colonel Mosby? Skits about the lives of children who went to school at the Snickersville Academy? More wagon rides into Boulder Crest?
Following this event, Friends of Bluemont completed the Snickersville Academy restoration by whitewashing the building to enhance its period authenticity and seal the log and chinking walls.