3rd Annual WICKETS & WINE - Saturday June 21, 2025

This year's 2025 Wickets & Wine event was held on Saturday, June 21, 2025 from 11Am until 3PM under hot sunny skies of Roanoke, VA at the historic Fishburn Mansion .

Hosted by Friends of Mountain View, Inc., Roanoke Valley Preservation Foundation, Inc., and Roanoke City Parks & Recreation, this annual fundraising event created an opportunity for attendees to dress in their croquet white linen shirts, pants, and dresses – with matching hats of course – to sip wine and Champagne on the mansion's front veranda while watching others having a “mahvelous” time playing croquet on the front lawns of Roanoke’s Historic Mountain View mansion 'kicking off' the lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer. 

The ticket price of $50 included a boxed lunch prepared by Schaals Catering, unlimited freshly cooked popcorn, ice-cooled lemonade and water available in the mansion's grand dining room, croquet on the lawn, other board games available in the library, and presentations on the mansion's history followed by self-guided tours of the mansion's first and second floors. Participants could even win prizes in a variety of categories including Best Dressed,. participating in the 2025 Raffle, or completing and submitting their entry in the event's Trivia Contest. 

2025 Wickets & Wine Prize Winners

Trivia Prize Winner:

This year's 'Trivia' consisted of questions regarding the mansion and Fishburn family, and the prize for answering the most correctly won a bottle of wine and tickets to the Grandin Theatre.

2025 Trivia prize winner is: Laura Hart

Best Dressed Prize Winners:

This year's 'Best Dressed' prize winners were judged by Living History Interpreters, Cynthia Livesay and Chelsea Hutter of the New River Valley Historical Costume Society.

Best Dressed Female Costume: Brittany Plum

Best Dressed Male Costume:  Bill Hackworth

Raffle:

This year's 'Raffle' prize consisted of a picnic basket knapsack complete with plates, utensils, napkins, beverage holders, a blanket and a bottle of wine, along with a gift card of a stay at the Colony House Motor Lodge Boutique Hotel, a gift card at Brood Restaurant in Salem VA, and notecards featuring area historic sites from the Roanoke Valley Preservation Foundation..

2025 Raffle Prize Winner:  Greg Hart

A Shout Out and THANK YOU to Our Event Sponsors and Volunteers:

We graciously thank our event sponsors for without their support this event would not be possible!  This year, there were three (3)  levels of sponsorships: Event Sponsor--$1500; Court Sponsor--$750; and Friend Sponsor --$350.  Each sponsor's company logo was included on all digital marketing materials (including Roanoke Parks and Recreation, Friends of Mountain View and Roanoke Valley Preservation Foundation websites, newsletters, emails, and social media posts) and was sized according to sponsorship level. Event level sponsors also  received a designated dressed table and chairs on the front porch overlooking the croquet courts with a complimentary basket of goodies complemented with flowers and a bottle of wine. 

• Colony House Motor Lodge 
• Nelson & Brenda Greene
• Building Specialists
• Hill Studio
• Gentry Locke Attorneys
• Spectrum Design, P.C.
• Alleghany Partners
• Cary Street Partners
• Davidsons
• MKB Realtors
• D. David Parr, Esq.

WE ALSO THANK ROANOKE PARKS & RECREATION and OUR VOLUNTEERS who without their assistance who planned the event, set everything up, tore it all down and cleaned up afterwards, this event would not have been possible!

                                         THANK YOU

For additional information about the event, contact Alison Blanton at alisonsblanton@gmail.com