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September 6-7, 13-14, 20-21, 2008 |
Step back in time 200 years and visit pioneer America with master artists and crafters setting up rustic shops along streams and amid lovely wooded dales, with foods and snacks cooked over open fires, and with non-stop entertainment across the 75-acre grounds. Keep up to the hour and follow events with the Town Criers. Visit with the militia and mountain men, or learn crafts with hands-on instruction. Visit with the master crafters and artists while they demonstrate the way they transform nature into something unique for you and yours.
News Release
(September 2007)
Yankee Peddler Festival featured on
That's Life
(Cleveland's Fox 8)
Look for a rerun of That's Life with Robin Swoboda on Cleveland's Fox 8. The show was filmed on location at Yankee Peddler on Saturday, September 8, 2007. Join Robin as she travels around Yankee Peddler. Then make plans to come see us in 2008.
Click here to see a list of who Robin visited at Yankee Peddler.
News Release
(September 2006)
Yankee Peddler Festival featured on Good Company
Good Company on Cleveland's NBC affiliate WKYC Channel 3 featured a segment which showcased the Yankee Peddler Festival in 2006. The segment was part of the "Cheap Date" series that Geoff Short and Dave Tarbert produce for the show. Click on this LINK to view the video (courtesy of our good friends at Good Company).
News Release
(September 2004)
Yankee Peddler Festival: Building on the Past for a New Tomorrow
For thirty-one years each September, the Yankee Peddler Festival has been synonymous with unmatched excellence as a family event that blends art, crafting, great food, and entertainment. Its fame has spread across the United States and beyond, and it has been privileged to have been featured in many quality tour magazines and publications, including the Rand-McNally series of Vacation Guides. It has been so successful because of the superior quality of its artists, crafters, entertainers, and foods. But it has also been so successful because it is so authentic, permitting visitors to truly step back into the colonial and pioneer world to experience the essence of simplicity, beauty, and old-fashioned fun.
Now the organizers of this much-imitated event have announced a major expansion beginning with the 2004 Festival. As always, visitors will be able to visit and enjoy the colonial world of the original Yankee Peddlers who traversed early Ohio from 1776-1825. Beginning this September, though, visitors will also be able to enter and immerse themselves in a second "world" that will coexist with the traditional Yankee Peddlers at Clay's Park Resort in Canal Fulton, Ohio. The world of "today's" Yankee Peddler will be populated by contemporary artists, crafters, and entertainers. In this new world, the Yankee Peddlers who set up their shops will be artists and handcrafters whose art and crafts are modem in their technological foundations -such as photography-or in their style, such as contemporary jewelry and pottery. Just as their colonial counterparts will continue to do, the contemporary artists and crafters will demonstrate how they transform raw materials into inspired finished pieces. Entertainment in this new world of today's Yankee Peddler will reflect the contemporary theme. The organizers promise that this new world of today's Yankee Peddler will be as relaxed, easy-going, pleasant, and informative as its parallel colonial world.
Asked about the upcoming expansion of the Yankee Peddler Festival, Festival spokeswoman Betty Cajka commented: "The Yankee Peddler Festival has been a trendsetter among shows in a number of ways. It has contributed mightily to the arts and crafts community's success and vitality. It has brought art and handcrafting to large numbers of people through its unique vision and re-creation of pioneer America. And it has created a very popular family event that is a true extravaganza, not merely another arts and crafts show. Now we wish to build upon those trends ourselves by bringing a new, contemporary group of arts and crafts into the mix, arts and crafts that have been outside the universe of the original pioneer period. It will all be an even greater extravaganza than before."
Perhaps best of all, visitors will be able to stroll around and enjoy both worlds for the price of visiting just one. The organizers have no plans to charge separate admission for each parallel Yankee Peddler universe on the grounds. They will continue their policy of making this special event as accessible as possible to all. So, for the price of a movie, visitors will be able to enjoy both traditional and contemporary worlds of the Yankee Peddler.
Spanning the "14th colony" (as the original Yankee Peddler Festival has been called) to the modern world economy, the Yankee Peddler Festival will literally bring alive not just one world, but two worlds of pleasure, fun, and unique beauty come September 6 - 7, 13 -14, and 20 -21. Mark it on your calendars! The Yankee Peddler Festival is going to be even greater than ever, an event we can assure you has never before been seen in this region- or anywhere.
For further information, contact the Yankee Peddler Festival office at (800) 535-5634 (voice), (412) 831-2526 (fax), or information@yankeepeddlerfestival.com. Or write to:
Yankee Peddler Festival
PO Box 183
Bethel Park, PA 15102-0183
visitors since 1776