{"id":4758,"date":"2013-10-01T20:23:22","date_gmt":"2013-10-01T20:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=4758"},"modified":"2013-10-01T20:23:22","modified_gmt":"2013-10-01T20:23:22","slug":"rocket-boys-festival-beckley-west-virginia-oct-4-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=4758","title":{"rendered":"Rocket Boys Festival – Beckley, West Virginia – Oct.4-6"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Rocket Boys Festival<\/a> (Oct. 4-6) is on again:<\/p>\n

THE ROCKETS BOYS ARE COMING AGAIN!!! <\/strong><\/p>\n

The October Sky Rocket Boys Festival (OSRBF) will again be held in Beckley, West Virginia after last year’s move to Raleigh County from McDowell County. The home of the OSRBF will again be the Beckley Exhibition Coal Mine <\/a>at New River Park in Beckley, West Virginia. After hosting the event for the past 13 years, the Festival Committee in Coalwood, WV decided it was no longer viable to continue the\u00a0festival there and in 2012 the festival was moved to Beckley.<\/p>\n

The 2013 Festival will feature four of the Rocket Boys plus other special guests to be added to the the schedule later in 2013. As in the past,\u00a0festival goers will have a chance to meet the Rocket Boys, enjoy\u00a0music\u00a0by area performers, and shop\u00a0craft and food\u00a0vendors.\u00a0One of the\u00a0featured highlights\u00a0will be a Rocket Launch from New River Park’s LaunchPad Beckley. Additionally, the Beckley Exhibition Coal Mine will be open\u00a0to the\u00a0festival vistors who wish to travel underground to get a first hand look at how coal\u00a0was mined.<\/p>\n

The event is inspired by Homer Hickam<\/a>‘s book\/movie Rocket Boys\/October Sky\/Rocket Boy<\/a>. He will participate in the festivities<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Rocket Boys Festival (Oct. 4-6) is on again: THE ROCKETS BOYS ARE COMING AGAIN!!! The October Sky Rocket Boys Festival (OSRBF) will again be held in Beckley, West Virginia after last year’s move to Raleigh County from McDowell County. The home of the OSRBF will again be the Beckley Exhibition Coal Mine at New … Continue reading Rocket Boys Festival – Beckley, West Virginia – Oct.4-6<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-rocketry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-1eK","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3919,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=3919","url_meta":{"origin":4758,"position":0},"title":"“Rocket Boys: the Musical” – on stage in West Virginia","author":"TopSpacer","date":"August 12, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"I've posted here several times over the years about Rocket Boys the Musical, which is based on Homer Hickam's famous Rocket Boys book (later the movie October Skys) about his building and flying rockets as a youth in a small coal mining town in the post-Sputnik period. 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