37th Annual Folk School Fall Festival

Pour a cup of hot tea and get comfortable..............this is a long post and my very favorite activity of all events in this area. Last year was our first year attending the festival so, of course, didn't know what to expect. I was thrilled with all the art, crafts, not little crafty items that you see at some shows, but Appalachian arts and crafts and the history of these early people who settled here deep in the mountains.

We arrived when it opened at 10 and were directed to parking way out on the lower 40. Temperature this morning was 40 on our mountain but hit high 70's quickly.




This was a neat display..... Elfmade Wooden Toys.... so this guy must be the elf. His wooden toys were interchangeable and very clever. No batteries need......just imagination.

Coming to Cliff's favorite part of the festival.

In the white building you can buy pulled pork and other kinds of barbecue sandwiches. We ate there last year. The huge gray barn has 50 booths......some quilting, pottery, weaving, handspun yarn, cornshuck dolls displays, etc. and a variety of music and dance on the stage.
Cliff just bought his piece of "artwork".........a philly steak sandwich made from one of the local cows we used to wave to.

Didn't want to lose any of my Greek wrap.

Hard decision between the Thai wrap or the Greek wrap. This year the Greek won out, next year I'll try the Thai.
Fresh fried potato curls. Either the plate was hot or he was ready to shovel the fries into his mouth. We were in small lines around 11:00 so only waited about 5 minutes for our food. By 1:00 the lines were so long, it must have been a 20 minute wait.



Long pieces to the left are knitting needles, others are cooking skewers. I like the wine bottle holder. Didn't buy it.......figured I couldn't afford it. Like a fine restaurant, if you have to ask what the price is, you can't afford it.

Jerry is working his primitive foot-pump wood lathe......Old Time Woodworking.

Brooms and wooden spoons.

Wood-fired kiln.

Garden art

primitive furniture

woodworking and woodturning demo

amazing art work

handhewn bowls.......starts with this piece of wood

some of his finished work

Father and son measuring for the plumb line.... preparing the log for some raw wood design.

These two had quite a crowd of spectators.

have no idea what he was going to create...........maybe a totem pole?

some of the quilts and banners hanging in the barn

cloggers performing onstage in the barn

The second one from the left is our neighbor and has a dance studio in her home. She's very talented.

youngest clogger is 6 years old............boy, did they have energy!

We went back to the father/son team to see how the log was progressing. At this point, it had notches cut...still looks like a totem pole to me. I never did find out.

gorgeous pottery, raku fired

Many of the tents were under the canopy of trees. By mid afternoon, the sun had warmed the air and these artists were glad to be shaded.

on our way out.....thousands of people now....time for us to exit

shuttle service