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GO GASTON. GET OUTSIDE.

Check out these stops on Gaston County’s Craft Beverage Trail: Cavendish Brewing Company 207 N. Chester St, Gastonia, NC Fiddler’s Vineyard 320 Flint Hill Rd, Cherryville, NC Growler USA 300 S Firestone St #150, Gastonia, NC Muddy River Distillery 1500 River Drive, Belmont, NC Rivermen Brewing Company 52 Erving Street, Belmont, NC Ole Dallas Brewery 136 Durkee Ln, Dallas, NC York Chester Brewing Company 1500 River Dr, Belmont, NC District 8 Beer Company 900 South Fork Village Dr, Belmont, NC

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Whether you are a long time resident or new to the area, you’ll find local & regional events and destinations in the Destination Magazine™ that will have you saying “I never knew that was there.”

The Destination Magazine™ is not a historical document, we will not write about spectacular events you’ve missed. If you are seeking new destinations to explore on your own, or ideas for things to do with friends and family you will find a new experience every month in the Destination Magazine™ .

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Contents DayTrip Destinations

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Gaston County Craft Beverage Trail

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A Revitalization Is Brewing In Downtown Morganton

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NC’s Newest Winery Blends Sweeping Views With Quality Wines

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The Reidsville Fall Jubilee

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Published by: Magic Table Media Group Business Development: Lisa Jay Contributing Writers: Lisa Jay, Craig Distl, Kara McMillan, Project 543, Leah Hughes, RootsRated Media, Jason Luke

Get Your Goat Grain To Glass

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Halloween Daze And Spooky Knights

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Contributing Photographers: Andrew Zachary Digital Imagery, Paul Newton, Sam Dean, Todd Bush

Original Birthplace Of Bourbon In The U.S.

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Big Elkin Brewfest

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Race A Worm, Win $1,000 At Woolly Worm Festival

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Craft Beer By The Dan River, Pickin’ On The Porch

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The list of events in this publication is compiled from various sources dates & times are tentative & subject to change. the Destination Magazine™ is published by Photodude.net LLC 369 Dovefield Drive Summerfield, NC 27358 (704) 706-2365 www.theDestinationMag. com ©2018 All rights reserved. Photodude.net LLC Publisher, Agents & Advertisers do not necessarily condone any activities or advertisement listed in this magazine. The Publisher and its officers, employees, agents, volunteers, and sponsors are not responsible for any loss or damage which might be associated with patronage of any party named in this publication, and is not responsible for any Act of God such as inclement weather, fire, flood, natural or man-made disaster, etc., that are out of the control of the Publisher, which affect the publishing of this magazine.

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DayTrip Destinations Rural Hill Amazing Maize Maze Weekends starting September 15th through November 4th 4431 Neck Rd, Huntersville, NC 28078. www.ruralhill.com 25th Annual Carolina Renaissance Festival Saturdays and Sundays, from September 29th through November 18th. The Festival runs from 10am until 5:30 pm, rain or shine. 16445 Poplar Tent Rd, Huntersville, NC 28078. www.carolina.renfestinfo.com Pickin’ at Priddy’s General Store Saturday October 6th 3:00pm–7:00pm Priddy’s General Store, 2121 Sheppard Mill Rd, Danbury, NC 27016. www.hangingrock.com Look Up and Listen at Hanging Rock State Park Saturday October 6th 7:00pm–9:00pm Hanging Rock Visitor Center, 1790 Hanging Rock Park Rd, Danbury, NC 27016. www.hangingrock.com Watercolor Society of North Carolina 2018 Juried Exhibition Sunday October 7th–Friday November 16th 10 S Jefferson Ave, West Jefferson, NC 28694. www.facebook.com/pg/ WatercolorSocietyNC/ Fall Trolley Tour through Pisgah National Forest Friday October 12th 11:00am–5:00pm “Leaf ” From, 110 E Meeting St, Morganton, NC 28655. www. facebook.com/ridgelinetrolley/

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2nd Annual Philly Cheesesteak & Brew Festival! Saturday October 13th 11:00am–4:00pm Duckworth’s Grill & Taphouse, 16609 Statesville Rd, Huntersville, NC 28078. www.huntersville. duckworths.com Reidsville Fall Jubilee Saturday October 20th 8:00am–9:00pm 303 S Scales St, Reidsville, NC 27320. www.ci.reidsville.nc.us Woolly Worm Festival Saturday October 20th 9:00am–Sunday 21st 9:00am Downtown, Banner Elk, NC 28604. www.woollyworm.com Carolina Thunderbirds Professional Hockey Home Game Fri October 26th 7:35pm–9:05pm Winston Salem Fairgrounds Annex, 414 Deacon Blvd, Winston-Salem, NC 27105. www.carolinathunderbirds.com Big Elkin BrewFest Saturday October 27th 12:00pm–4:00pm Elkin Municipal Park, 334 Elk Spur St, Elkin, NC 28621. www.bigelkinbrewfest.com Rural Hill Sheepdog Trials Saturday November 10th 10:00am–Sunday 11th 5:00pm Hirtoric Rural HIll, 4431 Neck Rd Huntersville, NC 2807. www.ruralhill.com Visit NCTDM.com for the complete destination calendar from your phone, tablet or desktop.

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Gaston County Craft Beverage Trail

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he Gaston County Craft Beverage Trail is sponsoring a sweepstakes using the hashtags: #craftbev and #gogaston during October. They are giving away two YETI coolers. To enter, use the hashtags to share photos from any of the participants mentioned here.

Participants on the trail include North Carolina’s premium rum 20 rotating taps. Rivermen brings the distiller y, a family run vineyard, feel of a big city brewery to historic award-winning breweries, and even Belmont. a couple microbrew pubs.

Between Belmont and Gastonia On the Catawba River in Belmont, is District 8 Beer Company. A Muddy River is a distillery that was microbrew pub that is for anyone founded on a love of rum, and its who likes to tr y new beer. On creators and partners refuse to settle Thursdays & Sundays, you can grab for anything but perfection. Muddy some cuisine off a food truck to pair River is the very first rum distillery in with your rare beer!

North Carolina, effectively knocking the Wright Brothers down a peg or A quick trip into Gastonia will two in terms of revolutionizing the bring you to Cavendish Brewing Old North State.

Company. Cavendish steps outside the box and brings with it quirky York Chester Brewing Company events and Old World Beers. The is located in the same building majority of beers available are just around the back. A true nano uncommon beers here in the “New brewery open to the public since World.” German, Czech and English October 2016. It’s in a former Dye recipes rule the taps here.

Mill with tons of nooks for hosting events and music indoors. Outside Good beer. Good food. Good is a deck and fire pit to enjoy a pint friends. That’s the tagline for Growler of a genuinely handcrafted beer and USA. 100 taps are complemented by enjoy the river. delicious cuisine. Lunch or dinner seven days a week. Cicerone ® A f e w b l o c k s i n a w a y i n Certified Beer Servers recommend downtown Belmont is Rivermen b e v e r a g e s t o p a i r w i t h y o u r Brewing Company. With a large gastronomical choices from the indoor and outdoor eating area and menu.

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A Revitalization Is Brewing In Downtown Morganton

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ike many towns in the postmanufacturing South, Morganton has spent the better part of two decades struggling to keep its economy alive. As it turns out, the town just needed to pop the top on a few craft breweries.

The economy in this foothills town of 18,000 is now hopping thanks to the emergence of a craft beer scene.

canned craft beer in the Southeast.

Catawba’s popularity led it to expand to four breweries, including two in Asheville and one in Charlotte, but Morganton remains the flagship.

Fonta Flora burst onto the scene as the little brewery that dazzled the nation with creative brews from locally-sourced ingredients. It won a gold medal at the Great American Beer Festival in 2014 and captured another gold in 2015. Fonta Flora also launched the State of Origin Beer Festival in Morganton.

Catawba Brewing Co. started Morganton’s beer-vitalization by opening a downtown brewery in 2009. In 2013, Fonta Flora opened The recent opening of Sidejust a few blocks away. Together, tracked Brewery has only helped in they created a synergy that spurred that regard. an overall resurgence in Morganton and set the stage for a third brewery, “People traveling Interstate 40 Sidetracked, to open this past April. may not stop for one brewery or two breweries, but they may stop for “Anybody who loves craft any- three breweries,” says Sidetracked thing wants to go to the home office head brewer Joseph Ackerman. and see where it began, and we’re “Morganton is only two miles off the birthplace of Catawba Brewing, the interstate. It’s a great place to be the birthplace of Fonta Flora, and because you can walk to all three now the birthplace of Sidetracked,” breweries in 10 minutes. Morganton says Ed Phillips, tourism director for is maintaining its small-town feel, Burke County. “We’re not a second- but it is more of a destination town ary or tertiary market for craft beer.” now.”

As Catawba has grown, so has its reputation, largely in part to its White Zombie, the most popular

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NC’s Newest Winery Blends Sweeping Views With Quality Wines

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v i s i t t o Po i n t L o o k o u t Vineyards, located about 10 miles east of downtown Hendersonville, includes sweeping views, a variety of estate wines and a peaceful place to enjoy it all.

will host live music, chef ’s dinners and other memorable events. Our tagline is, ‘Thirty-mile views. Even longer memories.’”

Ten dry and semi-sweet wines make up the wine list. The grapes are Fr o m i t s p e r c h a t o p Po i n t grown on the estate, and the wines Lookout Mountain, nearly 3,000 feet are made at Windsor Run Cellars in in elevation, the winery overlooks the Yadkin Valley. the Blue Ridge Mountains. This time of year, pops of red, orange and The red wines include merlot, yellow dot the landscape. cabernet sauvignon, rosé, petit verdot and Cliffield (a red blend).

Owner Mike Jackson carefully Jackson also owns a line of Jackson’s planned the winer y to include Java coffee shops in Charlotte, so a 4 , 0 0 0 - s q u a r e - f o o t o p e n - a i r Javine, a coffee-and-chocolatepavilion that ser ves as a tasting infused red, combines his two r o o m a n d e v e n t s p a c e . T h e passions in one bottle. pavilion is craf ted from handhewn cedar logs from British A barrel-fermented chardonnay, Columbia. Adjoining the pavilion stainless-steel chardonnay, dr y is a patio with a large firepit. riesling and off-dry riesling make A s p a c i o u s e v e n t l a w n w i t h up the white wines. Point Lookout 270-degree mountain views is also produces mead, a fermented used for weddings and concerts. beverage made from honey.

“This land has been in my family For more infor mation, visit for three generations,” Jackson www.PointLookoutVineyards.com says, “and I wanted to create a or call (828) 808-8923. special place where people can enjoy great wine, beautiful scenery, Learn about Hendersonville, and special times with family and including lodging options, visit www.VisitHendersonvilleNC. friends. In addition to weddings, we com or call (800) 828-4244.

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The Reidsville Fall Jubilee

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t’s the largest festival in Rockingham County, with crowds over 15,000 coming downtown to check out Jubilee vendors and entertainment. Kickoff is 10am, with two stages of live music and entertainment for the whole family!

The Kidz Zone will feature Captain Jim’s Magic Shack with shows throughout the day, Touch-a-Truck, pony rides and Big Bang Boom taking the stage at 11:30am. Other feature bands include pop icons “Sub Radio,” party band the “Clanky Lincolns.” along with the soulful sounds of “Encore Showband.”

New this year to the festival – and the Triad – is an all ages Glow Dance Party! A DJ will spin favorite tunes while you enjoy an amazing light show by Emerald Owl Productions.

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Well over 100 vendors like arts & crafts, and foods and things you can’t find every day. Not to mention all the fabulous specialty shops located in Reidsville’s downtown! Into classic cars? We have those too – with over 150 on display. Antiques your thing? Step into some of our stores on Scales Street. It’s all happening at the Reidsville Fall Jubilee, Saturday, October 20, from 10am - 9pm. It’s free! Parking is located throughout town or ride a free shuttle from Pennrose Mall provided by Pelham Transportation! Come celebrate fall at the Reidsville Jubilee!

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Get Your Goat Grain To Glass

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ainting Goats are a Norman family mascot. If you have seen Fainting Goats, you can’t help but laugh. The goat gets very excited, freeze and fall. All of the other goats around it get freaked out and don’t know what to do.

After a few seconds, the fainting morning and create 50 gallons of goat jumps up and is OK, while liquor is a feeling that is hard to the rest of the goats are thinking, replicate.”

“What the heck just happened?”

The Normans are a small Andrew Norman Owner/Master family of distillers who handcraft Distiller says “In our family, we their spirits from grain to glass. have been the Fainting Goat at Almost all of the grain is grown various times in our lives. Fainting on one farm in North Carolina, in G o a t S p i r i t s o p e n e d J u n e o f Marshville. Currently, they sell their 2016, being able to come in each Award-winning Vodka (Tiny Cat), Continued On Page 30

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Halloween Daze And Spooky Knights At the Carolina Renaissance Festival October 27th and October 28th.

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ooking for a fun, free, and safe place to trick or treat? Put the Renaissance Festival on your Halloween list of things to do with free event admission for kids, free Halloween bags, and treats to be found all around the 25-acre festival village. There will also be a Halloween Treasure hunt and a Halloween costume contest with prizes, courtesy of Party City Stores metro-wide.

Already the Carolina’s largest costume party, the Renaissance Festival becomes the place to start your Halloween celebrations on Saturday and Sunday, from 10am until 5:30pm on October 27th and October 28th. In addition, the festival is a great place to buy your Halloween costume or costume accessories.

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Original Birthplace Of Bourbon In The U.S.

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outhern Distilling Company, is the first legal distiller y to operate in Statesville, North Carolina since 1903. The destination distillery is one of the largest craft distilleries in the countr y and is conveniently located one exit north of the I-40/I-77 interchange. In addition to its own award-winning Southern Star Bourbon and Liqueur products, Southern Distilling offers a broad range of contract distilling and private label services for domestic and foreign brand owners, distilleries and retailers including custom distilling, warehousing, and bottling/ packaging services. The Southern Star product line has earned a total of 18 awards to-date, including two recent Double Gold Medals for their popular Southern Star Double Shot Coffee Bourbon Cream Liqueur.

Southern Star Bourbon Whiskeys and Double Shot Coffee Bourbon Cream Liqueur are available at North Carolina ABC stores statewide.

From a dream conceived on a f a m i l y f a r m , Pe t e & V i e n n a Barger founded Southern Distilling

Company in 2013 as a way to tap into the authenticity of home and heritage and revive the legacy of the region’s deep distilling roots. “Few people know about the rich history of whiskey distilling that dominated North Carolina in the 18th and 19th centuries with this region being one of the largest liquor production hubs in the country at the time,” noted Vienna Barger, Co-Owner and Principal. “ With Souther n Distilling Company, we are setting a new standard and leading the revitalization of whiskey distillation in North Carolina, the original birthplace of bourbon in the U.S. Our mission is to provide the highest quality distilled spirits available to both the local region and other discerning customers worldwide.”

Southern Distilling Company 211 Jennings Rd., Statesville, NC 28625 SouthernDistilling.com Distillery Tours are Mon. through Sat. from 10am until 6pm.

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old craft brews and mild fall temperatures are in store at the Big Elkin BrewFest on the banks of Big Elkin Creek in the The music of Crossing Avery, Will beautiful Elkin Municipal Park. A Jones Band and the Held Up Band superb setting with shade trees, for the attendees’ enjoyment from beside a creek and plenty of space 11am-4pm The event starts at noon, with There will be fabulous food special VIP admission beginning trucks with beer pairable cuisine and at 11am. Enjoy a sampling from a swag tent with some fabulous Big 15+ breweries from around the Elkin Bling to take home. state of NC, including three of the Yadkin Valley local breweries, Big Elkin BrewFest 27, 2018, 12 to 4pm on White Elephant, Skull Camp, Angry Oct. the banks of Big Elkin Creek Troll Brewing. One of the more Elkin Municipal Park, 399 US popular NC breweries, Heist, will be Hwy 268 West, Elkin, NC www.bigelkinbrewfest.com attending.

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See fabulous fall foliage in the Pisgah National Forest and Blue Ridge Parkway near Linville Falls. Guided Trolley Tours depart Morganton each day at 11 and return by 5 pm.

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Race A Worm, Win $1,000 At Woolly Worm Festival

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anner Elk’s famed Woolly Worm Festival is set for the However, the fact that ever y weekend of Oct. 20-21. worm has different color fur bands created a conundrum for the editor, This will be the 41st year for the so the festival was born to designate festival, known worldwide for its the official weather prognosticator. quirky mission of conducting races among woolly bear caterpillars.

Those wishing to race a woolly The races are held both days, with wor m may bring their own or Saturday’s winner getting the honor purchase one from the local PTO for of forecasting the winter weather in a small fee. The races take place in North Carolina’s High Country. heats, with worms racing up vertical strings on the main stage, inching Saturday’s winning worm also their way to the finish line. Winners receives $1,000, while Sunday ’s from each heat then face off in the champion wins $500. finals.

The festivities date to 1978 when The festival also includes craft a magazine editor wanted to publish vendors, plus a variety of live a forecast based on the legend that entertainment and food. the 13 fur bands on a woolly worm foretell the severity of winter’s 13 For festival info, visit: weeks. Brown bands indicate mild www.WoollyWorm.com or call weather, while black bands indicate (800) 972-2183. For lodging options and visitor info, go cold, snowy conditions. to www.BannerElk.com

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2018 Annual Juried Exhibition Opening Reception Sunday, October 7th, 2 to 4pm The Exhibition will run Sunday Oct. 7th to Friday Nov. 16th Florence Thomas Art School

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anjo pickin’, flat foot stompin’, Shakespeare on the trails, and more, October is full of outdoor adventures and entertainment in Stokes County.

light pollution. Lie back on your blanket and listen as an episode of Mountain Stage plays, featuring NC natives Steep Canyon Rangers.

After the radio show, make your way down to The Green Heron for a On Saturday, October 6th enjoy complimentary pint of craft beer and an evening under the stars as WFDD LIVE entertainment.

Public Radio presents “Look Up and Listen.” Beginning in the parking lot Sit a while on the back deck of the of the Hanging Rock Visitor Center Green Heron Alehouse while enjoying at 7pm. Guests gather around the an Octoberfest craft beer from local fire pits and enjoy S’mores, or view North Carolina breweries and LIVE constellations in the night sky from entertainment each Friday and Continued On Page 27 telescopes sur rounded in zero

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at 3pm. Bring your dancing shoes and show off your flat footing skills or learn Saturday evening this month. Also take a new local dance style, warm your advantage of the summer craft beer innards with a different stew or chili blowout, with $5 and $6 pint glasses of each week. remaining summer selections.

Let Stokes Arts and Shared Radiance Local craft beer and October Ales Players take you on a journey at Hanging continue to flow at Castle’s Deli in Rock State Park you won’t forget!

King, NC, offering an extensive hunger Experience Shakespeare’s “As You Like slaying Deli menu featuring Boars Head It” while following actors on a frolicking Meats. Guests enjoy complimentary 1960’s romp through woods, trails and entertainment on Wednesday and Friday other surprising spaces. Be prepared for evenings featuring the likes of Elliott easy hiking and become a part of the Humphries, Jared Stout, James Vincent mingling of Shakespeare’s world and the Carroll, Jukebox Rehab and more. On music, styles and vibe of the late 1960’s, the third Thursday of each month, local on this less than one mile hike. musicians are invited to perform at Open Mic Night, scheduled for October 18th.

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Enjoy that good ole mountain Bluegrass music from the back lawn during Pickin’ at Priddy’s General Store in Danbury, each Saturday this month

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Gaston Craft Continued From Page 8

Ole Dallas Brewery is in, well Dallas. Located on the site of an old scrap yard. Ole Dallas is becoming a regular stop for some of the finest musicians in the area. Even though the brewery is enormous it’s easy to drive right by it. So look for the tiny water tower or the water cooler on steroids (I don’t know which it is) and turn down that dirt road, you won’t miss it!

At the end of the trail is Fiddler’s Vineyard, a small family-owned winery with just that little something different. For us, making wine is a melodious affair. Fiddler’s Vineyard provides customers a selection of locally-grown fruits, fun family activities, and tours of the grounds and facilities.

Gaston County is located just west of Charlotte, NC in the Piedmont section of North Carolina. Gaston County offers visitors a variety of attractions to enhance your trip including museums, botanical gardens, extreme sports, hiking, dining and entertainment parks, art and history and more. www.gogaston.org

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LKNBrewersTrail.com is your source for what’s going on at the breweries around Lake Norman.

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Ghostface Brewing

We offer up to 20 beers, ciders & meads on tap, with a selection of rotating styles, some available on nitro. We also have wine.

We also offer a selection of tasty flatbread pizzas and other special dishes from Davidson Pizza Company located right in our tasting room.

427 East Statesville Ave. Mooresville, NC 28115 704.799.7433 – www.ghostfacebrewing.com

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A full day of regular festival entertainment is complimented by the “Knights of the Living Dead” a zombie jousting challenge, three times daily Halloween weekend.

Children ages 5 through 12, normally a $15 admission, will be admitted free. Treat bags and goodies will be provided free to children each day, while supplies last. Festival vendors and exhibitors throughout the park provide a safe trick or treat environment with free treats for the kids.

The 25th Annual Carolina Renaissance Festival.

North of Charlotte between Concord and Huntersville. The Festival is located on Highway 73 at Poplar Tent Road 10:00 AM until 5:30 PM, rain or shine. carolina.renfestinfo.com

Gin (Emulsion), and our American Single Malt Whiskey (C.B. Fisher’s).

They have a straight bourbon and rye whiskey still aging in the Rick House.

The Straight Rye Whiskey will be available by December this year, as well as a Christmas Spiced Whiskey.

Fainting Goat Spirits will begin to make Rum and Brandy early next year and aged in used Rye Whiskey barrels. Once they have used Bourbon barrels, they will import Tequila to age in those. Andrew is also very excited about upcoming collaborations with local breweries.

Fainting Goat Spirits 115 W. Lewis Street Greensboro, NC 27406 Tours Fri, Sat & Sun. www.FaintingGoatSpirits.com

Breakfast • Lunch • Dinner Boat Slips Available!

828.478.3078

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HUNTERSVILLE

MOORESVILLE

9230 Beatties Ford Road

515 Rinehardt Road

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