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Newtown Historic Association sponsors Market Day

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Market Day, the Newtown Historic Association’s annual Colonial craft and art fair will be held from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 2, at the Half Moon Inn, 105 Centre Ave. (Court Street and Centre Avenue), Newtown.
For over four decades the Newtown Historic Association has celebrated Market Day. This custom revives an old harvest season tradition in Newtown, where long ago, local farmers brought their crops to town to sell and enjoy a day of festivities and contests that culminated with a horse race down State Street.
This year, there are over 45 crafters, demonstrators and artists coming with a wide variety of crafts, from spinning, quilting, rug hooking, fine arts, jewelry making, photography and blacksmithing.
The First Crossing Volunteers, a Colonial militia Revolutionary War encampment will camp out in the backyard of the Half Moon (Court Inn) and come inside and “make a Scarecrow” in the Half Moon Inn. There will be a candle dipping and a puppet show in the Boone Garden. There will also be musical entertainment throughout the day.

“A Better Way Farm” will be there with its team of Belgian draft horses and wagon to provide horse-drawn hayrides. The event’s Festival of Foods will feature local Newtown restaurants offering luncheon treats. The “Best Darn Kettle Korn” will return, and there will be Open Hearth Cooking, which only uses Colonial era methods of cooking and recipes.
The raffle this year will be a $400 gift certificate to use toward a dinner or a stay at the historic The Inn at Barley Sheaf Farm, Buckingham. Tickets are $1 each or six for $5.
There is free parking at The Stocking Works, 301 S. State St. Newtown, and also street parking in town and several public parking lots.
For information call 215-968-3914, email marketday@newtownhistoric.org or visit newtownhistoric.org/events.


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