What a beautiful show we had this past weekend with the fourth annual American Heritage Craftsman & Artisan Show. If you missed it this year, they will be back next year, so make plans NOW to attend. One of our good volunteers tells me she saves her change and a few bits of "folding money" all year long so that when the show comes to town she is armed with cash and ready to buy. She's a Nantucket basket collector among other things and she got some beauties this year.
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Greg Shooner at his potters wheel
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I am always so amazed when I watch Greg Shooner of Shooner Pottery working with his red ware. Here he is demonstrating the potter wheel. But Greg does so much more than throw pots! His decorations of the pots are amazing. While he was at the show this weekend he "decorated" a jar he'd thrown with scribed drawings of a whaling ship with a whale spouting. His customer for the pot wanted some specific designs and he happily obliged making it a one of a kind work of art. Greg is also poet. Some of his jars are inscribed with his poetry as well as his drawings. Wonderful stuff. No wonder his work is on display at the White House and Camp David!
So its on to the quarterly Flea Market this weekend. We are open Friday and Saturday from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm. As always, the museum will have some fleas of its own to sell, collected from members over the last quarter. Also present are a dozen other vendors ranging from antique dealers, to artists, to ordinary folks wanting to get rid of their stuff! It's a free event at the Lebanon Conference and Banquet Center so come on down and check it out. This Friday and Saturday, July 27 and 28.
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