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Showing posts with label Mississippi. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mississippi. Show all posts
Thursday, May 15, 2008
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
Tupelo, Mississippi
Gum Tree Arts Festival
Friday: Drove over to Tupelo, about an eight hour trip from the house. No way to avoid a trip through Memphis, TN. I hate driving through Memphis. We only saw two wrecks and one load of industrial scrap metal accidentally dump in the middle of the I-240 Loop on this trip through.
Got down to the Lee County Courthouse for setup around four o'clock. Setup for this show is difficult. The area surrounding the courthouse is raised, fenced and slopes toward the street. The only access to our booth location was via seven concrete steps. Using any type of platform dolly or two-wheeled hand truck was impossible. Everything had to be carried up the steps one piece at a time. Bummer!
Jo and I headed back to the motel around 8:30 PM. We got the canopies and fixtures set up and all the pottery and spoons into our booths but left the merchandise in boxes for the night.
The Salvation Army provided breakfast for us starving artists.
Friday: Drove over to Tupelo, about an eight hour trip from the house. No way to avoid a trip through Memphis, TN. I hate driving through Memphis. We only saw two wrecks and one load of industrial scrap metal accidentally dump in the middle of the I-240 Loop on this trip through.
Got down to the Lee County Courthouse for setup around four o'clock. Setup for this show is difficult. The area surrounding the courthouse is raised, fenced and slopes toward the street. The only access to our booth location was via seven concrete steps. Using any type of platform dolly or two-wheeled hand truck was impossible. Everything had to be carried up the steps one piece at a time. Bummer!
Jo and I headed back to the motel around 8:30 PM. We got the canopies and fixtures set up and all the pottery and spoons into our booths but left the merchandise in boxes for the night.
The Salvation Army provided breakfast for us starving artists.
Saturday: Back down to the show by 7 AM to finish setting everything up and getting ready for the show to open.
Thunderstorms had be forecast to move through the area mid-afternoon, but the line of severe weather slowed down. That was a good news/bad news situation. It was great that good weather for the show held all day. However, the fellow in the booth next door showed us the mid-PM storm track on his Blackberry. North central Arkansas and southern Missouri were getting pounded.
Entertainment on the back stage included young ladies dancing.
Normally we just close up our booths and leave all the pots on the shelves overnight, but decided to repack all the merchandise because of the bad weather in the forecast. We were late to the Awards Presentation and supper held after the show. We missed all the self-congratulatory BS and arrived just in time to chow down. My heart was broken.
The line of severe weather finally moved into the Tupelo area around 10 PM when we were "safely" back at the motel. Tornado warning sirens blared a little later. The office called, saying we could come to the lobby for protection, but Jo and I decided we were better off in our ground-level room instead of the glass-enclosed lobby.
The storms passed though without any damage in our immediate area.
There was a fake rock wall to climb. I didn't.
Sunday: Back down to the show at 7 AM so we could set the pots back out. No damage to our booth. Some folks that didn't bother battening down the hatches Saturday evening did lose some work.
Sunday sales were slower that Saturday. (They almost always are.) Still, it pretty good show for Jo and I. Lots of last minute Mother's Day gifts sold.
The show closed at five o'clock. It was around 8:30 by the time we finished packing everything up and carrying it back down those seven steps.
A shot of the crowd on Sunday afternoon.
Monday: Made the trip back home. Only saw one wreck and dodged a couple of firetrucks in Memphis. Everything was okay at the house. The worst of Saturday's storms had hit to our north in Missouri.
The main food court late Sunday afternoon.
Monday, April 28, 2008
Oxford, Mississippi
Double Decker Art Festival in Oxford, Mississippi
Over the weekend, Jo and I participated in a Saturday only art fair on the square in Oxford, MS. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to get many photos, except for a couple of quick crowd shots. It was still dark when we arrived in downtown Oxford to begin setting up and it was dark again by the time we got everything packed up and loaded. In between, we were too busy to allow any time for roaming the festival and/or taking photos -- and that's very good.
Wednesday, April 02, 2008
Oxford, Mississippi
Double Decker Art Fair in Oxford, Mississippi
Jo and I made a quick trip over to Oxford, MS, for a Saturday only art fair. We drove over on Friday and returned Sunday. Saturday we put in a full day at the fair -- so full that I only got a chance to snap a few quick crowd photos. It was still dark when we arrived at the show to set up and dark again by the time we got everything packed and loaded. The show was worth the trip.
Jo and I made a quick trip over to Oxford, MS, for a Saturday only art fair. We drove over on Friday and returned Sunday. Saturday we put in a full day at the fair -- so full that I only got a chance to snap a few quick crowd photos. It was still dark when we arrived at the show to set up and dark again by the time we got everything packed and loaded. The show was worth the trip.
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