Smashburgers, sandwiches, & fries
LOCATED NEAR THE OLD SCHOOL
Old School Outside
Half Crown Bakehouse
The Salt Pot Kitchen
Savory Pies, Fish & Chips, Soups and Pastries
LOCATED NEAR THE OLD JAIL
Witmer, Amy & Joe
Best Demonstrating Artisan of 2023
Cinnamon Treasures
Mixed Media
Amy and Joe Witmer are passionate artisans dedicated to preserving and creating Colonial, Traditional, and Historic items by hand. They specialize in crafting solid beeswax heirloom collectible figures and ornaments using traditional German techniques of molding and carving beeswax, a skill dating back to the early 1500s. They support local apiaries and manage their own honeybee hives to ensure they use the highest quality beeswax.
Each piece they create is unique due to the natural variations in beeswax. The Witmer’s meticulously crafted works are cherished in private collections worldwide, and they take great pride in their detailed, handcrafted pieces that merge history with craftsmanship.
Stop by their tent, just outside the Old School, to learn more about their work and art.
Our products are produced completely by hand using 100% pure and locally sourced beeswax. We scent our beeswax using a custom blend of pure essential oil created only for Cinnamon Treasures. We start with a solid block of beeswax, melt it down, add our scent, then we hand pour and hand finish each and every item that we sell – from scratch. We use antique, vintage, rare, very early, and hard to find chocolate molds to pour into and create our pieces. This makes our pieces very rare and unique because you have to acquire very early and hard to find molds. We also pour using early flat molds, chocolate, springerle, and cookie molds to make unique ornaments. We have a wide range of items with a large focus on Christmas and Santas, to rabbits, turkeys, chickens, pigs, horses, bee skeps and bees, hearts, cats, dogs, etc.! It’s hard to name them all!
This unique art of molding and carving beeswax began in Germany centuries ago with the Lebkuchen bakers. The bakers used their Springerle and gingerbread boards to mold the first beeswax ornaments. This became a holiday tradition. These boards were carved from fruitwood into elaborate scenes of animals, birds, guild workers, country life and St. Nicholas. By the mid-1500’s, Christmas markets were thriving in German towns. There are records of bakers attending these fairs making gingerroot flavored breads, as well as merchants who made wax souvenirs which people took home and hung on their Christmas tree.It is a tradition that we carry on today. We have expanded this tradition to include casting and pouring figures from exceedingly rare and early authentic chocolate molds from makers in France and Germany as well as the US.
We have built a large following of collectors of our pieces and would love to showcase them at your artisan show.
Kesler, Jonathan
Earthly Arts
Clay
My intention is the integration of art, nature, and the ‘everyday’ life of the patron. This I attempt to accomplish via the creation of forms that may, if desired, have a broad practical functionality which so-by leads to inclusiveness with the life flow of the patron. In turn the subjective art travels with the action creating a bridge for the suggestive surface imagery to promote its theme which is, specifically, nature. Each aspect has a rebounding circular path that in its totality proffers resonance. The art feeds on itself which ‘feeds’ the patron on multiple levels. Such is my intention.
The Fermented Pig
German Bratwursts
LOCATED NEAR THE OLD JAIL
Yang, Mary Z. & Lee, Jon
Mary’s Designs
Jewelry
Professionally trained in jewelry design, enamel artists and goldsmiths with more than 30 years of experience, we design and handcraft one-of-a-kind enamel cloisonné jewelry pieces. With our unique expertise:
- We have developed new techniques and processes for better cloisonné color results.
- We roll our own 24k cloisonné wires to the thinnest .002” for our detailed work. There are no other enamellists who have done this before.
- We have also developed our own techniques for double-sided cloisonné artwork on both sides of a fine silver sheet. Technically, it’s a big challenge and no one has ever done it before.
We set our cloisonné pieces in 14k or 18k yellow gold (old wax casting and hand fabrication) with precious stones. We own copyrights on our work. In addition, we have received awards each year from top art shows nationwide. We both hold Bachelor degrees in Architecture and Business and Masters in Education and Computer Science.
Rochford, Grace
Designs By Grace
Mixed Media
Rochford has always been interested in history and early American crafts. Through this interest, she became acquainted with the historical American floorcloths. She enjoys demonstrating and educating the public about this craft. During the last 13 years, she has made these canvas products for home as well as for sale. The first piece, a large 8ft. rug is still in her front hallway. Many of designs are inspired by the colonial canvases, although she creates original and contemporary designs. The products begin with natural heavy cotton canvas. This canvas is stretched and coated with primer, artwork done, then a protective coats applied. The final step involves creating a folded under and glued hem. In addition to participating in many shows, Rochford has produced many and varied custom pieces, including historical reproduction pieces. She also worked with interior designers and have taught numerous floorcloth production workshops.