BERKELEY SPRINGS, W.Va. — For the 50th time since 1974, the Apple Butter Festival is coming back to Berkeley Springs.

Jules Happy Rone is the executive director of the Berkeley Springs/Morgan County Chamber of Commerce and one of the event’s organizers. A recent guest on Panhandle Live, she says she’s been coming to the festival since she was three.

She’s not the only one.

The annual event is a homecoming of sorts for current and former residents as well as perennial visitors who have come to love taking in all that a small town has to offer in autumn.

They are coming from “All around the world, actually,” according to Happy Rone. “There are people who who literally come from other countries because this is their memory, this is their childhood. This is something that they want to expe

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