{"id":4054,"date":"2019-06-04T14:51:48","date_gmt":"2019-06-04T18:51:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/?p=4054"},"modified":"2019-06-04T14:51:48","modified_gmt":"2019-06-04T18:51:48","slug":"paul-fogarty-on-the-new-beer-garden-in-berkeley-springs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/?p=4054","title":{"rendered":"Paul Fogarty on the New Beer Garden in Berkeley Springs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A new beer garden is coming to Berkeley Springs, West Virginia.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/56KWWF3Dp-Q\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It will be located at 33 Fairfax Street. A building on the property that housed Portals, Awakenings Health Center and the Himalayan Handicrafts was heavily damaged by an April 2015 fire. The building was eventually torn down, leaving an empty lot. It has remained empty since.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The beer garden is the project of Paul Fogarty, partner of Trey Johanson &#8212; owner of the Fairfax Coffee Shop.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIt was an open field,\u201d Fogarty told <em>This Week in Morgan County<\/em> <em>with Russell Mokhiber.<\/em> \u201cIt felt like an empty space in the center of town. I think people were personally hurt by the fire and felt the absence of the building. I started collecting ideas informally. We just kept getting different feedback. People kept talking about wanting a place where families could go, where people could congregate, that was more of an outdoor space, that had games.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe one idea that held everything together was a beer garden. It will have open seating at picnic tables. You are sitting next to people you may not know. There will be games for kids of all ages &#8212; outdoor chess board, corn hole, darts, bocce, possibly a climbing wall.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWe want to have artists and performers to have a place to present. And we have a simple rule for performers and artists &#8212; if people are moving toward you, you can keep doing whatever it is you are doing. If they are moving away, you have to go with them. It\u2019s that informal way of saying &#8212; make yourself welcoming.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The original name of the beer garden was BSWV. But Fogarty said &#8212; \u201cthat name isn\u2019t catching.\u201d The current working name is The Source.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fogarty said he hopes to have the beer garden open by the end of the summer or early fall.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new beer garden is coming to Berkeley Springs, West Virginia. It will be located at 33 Fairfax Street. A building on the property that housed Portals, Awakenings Health Center and the Himalayan Handicrafts was heavily damaged by an April &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/?p=4054\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4054"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4055,"href":"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4054\/revisions\/4055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}