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The 101st Arden Fair, Saturday, August 30, 2008

in Arden, Delaware,
10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.

Every year, we host the Arden Fair on the Saturday of Labor Day Weekend. This year it's August 30, rain date August 31. The Fair features food, crafts, amusements, antiques, books, plants, and a variety of other Gild booths and concerts. Included in the craft booths, the Fair features the creations of many friends and neighbors, as well as many new local craft people

RAIN DATE:
SUNDAY, AUGUST 31, 2008, NOON-6:00 p.m.

Photo: The Shakespeare Gild costumes come out of the closet for the Arden Fair. Photographs of the 100th Arden Fair were taken by Joe del Tufo (including the photo above), Gordon Hesse, and Danny Schweers. Click the links to see the photos.

Come enjoy our 101st Arden Fair!

• Free Admission
• Free Shuttle-Bus Service Park free at the Hanby Outdoor Center on Chestnut Road between Marsh and Darley Roads.
• Shakespeare Gild children’s games and rides, including pony rides (11:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m.). Inexpensive tickets can be purchased for all games and rides. Prizes: maybe you’ll take home a goldfish!
• Food Court with hamburgers, veggie-burgers, hot dogs, meatball sandwiches, sodas, iced tea, hand-dipped ice cream, fruit cups, smoothies, Hawaiian shaved ice, french fries, pizza, funnel cakes and more!
• Library Gild Book Sale with thousands of books
• Gardeners' Gild Plant Sale
• Presentations in Gild Hall
• Art Exhibit in the Backstage Gallery
• Baked Goods, Kettle Corn, Balloons, T-shirts and more!
• Free Music in the Beer Garden
  • Beer and Wine by the glass
  • Swim Gild Meatball Sandwiches, Dinner Gild Grilled Corn on the Cob, and Imperial Deli's grilled vegetable sandwiches, bratwurst sandwiches, bockwurst sandwiches, german potato salad, black bean salad, orzo salads
• Presentations in Gild Hall by Folk Gild
• Scores of Craft Booths with hand-made art, jewelry, crafts and more! If you would like to be one of our vendors in 2008,
• Antiques Market: over 50 vendors. To be one of the vendors, call Lynda Kolski at (302) 475-1658.
• Peddlers, Potions and Practitioners: Experience an alternative, self-discovery route for mind, body and spirit in the Buzz Ware Village Center.
• ATM Machine On Site.

 

PARKING:

There is plenty of free parking at the YMCA Hanby Outdoor Center with shuttle buses every few minutes. Click here for directions and maps. Location: Parking is on Chestnut Road, between Marsh and Darley Roads, just north of Arden. You can get good directions by using GoogleMaps and entering 121 Chestnut Rd., Wilmington, DE 19810 as the address. (The actual address is 35 Chestnut Rd., but that address gives a location over a block off when you use any of the on-line search maps.)

Attention craftspeople!

Area craftspeople interested in occupying a booth at the Arden Fair should have already sent slides or photos of what they make with a self-addressed stamped envelope to the Arden Fair Craft Committee, 1501 Beech Lane, Ardencroft, DE 19810. Registration forms were sent out the first week in June, on a first-come, first-served basis, with past exhibitors given preference to previous spaces. The fee per space is $42 (must be enclosed with the registration form) plus 10% commission on sales of the day. We will set aside a cooperative booth for residents of the Ardens and Arden Club members if they would like to share an 8' booth that can accommodate 2-3 artisans; club-member fee of $30 to be shared; each vendor to donate 10% commission on sales of the day. Past exhibitors need not resubmit photos. Past exhibitors were notified in early June with registration forms or rejection letters. Thank you for your interest in the Arden Fair!
--  Dorsey Lebeis

 

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED!
SEE YOU AT THE 101st FAIR.

August 30th is just around the corner! And so is August 29th - SET UP DAY – we REALLY could use the extra hands…and arms…and pick up trucks…and the list goes on!!! August 31st is your last chance to help with this years’ Fair – IT’S TAKE DOWN DAY! We have some new captains this year. The booths are getting gussied up. Come on out. Cheer the new captains. See the new decorations!

Please consider volunteering for any, some or all of the following Fair activities:
- Fair set-up on Friday (we’ll feed you dinner)
- Fair Day activities, including helping with children’s games, hamburgers/hot dogs/meatball sandwiches, soda/beer, baked goods, money counting, balloons, books, plants, T-shirts, the list goes on.
- Fair take-down on Sunday (we’ll provide breakfast)

If you want to stay at home instead, bake some sugar goodies and drop them off to the Bake Table by 9 AM on Fair Day.

I can guarantee you won’t be bored if you volunteer – we’ll be able to fit you in somewhere. Call or e-mail me to signup or ask questions.
Sima Krusheski, Arden Fair Chair, 475-7268

Attention Bakers!
Anyone interested in baking cookies, sweet breads, cakes  [without a lot of icing it melts in the heat], pies [our best seller],  brownies with and without nuts, or any other sweet concoction, are  invited to bring them to the Bake Table at 8 o'clock a.m. the morning  of the 101st Arden Fair day –Aug. 30.
     Thank you in advance -
         -Pamela Pearson (717-238-4047)

Some previously featured artists at the Fair were:
Linda Parks (2006)
Hunter Clarke (2005)
Linda Celestian (2004)
David McClintock, Roberta Perkins and Danny Schweers (2003)

Links

• Arden Fair Links and Photos:
• 2007 Arden Fair (the 100th)
  • Joe del Tufo
  • Gordon Hesse
  • Danny Schweers
• 2006 Arden Fair:
  • 80 photos by Danny Schweers
  • 30 photos by Allan Kleban in the Beer Garden
  • Barbara Macklem's August, 2006, Arden Fair interview.
• Directions and Maps
• 65 photos from the 2004 Arden Fair
• 49 photos from the 2002 Arden Fair

Come to the Fair! You Are Welcome Hither!