Homestead Days Arts and Crafts Show Brightens Aiken
The Aiken Homestead Days show drew about 100 juried artists from the Southeast to Park Avenue for a weekend of handmade goods. Exhibits included baskets quilts pottery stained glass and wooden crafts with local and regional works from Carolinas and Tennessee. Notable booths featured Mountain Maggie's Cornstalks bears wooden carvings Civil War figurines and wildlife landscapes by listed artists.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Anne Browder
Park Avenue Squirrels
Laurens Street
Southeast
Aiken
Aiken Homestead Days
Aiken Sesquicentennial Inc
Eunice Hawkins
Becky Lock
Baskets
Pic
Park Avenue Magnolias
Dogwoods
Carolina Gamecock
Clemson Tiger
Maggie
Margaret
Dorothy Brudecki
Tennessee
Dotty Porter
Williston
Lynn Mattson
South Carolina
Isabel Vandervelde
Ruth Ravasz
Lou Bryant Davis
Hilda Parrish
Doris M. Sorge
Two Trees Hosts Old Fashioned Picnic For Sesquicentennial
The Two Trees yard in Aiken hosted a 150th anniversary picnic with the Sesquibelle chapter leading festivities. Neighbors showcased themed tables earning prizes, including a pitcher signed by Andy Williams, while groups such as the Get Well Chapter of Aiken Community Hospital and Newcomers Chapter displayed food, crafts, and memorabilia for about 400 attendees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Andy William
Sesquibelle
Sissy Brodie
Toby “Boone
Andy Williams
Ann Grooms
June Tice
Vicki Wooldridge
Dee
Polly Baker
Becky Robbins
Hank Salley
Get Well
Aiken Community Hospital
Salley
Wilma Becker
Connie Wiede
Aiken
Aim Belles
Bonnie Blowers
Sesquicentennial Committee
Twin Oaks
Farm Tours Highlight Equine and Beet Operations
Paula B. Daniel reports on Aiken Sesquicentennial Agriculture Day farm tours at Hopeland Farm and Glenayre Farm. tour participants see rye harvesting and bale stacking at Hopeland while Glenayre staff discuss Quarter Horse breeding, feeding, water needs, stallion management, and foal weaning. Allen Bayles assisted with Clemson Extension Service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paula B. Daniel
Hopeland Farm
Glenayre Farm
H.C. Coward
Tommy Coward
Hopeland
Ron Wheeler
Glenayre
Wheeler
Allen Bayles
Clemson Extension Service
Final Preshow Includes Soloist and Speech
The final performance of Hoof beats Through History drew about 1000 attendees. Preshow included solos by Arimae Burrell and a speech on The Price of Freedom by Col. Ronald E. House. After the show the cast presented director Phylis Shelfow with money for a trip to her Oregon home. Shelfow represented John B. Rogers Company, hired for Aiken's 150th Anniversary celebrations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arimae Burrell
Col
Ronald E. House
Phylis Shelfow
Oregon
Ms. Shelfow
John B. Rogers
Aiken
Also Mentioned on This Page
Park Avenue
Ginny Southworth
Homestead
NAB Research
Nature
Discount Furniture CO
Aiken-Augusta Hwy
Aoken
Fred B. Christensen
Christensen
Aiken County
South Carolina Electric and Gas Co
Sce&g
B.K. Webb
Webb
Dr. Webb
Robert E. Bowen
Laurens St
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