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PAGE 8 THE YANCEY JOURNAL Crafts Fair In 19th Year: 1 70 Craftsmen To Exhibit This Year The Mt. Mitchell Crafts Fair, in its 19th year, will open Friday morning, August 1, at 10:00 o’clock in the middle of Burnsville. On hand for the opening and welcom ing remarks will be the Honorable James A. Anglin, Mayor of Burnsville; O.W. Deyton, Chairman, Yancey County Board of Commission ers, and Benjamin Floyd 111, President of the Yancey County Chamber of Com merce. Then the crafts de monstrations and exhibits will open to begin a two-day display of some of the finest crafts that can be fashioned by local and visiting crafts men. '«'«p 5 Variety Os Crafts ‘ Edgar Stohler, Grady Douglas, and Mrs. Douglas are j shown with their woodcrafts and other crafts at a recent crafts J fair in Morristown, Tennessee. They will be displaying and selling wagon wheel hub lamps, hand-woven veneer baskets, {handbags, and other crafts at the Fair this year. The crafters are from Johnson City, Tennessee. JLgr *jf ' a sy Come See Us For COMPLETE gjlEft%if I Styles & Co. I Burnsville JULY 31, 1975 Long before the Fair officially opens, the grounds will be bustling with activity and voices of craftsmen greeting each other as they fill their booths with handmade crafts. The local-craftsmen will be coming from places with such colorful names as Bowditch, Bee Log, Celo, Relief, Big Creek, Old Green Mountain Road, Huntdale, Pigeon Roost, Cane Branch, Bolen’s Creek, Brush Creek, George’s Fork, Indian Trail, Bandana, Micaville, Arbuckle and Hardscrabble. In addition, craftsmen will arrive from Spruce Pine, Asheville, Charlotte, States ville, Mars Hill, Brtner, Franklin, Mocksville, Vilas, Lexington, Weaverville, Ba kersville, Valle Crucis, Bre vard, Mt. Gilead, Swannanoa, Black Mountain Gerton, Bar . nardsville, Marion, Boone and Linville Falls. Some other states repre sented at the Fair will be Tennessee, Virginia, South Carolina and Florida. Among the craftsmen will Scheduled Events 1975 Crafts Fair FRIDAY, AUGUST 1 Mornihg: 10:00 Opening-Honorable James A. Anglin, Mayor of Burnsville; O.W. Deyton, Chairman, Yancey County Board of Commissioners; and Be qj am in Floyd Hi, President, Yancey County Chamber of Commerce 10:10 Crafts Displays and Exhibits Open 10:30 Craft Demonstration 11:00 Concessions Open; Entertainment, Singing 11:30 Craft Demonstration 12:00 Entertainment, Dancing Afternoon: ® 12:30 Craft Demonstration 1:00 Entertainment, Singing 1:30 Craft Demonstration 2:00 Entertainment, Dancing 2:30 Craft Demonstration 3:00 Bicycle Skill Competition 3:30 Craft Demonstration 4:00 Entertainment, Singing and Dancing 4:30 Craft Demonstration ' 5:00 Closing of Crafts Displays and Exhibits 7:00 Yancey Jamboree, East Yancey High School 8:30 Parkway Playhouse, “Harvey” - SATURDAY, AUGUST 2 Morning: 9:00 Crafts Displays and Exhibits Open 9:30 Craft Demonstration 10:00 Entertainment, Dancing 10:30 Craft Demonstration 11:00 Chicken Barbecue Serving Line Opens, Plates $2.50; Entertainment, Singing 11:30 Craft Demonstration 12:00 Entertainment, Dancing Afternoon: 12:30 Craft Demonstration 1:00 Entertainment, Singing 1:30 Bicycle Marathon Race 2:00 Craft Demonstration 2:30 Entertainment, Dancing, Instrumental 3:00 Craft Demonstration ~'— 3:30 Entertainment, Singing 4:00 Craft Demonstration 4:30 Entertainment, Dancing 5:00 Craft Demonstration 5:30 Fair Closes 8:30 Parkway Playhouse, “Harvey” — be Bertha Bennett, who lives just around the mountain from Burnsville and has been a part of the Fair since the years of its beginning. Like so many of the other craftsmen, Befths spends a great deal of time during winter months using her skilled fingers to make quilts fit for a queen’s treasure. Even though Ber tha’s years have Slipped by until she is past seventy, she has recently returned from a trip to Baltimore and is eagerly waiting for the Fair to begin. In addition to quilts, there will be other needle crafts of almost every description, including bonnets, pillows, stuffed animals, crocheting, hats, needlepoint, rag dolls, tote bags, knitting, ties, afghans, and aprons. Also, there will be paintings, wood crafts, ceramics, glassblow ing, decoupage, pine cone crafts, plaques, pottery, pho tography, leather crafts, ba tik, weaving, vegetable dye ing, tin sculpture, fabric flowers, nature crafts, lapi dary crafts, toys, coin and other jewelry, clocks, stone collage, books, and apple butter making. The craftsmen will de monstrate, display, and sell their crafts during the two day event founded by the Parkway Playhouse in 1956, and now sponsored by the Yancey County Chamber of Commerce. Added to the crafts and craftsmen will be music, singing, and dancing, provi ded on the hour by partici pants in the Yancey Jam boree, held in conjunction with the Fair. On Friday, there will be a Bicycle Skills Contest, and on Saturday a Bicycle Marathon covering several miles will be sche duled. Concessions will be sold during both days. Friday is a big day for the Fair,, but Saturday is even bigger. Preparations for the giant chicken barbecue will begin around 4:00 o’clock a.m. when the charcoal fire is made to get the grills hot for the first of around Jl6oo chicken halves to j begin J| -; *Hk| ; V, .’: .... -.: -- Mre. Edna Bowdltch of Route 5, Burnsville and Mrs. Mary Margaret Deyton, Home Extension Agent, display craft work done by Mrs. Bowdltch, who will be coming to the Mt. Mitchell Crafts Fair and who has creative and native talent, especially for working with nature m«terl«l B She makes pine cone crafts, birds, plaques, and flowers, and has been coming to the Mt. Mitchell Crafts Fair for four years. Her crafts have been sold In Texas and as far away as Alaska. I I l l I R^jce Don’t Leave It to Chance Be sure your farm is truly protected by a good pu ••cy. Call us nowl N.C. Farm Bureau Ins. . 682-2077 cooking around 6:00 o’clock. Then the aroma of barbecuing chicken will move on the breeze from the middle of town to draw local people in town and county and visitors for a delicious and tasty plate of barbecued chicken, slaw, baked beans, and rolls. On Friday, the Fair will dost at 5:00 o’clock to open at 9:00 Saturday morning, with serving of the chicken bar becue to begin at 11:00, with the final closing scheduled for' 5:30 Saturday afternoon. Along with the Fair, there will be two other special events taking place in Burns ville. The Yancey Jamboree, also sponsored by the Yancey County Chamber of Com merce and a program of folk music, singing, and dancing highlighting Yancey young people enrolled in the public schools, will be staged at East Yancey High School on Thursday and Friday nights beginning at 7:00 p.m. On Wednesday through Saturday nights at 8:30 p.m., the Parkway Playhouse will be presenting Mary Chase’s beloved comedy, “Harvey,” the story about Elwood P. Dowd and his friend Harvey, a six foot tall invisible rabbit. W.C. (Mutt) Burton, guest artist will be recreating the role of Elwood. The produc tion is truly a show for the entire family. It is that special time of year again, a time when people will come from the coves, hollows, mountain sides, land valleys; and from distant places to see and buy crafts, to eat chicken and to be entertained, and to visit with each other as a traditional mountain fair is held once again. It is a time to remember. Homemakers Exhibit I Exhibiting Craftsmen J [Cont’d from page 7] Gary Gilland, BurnsvUle-Batlk Ellen Shanldn, Franklin, N.C.-Potteiy Uura Ann Ball and Barbara Mengis, Asheville-Appliques, Needlecrafts, Painting David Merlwefher, Llnvllle Falls, N.C.-Photography Sharon McClure and Betty Bledsoe, BurnsvUle-Homecrafts James Luther and Carrie Fagan, Southmont-Needlecrafts, Clocks, Memory Boxes, Flower Arrangements, Woodcrafts Kartoon Leather, Alexandria, Va.-Leather Crafts norma Cheren, Burnsville-Embroidery, Crochet Aliene and John Alessl, Burnsville-Stained Glass, Macrame Marclle Williams, Jewell Chambers, Marian Embler; AsheviUe-Needlework, Homemade Toys Cecil Herring, Titusville, Florida-Metalwork, Sculpture; Jewelry In Steel, Bronze, , . „ Copper, Gold and Silver Lula Street, Relief-Homecrafts Eloulse Renfro, Relief-Homecrafts Polly Buchanan, Loretta Buchanan, John Martin; Bakersvllle & Burnsville-Ceramic* lizHe Payne, Mae Edwards, Harold Garrison, Lloyd Fish; Madison Co.-Homecrafts Julia McDonnough, Leigh Lutze, Peggy Propster, Newland-Pbmts/Macrame Hangers Sid and Bettle Solomon, Athens, Georgia-Portrait Sketching Anita and Roger Neal, Cumberland Gap, Tenn.-Candles, Quilts, Leather Crafts, .. _ Copper Enameled Beads Toby Cobb, Bumsvllle-Pottery Virginia Smith, Evelyn Ham 11, Weavervflle-Crochet, Sewing, Flowers Steve Henry, Asheville-Leather Crafts zszz •*- p »“- H "* to **’ N “ ku ~; **- Leonard Solos, Vilas, N.C.-Candles, Macrame Shaw and Glenn Wells, Fletcher, N.C.-Turquolse and Sterling Silver Jewelry, W OflflpTflhs Howard Roark Gilliam, Burlington-Saddles, Other i—hrr Crafts Annie Lee Ray, Burnsville-Handmade Croft. Edgar Stohler, Grady Douglas; Johnson Cfty, Tenn.-Woodcroft Bald Mountain Community School, Burnsville-Homecraft* J. Billingsley, Daytona Beach, Florlda-Jewehy I Brooms And Baskets J. Luther Thomas of Micaville is pictured above as be makes scrub tftttiftns. The scrub brooms are quite durable sod do a good job cleaning, according to Luther’s wife, Bea, who will be at the Fair with her husband. They will have die scrub brooms, bark berry basketijf minerals, and' jewelry. Both Luther and Bea have been long-time participants at die Fair.
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