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August 29,2002 -Twinsburg Bulletin - Page 5 |
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Olde Thyme Fayre |
| TWINSBURG - Hear ye, hear ye: The Olde Thyme Fayre returns to the city next month, bringing a handcrafted flair and homemade taste to Twinsburg. The fair, sponsored by the Twinsburg Historical Society, will take over the museum and barn on Darrow Road near Twinsburg Town- ship Square Sept. 14 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sept. 15. The society's members and officers, including Sue Graham, Gizella Roddie and Mary Williams, have assembled a variety of handmade crafts and more for the event. They said residents also will have the opportunity to submit handiwork, baked goods and homegrown produce and flowers for judging. Graham said the fair will include demonstrations of oil painting and wood carving. Experts will also show fair-goers how to make pottery, pickles, apple butter, old-fashioned brooms and a type of needlecraft called "punch work." "We're going to have lots of craft demonstrations;' Graham said. "It's also a good chance to see what we've preserved in this town." Roddie said $1 fund-raising raffle tickets will be on sale at the fair for a hand-knitted scarf, an Amish-built rocking chair and an Amish-sewn quilt. The proceeds will benefit the historical society. Visitors to the fair on Sunday will listen to the sounds of violin students from Walker Music of Twinsburg from 1 to 2 p.m., Roddie said. Williams said many of the crafters at the fair were "found by chance," including the Pins, and Needles Cloth Doll Club, which was invited to participate after doing a display at the Twinsburg Public Library. Also on display at the fair, Williams said, will be the First Con- gregational Church's Knitwitters' items for premature babies, quilts from Cotton Candy, a quilting shop on Ravenna Road, a demon- stration of the historical society's printing press and corn-shelling machine, as well as aroma therapy by Arc Ancient, a Cleveland- based company. "We're trying to find something a little different this year" Williams said. The organizers said many handmade items will be for sale at the fair, including sweet treats from Amish bakers from Middlefield. The Amish baked goods have been popular in past years, they said. Residents who would like to enter homemade and homegrown items for judging, such as produce, flowers, baked and canned goods, needlework, jellies and "anything crafty" can take the items to the society Sept. 13 from 5 to 7 p.m. or the hour before the fair begins Sept. 14. |
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