Travel briefs: Mayberry festival, Disney price increase, cruise ship crewman …
Posted: Sunday, March 2, 2014 12:01 am
Mayberry fest
DANVILLE, Ind. – The small television town of Mayberry is moving from the South to central Indiana later this year.
Hendricks County will host a two-day “Mayberry in the Midwest” festival May 17 to 18. Most of the festival will occur in downtown Danville, a city of fewer than 10,000 people.
Scheduled events include a checkers tournament, a Miss Mayberry contest and Aunt Bee’s Pie Eating Contest.
The festival sprung from Danville’s Mayberry Cafe, a local themed restaurant.
The fictional town where Andy Taylor was sheriff is commonly thought to have been inspired by Andy Griffith’s hometown of Mount Airy, N.C., which holds its own Mayberry Days festival.
Medieval windows
NEW YORK – Six medieval stained glass windows from England’s historic Canterbury Cathedral will be displayed at a branch of New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. The windows will go on view Tuesday at The Cloisters.
It will be first time that the glass panels have left the cathedral since they were created in the years 1178 to 1180. They were removed during restoration of cathedral walls.
The exhibit will include an interactive panorama of the Canterbury Cathedral. The Cloisters focuses on the art and architecture of medieval Europe.
Canterbury Cathedral is part of a World Heritage Site as well as a house of worship.
Disney price hike
LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. – The cost of going to the Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World just got more expensive.
Disney World has raised the one-day ticket price to the Magic Kingdom by $4 so that it now costs $99 before taxes for visitors over age 9.
Single-day tickets for the resort’s other parks – Epcot, Disney’s Hollywood Studios and Animal Kingdom – also went up by $4. It now costs $94 to get into those parks for visitors older than 9.
For children younger than 10, the cost is $93 to get into the Magic Kingdom and $88 to enter the other parks.
Disney spokeswoman Kim Prunty says the pricing reflects the high quality of the parks. She also says most guests buy multi-day tickets, which are considerably cheaper per day.
Cruise assault
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – A cruise ship worker is accused of raping a passenger aboard a Holland America Line vessel and then trying to throw her overboard, authorities said Tuesday.
The FBI reports that 28-year-old Ketut Pujayasa was arrested Feb. 23 when the MS Nieuw Amsterdam returned to Port Everglades in Fort Lauderdale. The incident occurred early in the morning two days earlier in international waters off the coast of Roatan, Honduras.
According to a criminal complaint, the victim – a 31-year-old U.S. woman – told investigators she was attacked and raped in her stateroom. The attacker tried to throw her from the balcony, but she escaped and received help from another passenger.
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