Arts and Crafts Fair being held in Gentry
Scott Sloan shows a lawn ornament at the arts and crafts fair in Gentry. Sloan's business, My Father's Garden, is a new design business in Gentry, he said. The fair continues in the big barn at the Chicken Coop Flea Market (just west of Arkansas Highway 59, on Main Street) through Sunday.
While arts and crafts fairs are being held across the region, a new fair is being held right here in Gentry. Numerous crafters and vendors are showing and selling their work in the large barn-shaped pavilion next door to the Chicken Coop Flea Market in Gentry.
The local fair, which will continue through Sunday, was started by the Chicken Coop to give local residents more options and a place to go close to home. Store owner Melissa Graef said this is the first of many to come. Plans are already underway for a spring arts and crafts fair.
Graef recently completed the large pavilion, and it is now filled with vendors. Inside her shop, more vendors display and sell their wares – everything from crafts, antiques, coins, vintage lighting, dishware, and the list goes on.
Graef is hoping that the arts and crafts fair will draw people from the immediate area but also from the surrounding region. Many already come to Gentry just to visit her shop and see all the new old things she has for sale.
More information on the arts and crafts fair is available by calling the Chicken Coop Flea Market at 736-2255. The store also has a Web site at www.chickencoopgentry.com.
Charlene Smith, Kay Taylor and Link Taylor gathered around a stove to keep warm during the cool afternoon hours at the arts and crafts fair in Gentry today.