The Gowensville Fall Festival will feature the Artisans Market Saturday, Nov. 12, where local holiday items will be for sale.
Hand-crafted selections include holiday decorations, quilted and knitted accessories, wooden bowls and benches and custom-designed jewelry made from horse nails, hemp and fused glass.
Books, DVDs and ornaments unique to the Dark Corner of Greenville County are also available.
Jim Stehlik, author of “Distilling the Mysteries of Hogback Mountain,” will sign copies of his book from 9 – 10 a. m. All proceeds benefit the Nature Conservancy’s Blue Ridge Projects.
The festival takes place from 8 a. m. – 2 p. m. in the Gowensville Community Center on Highway 11 near the intersection with Highway 14.
Breakfast biscuits and a hot dog lunch, a bake sale, an antique tractor show, attic treasures and drawings for a quilt and gas grill are also part of the festivities. An expanded parking area is new this year.
Participating in the Artisans Market are these craftsmen:
• Amy Moore, individual lye-based soap bars and gift set, sugar scrubs, lip balms and soy candles.
• Cynthia Webb, custom-designed necklaces and earrings with stones and beads.
• Gail Septon, paper twisted figures such as Raggedy Ann and Andy, pilgrims and Christmas carolers.
• Joy Easterling, hand-knotted, waxed, hemp jewelry enhanced with beads and pendants.
• Lafoy and Jerry Henson, hand-hewn, wooden bowls.
• Lori Jones, crocheted purses and dish clothes.
• Ruth Gagliardi, felted purses and hats, flower pins, scarves and capelets.
• Teresa Vanover, Christmas ornaments, jewelry and sea shell crafts.
• Thomas Malik, horsenail and magnetic jewelry.
• Will Kraft, Dark Corner country benches of all sizes made principally from local white oak.
• The Landrum Quilters’, quilts, plus a variety sewn, woven and quilted gifts, clothing and accessories.
• North Woods Farm Knitters, offer knitted, crocheted and needle felted articles.
Several unique items related to local history are also available: “The Dark Corner,” a documentary DVD with lead storyteller Dean Campbell, who is also the associate producer; Campbell’s book, “Eyes To the Hills: A Photographic Odyssey of the Dark Corner;” custom-designed wooden ornaments of Campbell’s covered bridge and the Gowensville School; and Gowensville license plates.
For more information, visit www.gowensville.org.
– article submitted
by Ellen Henderson