HELICOPTER MUSEUM’S FAMILY FEST, CONCOURS D’ELEGANCE ON WEEKEND CALENDAR
The following events are planned for the week ahead throughout the region: • The American Helicopter Museum & Education Center, West Chester, will host its FamilyFest on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., rain or shine. The event will include a car and motorcycle show, food trucks, beer garden, a World War II living history performance, exhibits, games, helicopter rides and static aircraft displays. Scheduled to attend are PAWS for People, Chester County Beekeepers Association, Locust Lane Brewery, PennSTAR medevac, Atlantic City Coast Guard, Paws and a Cause Seeing Eye Puppy Club and more. Tickets cost $15for adults and $10 for ages
2-12. For more information, see americanhelicopter. museum.
• The PA BBQ Fest — Blues, Brews & BBQs will be held Saturday from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. and Sunday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Jim Dietrich Park, Muhlenberg Township. Ten pit masters will be on hand, plus other food vendors and craft vendors. There will be children’s
activities, wine and spirits, a beer tent and music by Project 22, Vince Rollins and Uncle Jake & the 18 Wheel Gang on Saturday, and Vynyl Rush, Pawnshop Bound and Front Porch Strippers on Sunday. Admission is free. Parking is $5. For more information, see pabbqfest. com.
• The Philadelphia Concours d’Elegance returns Saturday to the Simeone Foundation Automotive Museum in southwest Philadel- phia, which in 2019 was vot- ed the “No. 1Car Collection in the World” by The Classic Car Trust, to celebrate the “Snakes” — the iconic Ford Shelby Cobra and Dodge Viper — each brand with its own unique provenance and cachet in the collector car world. Featured at this fifth annual event will be two of Carroll Shelby’s early
Pennypacker Mills in Schwenksville presents a vintage “base ball” game on Saturday afternoon.
“employees”: Peter Brock and former Philadelphia and Chuck Cantwell, who Eagles coach Dick Vermeil. helped establish the Shelby In addition, there will be brand worldwide, on the family-friendly activities, street and the racetrack, a Car Corral open for local and Roy Sjoberg, known as car enthusiasts to exhibit “Father Viper,” who grew up their classic cars, food and in Media. Special events will specialty vendors, as well include a panel discussion as access to the Simeone with Brock, Cantwell, Sjoberg