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The Feng Shui
Garden Gate |
The
backyard of La Paix
leading to the Fair Booths
over the bridge. |
Elaine Ferry shows
a participant how to
make a lavender wand. |
Another lavender
wand maker totally
engrossed. |
Hans Friedmann subbed for
Dale
Hawkins who was
called to chef duty
in Hawaii. Hans did
a superlative job.
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Myra, steward,
demonstrated
essential oil distillation of
lavender. |
Ben McKean, Little Hungary Wine
booth, & Eve Van Sant Drennan,
Great Spirit Herbs booth
both smile for the camera. |
A pretty, smiling lady
in a pretty hat was
among the 175 guests. |
Deaonna Crowe won
the Lavender Cookie contest again!
with her beautiful and
delicious Lavender White Chocolate
Raspberry Cheese Cake
Cookie. |
Elaine Ferry RN, herbalist
& Sandy Otto Abbott,
teacher & sailor, were two
happy Cookie judges. |
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This gentleman
named
Johnson advised us to
put salt around the
yellow jacket nest found
on the ground. It was
a success. |
Dot Montgillion, of Smoke Camp
Crafts and President of the
W.V. Herb Association
personed two booths and gave
a workshop on Medicinal
Herbs. |
Sandy Abbott, Denise Poole, Myra
& Lynnda
Kratovil. Sandy, Myra & Lynnda graduated from Towson High School together
over 50
years ago! All worked very hard and loved it during the
Lavender Fair! Denise and Myra have
worked on seven fairs
together.
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Laura Yokochi, Sec'y of
the W.V. Herb Association
& Professor again
personed the table for
luncheon receipts. |
Laura's sister, Julia
Bebeau took the
afternoon shift at
the luncheon receipt
table.
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Justin Wizard gave a
workshop on Living on Less.
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Tammy Perrine of W.V.
Mountain Clean gave a workshop on
Making Lavender Soap.
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Kay Basham, Moondreamer,
stands inside her interesting
and beautiful booth.
Kay also gave a workshop on
Herbal WineMaking. Her
nasturtium wine was
delicious.
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Another smiling
participant was Donald
Sedlack who came with his wife, Evelyn, Shirley Moore
and Evelyn's sister, Carol.
Don, Evelyn and Shirley were also THS (Towson High School) graduates in
(yikes! 1953)
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Michelle Luddy's harp
music was as beautiful
and gracious as her
smile. With her, Connie
Gay Polovina played both
the dulcimer and the cello.
Connie's bright smile and
effervescent personality
lightened up everyone
who saw and heard her. |
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Mike Plybon gives another
excellent chair massage.
Mike also sold a fuel catalyst.
WV Environmental Council
booth in background. |
Paul Goland of
Hardscrabble
Enterprises poses by his
booth featuring wild
mushrooms. He gave a Wild Mushroom Walk & Talk and a workshop on Making
Shitake Mushroom logs. Shitake log in
left foreground. |
Joe
McLaughlin, who has
worked at La Paix all
this belabored Spring,
came to the Fair with
a smile and a ready
and willing helping hand. |
Some of the interested
spectators who watched Hans Friedmann's demonstration.
What is is really all
about:
A Peace banner and
lavender. |
The weather has been dry, so the
mushroom walk this year only yielded one mushroom and a bunny rabbit,
shown here.
While digging up rocks projecting from
the grass, we found this small hand cut stone trough. For more
information on the stonecutters May see National Historic Registration.
(link below) |
