Lewisburg follow-up

The weather was lousy and the turnout was too. The woman next to me said last year was a gorgeous day and you couldn't see across the street for the crowd. That wasn't the case this year but some people did come out. It wasn't a great sales situation for me but I had good traffic through the booth and lots of positive feedback- even more so than the Sugarloaf events. But people weren't dropping much money. Lewisburg is home to Bucknell- it's a university town so that may explain some of that (educated people without a lot of disposable income.)

The jurying was definitely a notch below Sugarloaf. The woman behind me sold various kinds of kitchenware with sterling silver wire wrapped around the utensils- for example wine glasses with the wire wrapped around the stems. She had done this for spoons and knives- candle holders- all kinds of crap. It was really lame. And there was a photographer who specialized in lighthouses. There were some fine art painters there with some cool stuff but they didn't seem to be getting much traffic. I'll probably do it again next year just because it's local and inexpensive to do. And I met some interesting people and made some worthwhile contacts. But no relief from the starving artist lifestyle just yet.