Bangor Waterfront

[starwalker]

Originally Posted by forest beekeeper

Actually I went yesterday as well. I took my Dw and eldest son. We might have passed each other.

I had hoped to get there to check out the crafts area -- thinking ahead to next year, and wondering if it would be a good place for a booth with my hex signs, especially knowing that it would be only a month or so until Common Grounds Fair, where I am also planning to have one...

Of course all will depend on the cost of booth space...

But can you, or anyone else who attended, give me any insight as to what the craft area held, and if folks appeared to be buying, if they were just going for inexpensive souvenir trinkets or if this might be an appropriate venue for true folk art. My pieces range in price from under $20 for the small indoor ones to over $200 for the "mount on the garage or house" size on wood.

I didn't get to the festival, but I DID get the old trailer totally empty and 90% cleaned! going over to weed-eat before the Bangor Power cuts the juice (I hope) today and to mop the last floor in just a few minutes.

[forest beekeeper]

Originally Posted by starwalker

I had hoped to get there to check out the crafts area -- thinking ahead to next year, and wondering if it would be a good place for a booth with my hex signs, especially knowing that it would be only a month or so until Common Grounds Fair, where I am also planning to have one...

Of course all will depend on the cost of booth space...

But can you, or anyone else who attended, give me any insight as to what the craft area held, and if folks appeared to be buying, if they were just going for inexpensive souvenir trinkets or if this might be an appropriate venue for true folk art. My pieces range in price from under $20 for the small indoor ones to over $200 for the "mount on the garage or house" size on wood.

I didn't get to the festival, but I DID get the old trailer totally empty and 90% cleaned! going over to weed-eat before the Bangor Power cuts the juice (I hope) today and to mop the last floor in just a few minutes.

A vendor that I had seen previously with river stones which had been cut with a saw to have a flat base and a hole drilled in them to act as a vase for flowers or pens.

A vendor with braided rugs. The kind braided from rags into ropes and the ropes coiled.

A vendor with light wooden coat hangers.

A vendor with wool, and displays of spinning [though I saw no spinning].

I will try to remember which others I saw.

[RHB]

There were soap, jewlery booths also. With honey and maple syrup booths. Many of the booths looked they were the same ones that I've seen at common ground.
There were people there, I don't know about how they were buying.
I didn't see any "souvenir trinkets"
This did hold to the "folk" part.


Maybe next years Bangor meet could be at the festival? Random thought...

[Maine Writer]

Originally Posted by msina

http://www.city-data.com/forum/2253850-post12.html


here's a link to MaineWriters recipe!

Thank you! I was going to look for this. I'd rep you again but I have to spread it around.

[lawmom]

Needhams have mashed potatoes in them???!!!???

I never would have guessed. I wonder what their function is. I'm not so sure I can ever look at a Needham the same way again. I feel like I've suffered a small loss.