Evening star., 1941-06-22
BY JACQUES FUTRELLE, Jr.,
Travel Editor

"Quickie" vacations-more than
a week end but less than week
promise to come into greater popu-
larity this summer, throwing the
spotlight on events within conserva-
tive travel distances from Washing
ton. In the B. D. years before
defense) this type of vacation had
limited following-limited not be-
cause it lacked appeal but because
offices found arrangements for
short-measure vacations difficult to
work out. Defense has somewhat
changed the picture, making the
idea preferable in some firms and
agencies to extended lump" time
! of.
The travel page today begins a
calendar briefly calling attention to
number of spectacles and attrac-
tions that can be visited in such
"ouickie" trips. The list, compiled
by the American Automobile Assocl-
alton, will appear every two weeks,
far enough in advance for plans to
be made for the journey.
In presenting events for the first
part of July, number of localized
celebrations of Independence Day
we're omitted. Outstanding in tour
ist interest, within a radius of one
or two days' travel from Washing
ton, include:
July Educational soaring and
gliding contests at Elmira, N. Y,
where all the new wrinkles in motor
less flight will be demonstrated.
Hitler's capture of Crete by use OF
these noiseless weapons has renewed
interest in gliding not only as
sport for civilians but as a military
strategem being given serious
thought by Army and Navy officers.
July 3-Opening date for the 1941
production of Paul Green's The
Lost Colony" symphonic drama to
be presented on Roanoke Island, off
the North Carolina coast, every We'd
nesday through Sunday until Sep
tember /. Cast of about 250.
July 3-5-West Virginia's Rhodo-
dendron Festival, at Webster
Springs. where the beautiful blooms
of the West Virginia mountains Will
be saluted with merriment ana
festivity. More than $4,000 attend
annually.
July 4-Westmoreland County's
two signers of the Declaration OF
Independence - Francis Lightfoot
Lee and Richard Henry Lee-will be
saluted at special July 4 observ-
ances at their birthplace, Stratford
Hall.
July A little farther away than
some of the others-the celebration
of the birthday anniversary Of
Stephen c. Foster, composer OF
many simple but beautiful Ameri-
can songs, at State park named
for one of his works, My Old Ken
lucky Home State Park, Bards-
town, KY.
July 4-5-Culpeper, in Virginia's
famed horse country will be the
mecca of horse lovers when she
holds her annual horse show.
July 4-5-Watercraft of all de-
scriptions will compete in the Rock
Hall Yacht Club Regatta in Chesa-
peake Bay.
July 4-6-Power boats and SAIL
boats will show off their stuff in
the three-day Hampton Regatta in
Hampton Roads, climaxed by the
thrilling Virginia Gold Cup races.
July 11-12-Another aquatic event
is the Cambridge Md Regatta
for almost all classes.
For a gregarious creature, man
listens with strange attentiveness
to the catch phrase, getting away
from it ALL" when spring stirs the
restlessnesS in his soul and. before
the summer is out, places his feet
on travel paths. But it is more with
relief than resignation that he turns
to vacation objectives frightened by
lively beaches or mountains tapped
by good roads, with food tasty
enough and Accommodations attrac-
tive enough to draw also his fellow
man. So the appealing idea of
turning ones back momentarily on
crisis -burdened world is put aside,
for year at least and perhaps
forever.
There are, of course, compromises.
A fishing expedition might suffice,
but luckily streams have a habit of
acquiring popularity almost over
night. If the appeal of the woods
is strong, the man who toyed with
the idea of sleeping under the stars
and like care-free Indian is likely
to lean toward a settlement of
cabins, with plumbing that ap-
proaches convenience, picnic tables,
ready-made fireplaces and their
stacks of flreWood.
Naturally there would be, in the
broad expanse of America, isolated
tracts of virgin forests visited un-
frequently by man. The determined
outdoors man ferrets them out and
finds, while the wishful thinker is
dreaming about it, such an un-
spoiled wilderness as the Flambeau
River State Forest in Wisconsin.
The forest became recreation news
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