Burgundy Farm Country Day School is throwing open the gates of its 26-acre Alexandria campus next Saturday for a Fall Fair that doubles as an 80th-birthday party. The free community event runs from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on October 17 and will mix games, crafts, food and live music with a homecoming welcome for generations of former students and their families.
The school will welcome the community to its annual Fall Fair on Saturday from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., according to Alexandria Living Magazine, with the celebration coinciding with the school’s 80th anniversary. Admission is free and open to the broader Alexandria community, though individual activities require tickets, Burgundy’s event page notes.
Tickets run $1 apiece on the day of the fair, but families who plan ahead can grab a bundle of 13 tickets for $10 through Thursday, October 16, per the same event listing. The fair will take place at Burgundy’s 26-acre campus at 3700 Burgundy Road, and organizers say both activity and food tickets will be available for purchase on site.
A Homecoming Eight Decades in the Making
Beyond the games and crafts, the Fall Fair is built around reunion. The event serves as a homecoming for Burgundy alumni and their families, the school’s event page states, giving former students a reason to return to the grounds where they grew up. Burgundy Farm Country Day School was founded in 1946, making this year’s fair a marker of eight decades of operation on the same Alexandria property.
Today the school serves 280 children from junior kindergarten through eighth grade, according to a staff listing on Burgundy’s website. That modest enrollment belies the size of the Fall Fair crowd: the event attracts hundreds of people to campus each year, per the school’s own account, turning the fairgrounds into one of the larger annual gatherings tied to the institution.
Volunteers and Vendors Fill Out the Day
Burgundy has also framed the fair as a showcase for local businesses, telling prospective vendors the event offers a chance to introduce their brand or organization to more than 750 members of the Burgundy community and beyond, according to the school’s event page. That reach, paired with the games, crafts, food and live music promised for the afternoon, is expected to keep the 26-acre campus busy well beyond the school’s usual weekday rhythms.
Families heading to Alexandria next Saturday can expect an outdoor, teen-friendly atmosphere built largely on volunteer effort. Whatever draws visitors through the gates — nostalgia, the ticketed games, or simply a free afternoon outdoors — the fair remains Burgundy’s signature public gathering as it marks eight decades of educating children in the same corner of Alexandria.
