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August 28, 2015
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Art show to share park with food truck festival
Festival packs crafts, contests and music into three days
By Garth Snow
By Lucretia Cardenas
At least 37 artists will display works in assorted media at Art at the Riverside, Saturday, Sept. 26 at Riverside Gardens in Leo-Cedarville. Festival founder and director Marsha Wulpi said the festival will be even bigger in this, its third year. “The first year was just an incredible success. The second year as well. All indications are this year will be also,” she said. “We haven’t used the gazebos in years past, but this year I think we’ve grown enough that we will use the gazebos. “Riverside Gardens is on the banks of the St. Joe River. That’s a very beautiful setting.” Fort Wayne Food Truck has signed on with least 11 vendors. That separate event is known as the Fort Wayne Food Truck Fall Festival.
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The roughly 1,000 residents of a “friendly little town” north of Fort Wayne know how to put on a party – it’s been doing so since 1973. The 44th annual Grabill Country Fair will celebrate the area’s Amish heritage with three days of crafts, contests, music and food. This year’s festivities begin Thursday, Sept. 10, and end Saturday, Sept. 12. The festival draws about 100,000 visitors to Grabill and boasts to be “one of the finest craft fairs” with 130 craft booths, according to the fair’s website. The crafts showcased and sold include ornate woodworking, pristine glass blowing, intricate needlepoint and detailed ceramic villages. The exhibition hall, inside Grabill Missionary
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The baby crawl will take place at 6 p.m. Sept. 11 in the activities area of the Grabill Country Fair.
Church, provides a chance for local bakers, canners, gardeners, quilters, woodworkers, photographers and others to show off the fruits of their labor. Between 300-400 items are expected to be on
display. Items to be judged must be brought to the church’s hall between 9 a.m. and 6 p.m. Sept. 9, according to the website. The building is air-conditioned and will be open
during the fair come rain or shine, according to organizers. But the fair is not limited to crafts and produce. Some of its most See FAIR, Page A9
ART AT THE RIVERSIDE
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Saturday, Sept. 26, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Riverside Gardens, 14701 Schwartz Road, Leo-Cedarville Free admission. Features works of at least 37 artists. At least 11 food trucks on site. Visit artattheriverside. com. Wulpi, who is also Chamber of Commerce president, will provide the judges and awards for the food truck competition. Wulpi founded Arts at the Riverside in her capacity as chamber president. Art show sponsorship since had passed to the Leo-Cedarville Foundation. “We started it because we have so many artists concentrated into this area, some really good, See PARK, Page A10
Festival antiques director keeps history of treasures By Garth Snow gsnow@kpcmedia.com
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Marilou Borne said an iron pot that dangles from a mantle at her rural Allen County home was brought to DeKalb County in the 1840s. Borne safeguards four generations of family treasures. She also directs the antiques area of the Johnny Appleseed Festival.
there — that highest one — that probably dates to the 1700s or early 1800s,” she said. “I’ve had it dated by someone who knows, and they don’t feel that it was made later than that. The earlier pots are not as heavy. They’re not as thick.” Beyond the inventory that she inherited, Borne said, she received her
father’s love of antiques and his eagerness to treat people fairly. Ralph McCullough was a parttime auctioneer in Butler, and worked farm and antique auctions north into Michigan and east into Ohio. “He became very well liked by the antique dealers because he was fair See FESTIVAL, Page A6
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In her Eel River Township home, Marilou Borne preserves items that would be pricey in antique stores but which are priceless to her. The photos, furniture, iron pots and oil lamps from four generations fill the rooms and walls. Each has its place of honor, and each has its story. Marilou lists the owners of each item. Those include an iron pot and a coal oil-burning lamp that her great-great-grandparents brought to DeKalb County in the 1840s. Borne is knowledgeable about that era. That’s part of her responsibility as the director of the antiques area at Fort Wayne’s Johnny Appleseed Festival, which will mark its 41st year Sept. 19 and 20. She has supervised that area for 10 years. “That little pot hanging
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