Country Craft Festival. At Historic Sappington House Park.

Thomas Sappington House park is an escape from urban concrete to a refreshing green retreat. Sappington House, located at 1015 S. Sappington Road 63126, is sponsoring an outdoor Summertime Country Craft Festival including talented vendors as well as folkways artisans on Saturday and Sunday, July 22, and 23, 2017, daily from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

 

 

 

Creative Vendors: The festival features arts and crafts, garden and home décor, jewelry and things that resist categorizing – originals handmade by creative vendors.
1 Robert E. Lee, Jr. Birdhouses
2 One Eye Blind Woodworks
3 Bloomin’ Glass
4 Weld Made Art Works & Cats in the Attic – Weld On the web – Cats – On the web
5 Leaf Recreations – On the web
6 LH Enterprises & AOSM Creations – OASM on the web 
7 Pat Calhoun Crafts
8 Crafty Cork Creations
9 Bruce Toulmin Images
10 Metal Mania
11 JudeeDoo – On the web
12 Honey Locust Hills
13 Puppet Pets – On the web
14 Essie’s Sassy Soap – On the web
15 Works of Nature – On the web
16 Designs by Judy
17 Amy’s Bead Design & Two Friends – Amy on the web
18 JWagbags –
19 Gracelynn’s Clay Flowers – On the web

See photos of the vendors showing their wares.

See photos of some of the wide array of wares available at the craft festival.

See photos of kids enjoying the festival in so many ways.

 

See photos folkways demonstrations and other contributors to the festival.

See photos of some of the authors presenting their work at the festival.

Information, Services, Experiences: In the Library of Americana and Decorative Arts, an air conditioned retreat from the heat:
20 Needle workers
21 St. Louis County Library – Genealogist will be on hand to assist visitors with family tree basics
22 Silhouette artists – to create heirloom memories for kids of any age
23 Weavers’ Guild of St. Louis – kumi himo, spinning, knitting
24 Missouri State Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution – On the web
25 “Young’un Outpost” – activities program for children – Dress up for your Passport photo and then do craft activities, may include tombstone rubbings from Father Dickson Cemetery. Animals to Pet (see below)
26 Father Dickson Cemetery – an African-American cemetery founded in 1903.
44 Grant’s Trail – part of Great Rivers Greenway near the intersection of I-44 and I-270. Come to the fair by bike
27 Sappington House raffle
28 Old~timey music

SATURDAY
10 am – Slim Pickin’s ~ Lindell Blackford, Alyssa Catlin & Roy Farwell (banjo, fiddle & guitar)
12:30 pm – Teresa Moore, mountain dulcimer
1:30 pm – Melissa Seal, guitar

SUNDAY
11 am – James Zipfel, violin
12:30 pm – Teresa Moore, mountain dulcimer
1:30 pm – Steve Bise, harmonica, guitar

29 Authors and their books

Rebekah Haas – “Scarlet City” – On the web
Sharon Person – “St. Louis Rising: The French Regime of Louis St. Ange de Belleriv,” and “Standing Up for Indians”

Greg Wolk – “Friend and Foe Alike; A Tour Guide to Missouri’s Civil War”

Jim Merkel – “The Colorful Characters of St Louis”

Diane Rademacher – “Famous Firsts of St Louis” and “Still Shining Discovering! Lost Treasures from the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair”

Craig Nprtpn – “Endangered Animals to Color” – On the web

Fran Hamilton – Associate Director of The Grannie Annie Family Story Celebration  – with book “Echoes from World War II: Young Writers Sharing Family Stories” – On the web

35 S & S Farm Zoo – There will be animals for kids to pet – canceled due to the heat
36 Crestwood Pet Adoption

Historic Sappington House:
30 Complimentary tours of the Sappington House museum first-floor
31 Flower & Herb Garden tours (inquire in Museum)
32 Loft Gift Shop above the Barn Restaurant
33 Eats at Barn restaurant
34 Chillin’ Café – bottled  water, watermelon, sno-cones

Folkways Artisans: Old-time demonstrators will be on hand showing skills such as basket weaving, pewter spoon pouring, twining rag rugs and more.
37 Baskets by Laura – On the web
38 Herbs ‘n’ Handspun
39 Ron Stellhorn – flax
40 Tallow Hill Trading Post
41 J & R Pashia Apiaries
42 Almost Amish
43 Main Street Pottery – On the web

Come to experience summer in South County style. Make it an outing. Bring your friends, family, kids and grandkids. Make it a time of cherished memory. No virtual reality here. You have to feel it yourself, in person, up close and personal.

 

 

 

In the Good, Old Summer Time

Do you know this old song? Lyrics

See on YouTube

In the good old summertime, in the good old summertime
Strolling through the shady lane with your baby mine
You hold her hand and she holds yours and that’s a very good sign
That she’s your tootsie wootsie in the good old summertime.

(In the good old summertime, in the good old summertime
Strolling through the shady lane with your baby mine
You hold her hand and she holds yours and that’s a very good sign
That she’s your tootsie wootsie in the good old summertime.)

In the good old summertime, in the good old summertime
Strolling through the shady lane with your baby mine
You hold her hand and she holds yours and that’s a very good sign
That she’s your tootsie wootsie in the good old summertime…

Wikipedia says

“In the Good Old Summer Time” is an American Tin Pan Alley song first published in 1902 with music by George Evans and lyrics by Ren Shields.

Summertime by George Gershwin – lyrics
Sung by Ella Fitzgerald in 1968 – See on YouTube

Summertime,
And the livin’ is easy
Fish are jumpin’
And the cotton is high

Oh, Your daddy’s rich
And your mamma’s good lookin’
So hush little baby
Don’t you cry

One of these mornings
You’re going to rise up singing
Then you’ll spread your wings
And you’ll take to the sky

But until that morning
There’s a’nothing can harm you
With your daddy and mammy standing by

Summertime,
And the livin’ is easy
Fish are jumpin’
And the cotton is high

Your daddy’s rich
And your mamma’s good lookin’
So hush little baby
Don’t you cry