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Proofed by: phadkep Time: 11:02 - 08-03-2007 Separation: C M Y K HIGH-RES PROOF. IMAGES ARE RIPPED. FULL PROOF INTEGRITY. Product: SOURCE LayoutDesk: SOU PubDate: 08-05-07 Zone: DC Edition: EE Page: RDTRIP C M Y K M6 SOURCE 08-05-07 DC EE M6 CMYK M6 Sunday, August 5, 2007 x The Washington Post RoadTrip Virginia’s Woodstock Lets the Sunshine In WHERE: Woodstock, Va. Vintage vinyl and souvenirs from the Summer of Love pile up along the Route 11 Yard Crawl. WHY: Mellow waters, Main Street music and miles of yard-sale shopping. 11 0 1 The countywide yard sale on Aug. 11 wends through the center of Woodstock. HOW FAR: About seven miles from start to finish. MILE PARK LANE MAURERTOWN MILL ROAD ZION et’s put flowers in our hair and hippie-dance on over to Woodstock. (No, Maurertown CHUR ROAD CH not that one, the Virginia one.) Aug. 15-18 marks the anniversary of the Woodstock Music and Art Fair, the seminal mud-and-jam festival held 38 years ago on a 600-acre dairy farm in Upstate New York (the concert was technically in Bethel). If you can remember it, the saying goes, odds are you weren’t there. And if you were born L 81 too late, indulging in a pint of Ben & Jerry’s Wavy Gravy is hardly the same experi- ence. Instead, go find peace and love in the Shenandoah Valley town that shares the festival’s name. With about 4,000 residents, Virginia’s Woodstock is one-one-hundredth the size of the crowd that assembled in Max Yasgur’s pasture to see Jimi Hendrix riff on “The Star-Spangled Banner.” But Woodstock Jr. still has plenty of flower-child attractions. Shops along Main Street ply local organic produce, tie-dyed T-shirts and handmade guitars. There’s also a free bookstore (donations are accepted) and free outdoor con- certs on select Friday nights in Main Street Park. This Saturday, you can go trippin’ down Route 11 on a 32-mile crawl that will feature 350 yard sales. At past barterfests, , folks have made deals on stuff from tractors to Tupperware. This year, local DJ Alan Valley Ballooning Pifer Stringed Kiss the sky with Arehart will sell a stash of records from the age of Aquarius. custom guitars. which send the flying hot-air If you’re not careful, you just might have a flashback to 1969. “We have had people Let those fingers rip a la Jimi Hendrix at No contraptions over Woodstock Instruments, where luthier Owen Pifer crafts rth F and across the mountains. stop by the town office and ask where the festival was,” says Jane Beasley, the town’s or business enhancement coordinator. Her response: “Wrong state.” Yet it does have a k Sh en similar groove . an doa 11 h — Ben Chapman R ive NORT r Fly your freak flag at a free H S Give peas a chance Road Trip maps are available at www.washingtonpost.com/roadtrip, Music on Main concert, TREET at the Market in as are addresses and hours of operation (be sure to check before you go). then brag that you saw Woodstock. Try Have an idea for a trip? E-mail [email protected]. bands perform at Woodstock. ’em dry-roasted or M coated in wasabi. SPRING STREET IL CO L R U OAD RT WEDNESDAY IN STYLE Escapes takes the plunge (through chutes, LOCUST ST. slides and more) at a new water park in Hershey, Pa. STREET All you need is love — not money — at the Woodstock Cafe & Shoppes’ free bookstore. Woodstock In honor of Max Yasgur and his dairy farm-cum-concert site, buy some EXIT 283 goat cheese and organic greens at the Woodstock Farmers Market. 42 RESE RVOIR ROAD Meet other midnight ramblers for a deep-fried onion loaf and Blue Moon microbrews at Spring House Taver Born to be wild? n Let Blue Mountain . Leather suit you up in easy-rider duds. Driver’s route PENNSYLVANIA 70 MARYLAND 81 81 70 W.VA. 270 95 D.C. Woodstock 66 StartStartStart hereherehere 81 At the Narrow Passage Boat Launch Willow Grove For clothes with a conscience — and a hippie the Shenandoah River, which flows th C VIRGINIA , m H streak — slip on vegan sandals ,and which a tie-dyed specializes ellow out along A PM Blue Canoe Crew 95 rough Woodstock. 11 AN T-shirt from LAN DING R in river-ready clothes and sporting gear. 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