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Follow on Google News |  Celebrating 50 Years at Peddler's Village!Peddler’s Village celebrates its 50th year in 2012, featuring a year-long party with special birthday festivities, new festivals and family events, contests, promotions and signature 50th anniversary merchandise.
By: Eve Gelman More than 25 million guests have visited Peddler’s Village with family and friends in the past five decades. Guests, old and new, can look forward to appreciating treasured memories with vintage photo and memory contests, memorabilia displays, community reunions and celebrations throughout 2012. The month of June is the Birthday Celebration Month, filled with events including a Customer Appreciation event, a Family Reunion and the most spectacular Celebration of Freedom ever! Earl Jamison started Peddler’s Village in June 1962 with 14 shops and the Cock ‘n Bull Restaurant on a 4-acre parcel of land known as “Antique Town” that included only a chicken barn, coops, and one antique shop. The Village now hosts 1.5 million guests annually, covers 42 acres and features 65 specialty shops, 6 restaurants, Giggleberry Fair family entertainment center, the Golden Plough Inn and 12 major festivals and events. A major highlight of the year’s celebration will be the Peddler’s Village Rube Goldberg Challenge in honor of our 50th anniversary and founder Earl Jamison who loved Rube Goldberg machines. Inspired by cartoonist Rube Goldberg, the Peddler’s Village Rube Goldberg Challenge invites anyone to design and build a machine that uses the most complex process to complete a simple task. The Rube Goldberg Challenge task for 2012 is to blow up and pop a non-inflated balloon in celebration of the Peddler’s Village 50th Anniversary. Rube Goldberg’s grandchildren and Philadelphia television personality Don Polec will make special guest appearances as celebrity judges of the competition! Countless visitors over the decades have enjoyed the award-winning gardens of Peddler's Village. In honor of our horticultural heritage, Peddler's Village will launch the multi-year program 50 Trees for 50 Years. Please join us in 2012 as we begin the selection of 50 beautiful trees to enhance our Bucks County landscape. The shops of Peddler's Village will launch a 50 Weeks of Shopping campaign on January 1, highlighting their unique merchandise, services and locally made products with fun events and promotions that recognize the anniversary and thank our community of loyal shoppers. For 50 years, families have chosen to spend their special moments at Peddler’s Village. If you were born in 1962, please join us in 2012 on your 50th birthday to celebrate your special day with a complimentary dinner at the Cock ‘n Bull Restaurant. Celebrating 50 Years! Festivals & Event Highlights January-August, 2012 January The Cock ‘n Bull Birthday Cake Recipe Contest! Peddler’s Village invites you to enter the Cock ‘n Bull Cake Recipe contest! In addition to cash prizes for the top three entries, the winning cake will be served in the Cock ‘n Bull Restaurant from February 14-December 2012. The contest will be held in the Cock ‘n Bull Restaurant on January 21. February Giggleberry Fair Cupcake Decorating Contest! Enter to win cash prizes in either the Amateur Division or Professional Division in the following categories: Traditional; March/April Peddler’s Village “Calling All Photos and Memories” Contests & Kids Writing and Drawing Contests. Share your special memories and photos of Peddler’s Village from the past 50 years to win Peddler’s Village gift certificates. Select photos and memories will be featured in on-site displays and on the Peddler’s Village website. May Peddler’s Village Civil War Reenactment & Demonstrations, May 11-13 The Sixth New York Independent Battery will lead local and regional reenactors in a three-day program of infantry and artillery demonstrations. June is Anniversary Month! Peddler’s Village Family Reunion, June 10 Customer Appreciation Celebration, June 23 Celebration of Freedom, June 30 The Peddler’s Village Annual Thank You to the Community in 2012 will celebrate our nation’s birthday and our 50th anniversary with special programming, dignitary presentations and a spectacular fireworks show! July The Peddler’s Village Rube Goldberg Challenge, July 14 & 15 The Peddler’s Village Rube Goldberg Task is to blow up and pop a non-inflated balloon in celebration of the Peddler’s Village 50th Anniversary. Rube Goldberg’s grandchildren and Philadelphia television personality Don Polec will make special guest appearances as celebrity judges of the competition! Summer of Rock ‘n Roll on the Main Green, July 7, 14, 21, 28. A rockin’ out celebration with our groovy 60’s cover bands! Peddler’s Village 50th Anniversary 5K Race & Spaghetti Dinner, July 25 Join us for the First Annual Peddler’s Village 5K Race & Spaghetti Dinner to benefit The Heart Institute of Doylestown Hospital and the mission to build healthier lives, free of cardiovascular diseases. August Summer Movie Nights on the Main Green, August 4, 11, 18, 25 Enjoy summer evenings with family-friendly movies and old-style concessions. # # # Peddler’s Village is a country village in Bucks County, PA with something for everyone from 65 quality specialty shops and 6 restaurants to the 70-room Golden Plough Inn, Giggleberry Fair family entertainment center, and 12 seasonal festivals and events set on 42 acres of beautifully landscaped gardens. End
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