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The Wake Forest Farmers Market will
begin its fifth year on Saturday, April
8, and again will be located in the
South White Street gazebo parking lot.
Ten or 11 vendors will be on
hand that first weekend, selling a
variety of home-grown, home-made,
organic and fresh vegetables, meats,
eggs, garlic, breads and other good
things like flowers and pottery. The
sponsors expect as many as 22 vendors to
crowd into the parking lot later this
spring and summer.
The market is open from 8
a.m. to noon.
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The sixth annual Wake Forest
HerbFest is planned for the weekend of
April 21-23 in the gazebo parking lot
and is sponsored by The Cotton Company
and the Downtown Revitalization
Corporation.
Herb lovers and gardeners
will be able to choose from more than
10,000 herbs and 5,000 perennial plants.
This year the founders, Bob
and Elizabeth Johnson, will honor the
memory of their son, Graham, by donating
a portion of the proceeds to the Graham
Johnson Memorial Scholarship Fund at
Franklin Academy. Many of Graham’s
classmates at the school will help with
the duck walk and other aspects of the
three-day show.
Local vendors and those from
around the South will sell garden art in
clay, metal and mixed media as well as
herbal-based products: soaps, lotions
and herb-based foods. Joe Dumas from
Alabama will sell his original art.
The show will be open Friday
and Saturday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and
Sunday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. For more
information, you can go to
http://www.thecottoncompany.net.
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During March, the Cotton
Company is featuring the work of several
artists who are Mary Benejam O’Connell’s
advanced students. They are Linda Tharin,
Blake Tharin, Mary Margaret Steele, Mike
O’Conell (Mary Benejam’s husband), Larry
Harrison, Ann Battle, Carolyn Clark,
Elyzabeth Newhouse and Peter Firth. Mary
Benejam O’Connell is an accomplished oil
and watercolor artists who has taught
for 15 years, most recently for three
years in this area. She offers a variety
of classes through the Wake Forest Parks
and Recreation Department.
During April the featured
artist at the Cotton Company will be
Louisburg artist Jerry Fox Law, and an
artist reception and wine-tasting will
be held Friday, April 14, from 6 to 9
p.m. That evening is also Second
Friday/Art After Hours, and several
studios and shops will be open until 9.
Jerry Law is an
award-winning interior designer and has
enjoyed painting as a relaxing pastime
for the last 20 years. She attended the
University of Virginia Commonwealth,
which has named her one of the 100 Most
Notable Alumni in the School of Art.
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One of Wake Forest’s more
enjoyable events, Six Sundays in Spring,
will kick off Sunday, April 23, at 5
p.m. on the lawn at the Wake Forest
College Birthplace on North Main Street
and continue through May 28. Once again
everyone is invited to bring a blanket
or lawn chairs, a picnic, Frisbees and
balloons to enjoy the music and meet
friends.
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Meet in the Street, Wake
Forest’s outdoor crafts festival, is
planned for Saturday, May 6, from 10
a.m. to 4 p.m. along two blocks of White
Street.
Paul Miller’s Flow Circus
leads the roster of performances backed
by several local performing groups. The
deadline to apply as a performing group
is March 31, and you can find the
application online at
www.wakeforestchamber.org. The
deadline for vendor was March 20.
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The Friends of Wake Forest
Public Library’s annual used book sale
will be held that same day in the former
Winn-Dixie in Wake Forest Plaza, with
the proviso the location may change if
the owner finds another grocery store to
lease the property by then. Eugene Adams
is the chairman of the event, and
collection boxes have been placed around
town. |
