West Virginia
Shiloh Days Festival returns to Friendly, W.Va., June 12 weekend with music, food
FRIENDLY, W.Va. — A small community in Tyler County is getting ready to welcome visitors for the fifth annual Shiloh Days Festival in Friendly, West Virginia, with a full weekend of vendors, live music, food and more beginning June 12.
“It was started as a way to bring people into our community,” Festival director Cyndi Jones said. “We’re a community of less than 100 people, so we were trying to find ways to bring people in, and I came up with the idea,” Jones said.
Jones said the festival’s name and theme connect to the “Shiloh” story.
“I was a teacher for 40 and a half years, and I knew kids really liked the dog Shiloh, so, and the kid in the book Shiloh, in the movie Shiloh, he went to school in Friendly, so it’s tied to Friendly,” Jones said.
Organizers said each day of the festival will begin at 10 a.m. and run until 10 p.m., with a fireworks show planned for families to enjoy Saturday evening.