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Historic Bethabara Park Visitor Center and Historic Buildings
are open
April 1 through November 30 (Closed Thanksgiving).
10:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Tuesday-Friday
1:30-4:30 p.m. Weekends
Guided tour-Historic Gemeinhaus: adults $2 and children $1. Ground, gardens, and trails open free every day, year-round.
The Museum Gift Shop offers unique handcrafted baskets, pottery and tinware as well as books, colonial collectibles, and items for children.
2005 Special Events Highlights
Bark in Bethabara Park.
Saturday, April 16. 9:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m.
Greet the spring with your family dog and join your neighbors in the Park for a parade, exhibits, contests, special dog events, a silent auction and food, all to raise money for the children's cancer support group at Brenner's Children's Hospital and canine cancer research at NC State Veterinary School. Museum Shop open. Charges for food and certain activities. www.barkintheparknc.org.
Tour de Cure Backcountry Foothills Challenge
Saturday, April 23. 8 a.m.-4 p.m.
Historic Bethabara Park will be the starting point for this exciting annual fundraiser. Bicycle along back roads and historic trails and help raise money for the American Diabetes Association. Choose from 25K, 50K, 100K, and 100-mile routes. For more information or to register for the event, go to www.diabetes.org/tour.
Celtic Festival Ceilidh ("Kay-Lee")
Friday, May 13. 6:30-9:00 p.m.
Kick off the fourth annual Celtic Festival in the Bethabara Pavilion with a traditional Scottish evening of Celtic food and family entertainment, featuring live musicians. Charge for food; event free of charge.
Celtic Festival & Highland Games
Saturday, May 14. 10:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
Salute the Celtic contribution to colonial Bethabara with nationally known main-stage musicians. Old and new this year will be lots of great Celtic food, Celtic dancing, border collie demonstrations, Celtic crafts, Highland athletic competitions, Scottish clan tents, marching pipe bands, the annual Parade of Tartans and the colonial NC Highland Regiment, as well as children's activities such as costumes, colonial and Highland games, and Scots militia drill. The Fiddle & Bow Society is arranging for the live Celtic music. Museum Shop open. Charge for food; event free of charge.
Mad Hatter's Tea Party
Sunday, May 22. 2-5 p.m.
Enjoy food, Victorian arts and crafts for kids, performances by the Winston-Salem Children's Chorus and a silent auction featuring hats decorated by local artists—all to raise money for the Winston-Salem Children's Chorus. You can also meet and greet Alice and the Mad Hatter. For more information, contact Hayley Bowland, mail@wschildrenschorus.org
Bethabara Concert Band & Family Evening
Thursday, June 9. 6-8 p.m.
Celebrate the arrival of summer by bringing the family, a blanket and picnic dinner and enjoying hay wagon rides, children's colonial games, old-time town ball, Dino's New York hot dogs and the band in concert beginning at 7 p.m. Charge for food; event free of charge.
Independence Day Celebration
Sunday, July 3. 1:30-4:30 p.m.
Treat your family to an old-fashioned Bethabara Fourth, including the Concert Band, 25˘ hay wagon rides, two-bit (25˘) ice cream cones, magician, Uncle Sam on stilts, craft demonstrations, strolling musicians, the Colonial Heritage Dancers, farm animals, mounted colonial militia, an early baseball game, a children's parade and traditional Liberty Pole decorating. Museum Shop open. No admission charge to the overall event.
Bethabara Concert Band & Family Evening
Thursday, July 14. 6-8 p.m.
This popular evening series continues with your family picnic, wagon rides, children's colonial games, town ball, Dino's fat hot dogs and drinks, and a fun-filled band concert at 7 p.m. Museum Shop open. Charge for food; event free of charge.
Bethabara Concert Band & Family Evening
Thursday August 11. 6-8 p.m.
Relax in the shade with your family picnic, wagon rides, children's colonial games, town ball, Dino's fat hot dogs and drinks, and a fun-filled band concert at 7 p.m. Charge for food; event free of charge.
Bethabara Concert Band & Family Evening
Thursday, September 8. 5:30-7:30 p.m.
Enjoy more family fun with your picnic, a blanket, hot dogs and drinks, hay wagon rides, children's activities, and a lively band concert at 6:30 p.m. Charge for food; event free of charge.
BOOKMARKS Festival
Saturday, September 10. 9:30-5:00 p.m.; music until 8:00 p.m.
A fun-filled, one-day outdoor tented book festival with national, regional and local authors representing a variety of topics and genres. Events will range from readings by authors to panel discussions to booksignings, to chef demonstrations, to hands-on workshops and much, much more. Special children's and teen areas will offer age-appropriate activities. A Music Stage and food vendors also. Free admission. www.bookmarksbookfestival.org 336-722-9681.
Apple Festival
Saturday, September 17. 10:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
Come celebrate apples, cider, pies, and more food again this year with main-stage American Heritage musicians, vendors, the traditional "band wagon" parade, the Apple Garden, down home entertainment, local orchards selling new and heirloom apples, 25˘ wagon rides, children's games and colonial re-enactors demonstrating old-time apple cooking and crafts. Museum Shop open. Charge for food; event free of charge.
Bethabara Concert Band & Family Evening
Thursday, October 13. 5:30-7:30 p.m.
Bring the family in costume to celebrate Dark in the Park with your picnic, hay wagon rides among the lighted Jack O' Lanterns, hot dogs and drinks, children's activities, a drawing for the "Great Pumpkins," and the annual Halloween band concert with band members in costume to play spooky music at 6:30 p.m. Charge for food; event free of charge.
Four Christmases for Children
Saturday, December 3. 5:30-8 p.m.
Come create memories with your children at a Backcountry Celtic Christmas around a bonfire, a children's lantern parade through the colonial fields and palisade fort, followed by a traditional colonial children's candlelight love feast in the 1788 Gemeinhaus, an old-fashioned tavern Christmas "gambols" of music and games in the 1803 Brewer's House and finally a jolly Squire's Christmas country dance and entertainment, to round out this evening of four memorable Christmases for Children. Museum Shop open. Adults $3; children $2. For reservations call 924-8191.
Piedmont Chamber Singers Candlelight Concerts
Sunday, December 11. 6 p.m. & 7 p.m.
Begin the Christmas season with this beautiful concert of traditional carols rendered memorably in the historic 1788 Gemeinhaus, with its amazing acoustics, and then enjoy refreshments in the visitor center. Museum Shop open
For more information on events, please call the Park at (336) 924-8191. After hours, you can leave a message at Ext. 23 and someone will return your call.
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