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The Big Spring Festival celebrates our bountiful supply of water with entertainment, crafts, fish stocking, and more.
The Bellefonte Children's Fair, held on a Saturday in early June features five fun-filled hours of activities, games, entertainment, raffles and displays.
The Bellefonte Cruise, Father's Day weekend, includes an open cruise, sock hop, all-vehicle show, parade of show vehicles, motorcycle poker run and more.
The Bellefonte Arts & Crafts Fair includes over 100 artists and crafters, family entertainment, good food and children's activities on Friday and Saturday.
The Fall Festival is held on a weekend afternoon in Talleyrand Park. Create a scarecrow, carve a pumpkin, enjoy ghost stories, music, food and more.
Bellefonte Victorian Christmas offers a taste of Christmas past, with our historic homes tour, an arts & crafts show, concerts, horse-drawn buggy rides, gingerbread house contest, railroad rides, strolling entertainment, breakfast with Santa, a Victorian tea party.
ART Thrives on 45
Wine and Dine with The Queen and her Artistic Court
August 11-13, 2006
Take a step back in time as you enter this restored Queen Anne Victorian home nestled in the center of Victorian Bellefonte’s historic residential district. Check in at your convenience on Friday evening. Enjoy a hands on experience of Victorian life as you tour the bed and breakfast, play the player piano, crank up the victrola, enjoy a glass of wine, preview the work of six local artists, and get to know the other guests. If you arrive early enough, you may have dinner on your own at one of the area’s many fine restaurants; or join with some of your new friends who share your interest in the arts.
The breakfast Saturday morning will feature fresh red raspberries picked from the dew covered bushes in the back yard of the bed and breakfast. Several local artists will join you for breakfast and conversation before you embark on a tour of their studios where you will get to observe each artist demonstrating their talent.
Participating artists include:
Ziggy Cole, who creates hand built figurine sculptures with glasses and lusters. Anyone who has attended the Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts in years past will remember the delightful figures in the window of Moyer’s Jewelry Store.
Susan Nicholas Gephart, whose landscape paintings capture the rolling hills, farmland, and open vistas of Central Pennsylvania.
Michelle Montes. Who works in a variety of mediums and subjects. She does horse portraits, landscapes, and still life in a very impressionistic manner.
Donna Rochon, who creates wearable art with her stylish handbags and hats in conservative or whimsical fabrics.
Lunch will be served in the gallery of The Gamble Mill where the juried work of “Sixteen Photographers” is on display. “The Mill”, a landmark since 1786, features fine dining in the rustic atmosphere of a mill built long before Bellefonte’s rich iron ore created unprecedented wealth and extravagant Victorian architecture.
After lunch, your hostess at The Queen will lead you on an optional walking tour of historic Victorian Bellefonte where you will learn more about its fine architecture and political heritage of seven governors.
Following your walking tour, you may continue your tour of artist’s studios after which you may return to your room for an optional massage, walk through the gardens, or sit on the front porch.
After store hours, attend a private showing of over sixty artists at Etcetera, Etc. where you will have an opportunity to relax with artists and guests, enjoy a glass of wine and try on a new hat! These Award winning national artists specialize in Pottery, Hats, Glass, Jewelry, Handbags, Wood, Fiber, Paper, Metal, Resin, Textile, Collage, Paintings, Photography & More! Browse through the many collections of unique, one-of-a kind and limited addition classic, traditional, whimsical and contemporary designs in all media. The artists welcome custom orders.
A short walk to The Garman Opera House will take you to the fine dining of LaBella Trattoria where your dinner is included in your package. The artists will be invited to join you for more conversation.
Sunday morning breakfast promises to be as delicious as the first. The day is left open for you to return to your favorite studio or perhaps pick up a few nostalgic items at one of the antiques and collectibles shops in town.
Visit www.victorianbellefonte.com for information and photos about what to do, where to shop, and where to eat in Bellefonte. You may even decide to add an extra day to your trip to fit it all in!! And don’t forget that all the arts and museums of Penn State University are just 10 minutes away.
Package price including lodging, two receptions, two breakfasts, one lunch, one dinner, studio tours, and guided walking tour $265 per person double occupancy
Package price including lodging, one reception, two breakfasts, studio tours, and guided walking tour $190 per person double occupancy
Optional massage ad-on $75 per person. Must be scheduled prior to arrival.
Fees for non-lodging guests:
Saturday Breakfast
Studio Tours by appointment only; no fee; call The Queen for schedules.
Saturday lunch at The Gamble Mill ~$20.00
Walking Tour of Historic Bellefonte ~$5.00
Reception at Etcetera,Etc. ~$15.00
Dinner at LaBella ~Dutch Treat
Reservations must be made by calling The Queen (814-355-7946) on or
before Tuesday, August 8, 2006.