THURSDAY, JULY 6, 1967
C rafts/Ran Fair To Open July 17
In Asheville
Asheville, N. C. Sixty skill
d craftsmen from the moun
ain areas of nine southern stat
:s will be on hand to demon
strate and sell their unique work
at the Craftsman’s Fair of the
Southern Highlands, which will
open Monday, July 17, and run
through Friday, July 21, in the
Asheville Auditorium. They use
many of the tools and techni
ques of the early mountain set
tlers to produce items of out
standing quality and workman
ship. Working with the native
materials of the southern moun
tains, they fashion dulcimers,
baskets, pottery, woodcarvings,
and many other traditional and
contemporary craft items.
Craftsmen at the Fair are al
ways busy, demonstrating their
methods and materials to inter
ested visitors. Special educa
tional demonstrators offer step
by step explanations of weav
ing, pottery, and other crafts.
Special emphasis is placed on
the values of craft education.
Asheville area Girl Scouts have
undergone a thorough training
program, and will instruct visi
tors to the Fair in the basic
techniques of several crafts. The
Fair stresses the value of pride
in workmanship, the pleasure of
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creating a financial product
from raw materials.
A special exhibit of the work
of the ever five hundred mem
bers of the Southern Highland
Handicraft Guild will present to
the public a representative
sampling of the quality and var
iety of work being done in the
area. Alwavs an outstanding
feature of the Fair, - the ex
hibits offer a display of the fin
est and latest work of the moun
tain craftsmen.
Entertainment at the Fair is
provided by a group of talented
and enthusiastic folk dancers,
who perform daily at 10:30 a.
m., 2:30 p. m., and 7:30 p. m.
Accompanied by skilled musi
cians, they present the dances
which have been performed in
the mountains for two hundred
years.
The variety of work represent
ed at the Fair is overwhelming.
Craftsmen work in jewelry, wea
ving, quilting, dolls made of a
variety of materials, carving,
stitching, musical instruments,
woodworking, rug hooking, chair
making, enameling, printing, pot
tery, knitting, metal scu'pture,
and several other fields. No two
craftsmen’s work is a'ike, so
there are endless variations of
each craft.
Twenty years ago, in 1948, the
first Craftsman’s Fair was
held in Gatlinburg, Tennessee.
Since then, there have been
twenty-six Fairs, attended by
nearly half a million interested
visitors. Since 1960 two Fairs
have been held annually, in
Asheville in July and Gatlinburg
in October. Total 1966 attendan
ce was over 40,000. The Crafts
man’s Fair has provided a
means of income for mountain
people for twenty years.
The Craftsman's Fair is spon
sored by the Southern Highland
Handicraft Guild, a non-profit or
ganization of craftsmen in the
Carolinas, the Virginias, Ten
nessee, Kentucky, Georgia,
Maryland, and Alabama. The
Guild sponsors an educational
program for members and the
general public by *means of lec
tures exhibits, workshops, and
a lending library of books, pic
tures, and slides. *
The Fair is open 10:00 a. m.~
10:00 p. m. Admission is SI.OO
for adults, 50c for children. Pa
trons may come and go all day
on a single admission, and group
rates are available on request
Further information is available
by writing Craftsman’s Fair,
930 Tunnel . Road, Asheville,
North Carolina 28805.
Tourist information is avail
able by writing the Asheville
Chamber of Commerce, Ashe
ville, North Carolina 28802.
THE YANCEY RECORD
Libraries Gradate Phonograph
Records
By: Ashton Chapman
The circulation of phonograph
records is an increasingly im
portant function of the Avery-
Mitchell-Yancey Regional Lib
rary, which is composed of the
public libraries in Bakersville,
Burnsville, Newdale and Spruce
Pine.
Recent additions to the grow
ing collection of records avail
able to borrowers through the
four libraries include BEETH
OVEN’S SYMPHONY No. 7, with
the New York Philharmonic Or
chestra under direction of Leo
nard Bermstein.
Another magnificant record
ing, with the same orchestra
and director, is THE MOLDAU
AND OTHER FAVORITES com
posed by Anton Dvorak. Includ
ed are MY FATHERLAND,
CARNIVAL OVERTURE and
SLAVONIC DANCES No. 1 and
No. 2.
Selections from Rimsky-Ker
rakov’s delightful opera LE
COQ D’OR are on two sides of
a icng-playing record made by
the Philadelphia Orchestra dir
ected by Eugene Ormandy. Al
so included are the RUSSIAN
EASER OVERTURE and the
RUSSIAN AND LUDMILLA
OVERTURE
JOY IS LIKE THE RAIN and
11 other original songs of our
day were recorded by the Medi
cal Mission Sisters Choir of
Philadelphia.
Three delightful musical
spoofs are included in the new
recordings recently acquisition
ed by the Regional
They are THE BAROQUE BEA
TLES BOOK "rediscovered” and
edited bv Joseph MUS
IC FESTIVAL CONCERT re
corded at the Royal Festival
Hall, London, “devised” by Ger
ard Hoffnune; and P D Q BACH,
listed as “chamber music under
the direction of Jorge Mester,”
With these three records the lis
tener can have fun with music.
Boy Stools
Attend Camp
8 Boy Scouts from South Toe
Troop 518, accompanied by Rev.
John Powers, attended Daniel
Boona Scout Camp last week.
While this is a newly organized
Troop, they showed good train
ing by excelling in both archery
and riflery, taking second place
in riflery and third in archery.