By JONATHAN THOMAS
The Bay School’s 26th annual Winter Faire was blessed with mild temperatures and bare ground on Saturday, December 5. The event filled the parking lots, with many additional cars parked along one side of South Street as friends and neighbors came and went during the six-hour event.
Heather McCargo, co-chairman of the Faire, said later that the event was “amazingly successful,” with more than 1,200 people attending. That is compared with about 900 people in each of the previous two years, when it had snowed.
Upstairs in Emlen Hall, approximately 20 artists and craftspeople had set up booths and tables to display and sell their work. Visitors in that area were treated to a variety of music by a succession of musicians playing from the stage.
On the ground level of Emlen Hall were more exhibits, including a parent and alumni parent craft co-op, and several “8th Grade Entrepreneurs” with their tables of wares.
Across the courtyard in the Rousseau Building, there were things to eat, and more live music, in the Bay School Café, while younger children received instruction in crafts such as felting.
Midway between those sites, the Math Building housed a farmers’ market, a first time event for the Faire. Exhibits there included locally raised meats and eggs, natural preserves, and wreaths and centerpieces.
Outside, “Dads’ Dogs ’n donuts” were there again to sell hot dogs and other refreshments to the accompaniment of Jim Fisher playing his tuba and other brass instruments.
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