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Pastor Duane Jensen of the Hancock United Methodist Church, center, presides over the wedding of Buster and Betty Lucas Friday at Plumb Grove Mansion in Clear Spring amid the festivities for the 2011 National Pike Festival. (By Chris Tilley/Staff Photographer) |
CLEAR SPRING—
Ward said she invited the couple to ride in the wagon train with her and her husband, Wayne. And while it was the couple’s idea to have the wedding at the festival, it was Ward’s idea to make it public, she said.Like most newlyweds, Ward said Betty and Buster would have a special ride from their nuptials and a honeymoon suite.
Only their ride would be a 100-year-old wagon, pulled by two mules, complete with a sign that reads, “just hitched,” to let everyone along the National Pike know they had just gotten married.
And their honeymoon suite would be a small tent in the shade of a tree, complete with flowers and a smidgen of well-deserved privacy.
National Pike Festival activities
Saturday, May 21
• Plumb Grove, Clear Spring — 6 to 9 a.m. breakfast available for purchase; harnessing and hitching, 6-9 a.m. Wagon train departs at 9 a.m. Parade at 9:30 a.m.
• Wilson Store and Bridge, U.S. 40, east of Clear Spring, above Conococheague Creek. — 10:30 a.m. wagon train stops. Crosses Wilson Stone Bridge, 11:15 a.m.
• Huyett’s Crossroads (Wacohu Grange), 100 yards west of U.S. 40 and Md. 63 intersection — Noon to 12:30 p.m., wagon train stops. Breakfast available for purchases 7:30-11 a.m. Chicken barbecue for sale to support scholarship program. Bake sale and flea market.
• Hagerstown City Park — 2 to 2:30 p.m., wagon train stop. Hager House open for tours 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Free pony rides 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. Washington County Museum of Fine Arts open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
• Ravenwood Lutheran Village, Kenly Avenue, Hagerstown — Brief stop at 3:30 p.m.
• Funkstown Community Park — Wagon train overnight encampment beginning at 5:30 p.m.
Sunday, May 22
• Funkstown Community Park —
wagon train departs at 10 a.m.
• Boonsboro — Auction Square Market Place, Alternate U.S. 40, noon, wagon train stops for lunch. Departs, 12:45 p.m.
• Boonsboro’s Shafer Memorial Park — 1:30 p.m., wagon train arrives, final stop. Free pony rides, blacksmith demonstration, food for purchase.
