Events and Happenings Around Antiques Week in NH

The Great New England Antiques Festival
The First & Largest Show Of Antiques Week In New Hampshire — And The Only Family Festival!

HOPKINTON, NH, AUGUST 3 & 4, 2002 ~ Flamingo Promotions — the pre-eminent Antiques Show Promotion company in the Northeast — is proud to announce the official opening of Antiques Week In New Hampshire with The New England Antiques Festival!
   Now in its 7th big year, the Festival is set for Saturday & Sunday August 3 & 4 at the New Hampshire State Fairgrounds in Hopkinton NH. This is the first Show of this prestigious week, the largest show of the week, the only family festival of the week, and absolutely the most fun show of the week!
  Over 250 diverse Exhibitors from across the nation will set-up indoors in five different buildings, outdoors, and under tents to offer an incredible array of Fine Antiques, Americana, Vintage Decoratives, Garden Accessories, Country Furnishings, Primitives, Vintage Memorabilia, Old Folk Art, Architecturals, and much, much more! A true Family Festival, visitors will also find an Antique Farm Museum, an Antique Fire Apparatus display, a huge Classic & Vintage Auto Show, Live Music Acts, a Children’s Petting Zoo, Balloon Rides, Hay Rides, Face Painting, Magicians, Old-time Cooking Demonstrations, Antique Fire-arm Displays, Antique Craft Demonstrations, Antique Appraisals, Book Signings, and best of all — Tax-Free New Hampshire Antiqueing!
   Only 20 minutes from Manchester and the largest Antiques Show in New Hampshire, this is the Show CNN called “The Hot Spot for Americana”, and the one all the other Antiques Week Dealers shop at before opening their shows! It’s the best place to start the Great Antique Hunt of 2002!
   Show Location: New Hampshire State Fairgrounds, Hopkinton, NH.
Show Hours: August 3 & 4, 9?4 Daily
Admission: $4/Person, Under 12 Free
Directions: I-93 to I-89 to Exit 7. Follow the signs to the Fairgrounds.
Miscellaneous: Free parking, Easy Handicap Access, Multiple Refreshments, Credit Card Service.
Phone: 1.631.261.4590 ~
Fax: 1.631.262.1912
E-Mail: flamingoshows@aol.com ~ Web: www.flamingoshows.com

   Barn Star Productions, Inc. invites you to celebrate the ninth year of their flagship event, the Mid*Week In Manchester Antiques Show, August 7 & 8, 2002, at the Wayfarer Inn, Bedford
New Hampshire.
   Regarded as one of the most important buying opportunities of the year, collectors and dealers alike are making room reservations and booking airline seats for their annual visit to MID*WEEK and 104 of their favorite exhibitors.
   Americana is the name of the game and exceptional folk art leads the way. You will be astounded by dealers from across the nation who make MID*WEEK their two day showcase, filling the air-conditioned convention center and beautiful white tent pavilion with original painted, decorated and formal period furniture, fractur, weathervanes, quilts, trade signs, samplers, early brass and ironware, game boards, folk rag dolls, redware and stoneware pottery, hooked and braided rugs plus many other categories ready for your home and collection. Comments MID*WEEK promoter, Frank Gaglio, “We are rewriting the rules in New Hampshire by providing collectors with  top dealers selected from the most prestigious antiques shows and bringing them to MID*WEEK. If quality, selection and price are your criteria, look no further.”
    Show amenities include free parking, on site-shipper, outdoor barbecue and free book raffle. Show tickets are $10 and include complimentary re-admission with hand stamp. A special offer will be available at the gate on Wednesday and Thursday: Purchase a 2-Show Ticket for $25.00 and save $5.00 off early Buying (9am-11am) at the BEDFORD PICKERS MARKET ANTIQUES SHOW on Friday morning, featuring 104 New Exhibitors at this same location!
   Merriam-Webster defines Classic as the “standard” and we hope you’ll agree. The Mid*Week In Manchester Antiques Show, where buying is always a pleasure never a pressure.
      The Wayfarer Inn is located at 121 South River Rd, Bedford NH (603) 622-3766. For more information, Antiques Week In New Hampshire Calendar of Events, accommodation listings, directions and to join our mailing list, visit our website at www.barnstar.com and click on the MID*WEEK logo, or call (845) 876-0616. Show hours: Wednesday, August 7, 9am ?7pm, and Thursday, August 8, 11am ?5pm. Admission $10.

   Linda Turner, owner of the Riverside Antiques Show held during "Antiques Week in New Hampshire", has changed the hours of the show this year. Last year’s first day show hours will be extended to 9pm, with an opening at 5pm. Opening a day earlier last year was considered successful in helping to stagger the hours of the busy show week. The Opening Day is Tuesday, August 6th, 5pm to 9pm. Show hours on Wednesday, August 7th are 1-7pm and Thursday, August 8th are noon to 4pm.
  Before the show last year, Linda Turner stated, "The Riverside Show dealers are committed to bring enough interesting top quality merchandise to sustain a three day show, so Riverside will never look "picked over." You can buy well here."
   Customers at the show were not disappointed last year when they found that the sold items from Tuesday evening were replaced with fresh merchandise the next day. Sold signs said, "Watch this space. More wonderful merchandise will take this spot."
  A dealer-supplied display of items relating to "Down by the Riverside" will be exhibited at the show this year. The items will all be for sale, and will include oars, boat models, signs and fishing related items. Also included in the exhibit will be prints, paintings, and textiles related to the "Down by the Riverside" theme.
   New to the show this year are Rutabaga Pie, Chesterfield, MO; Claude and Sharon Baker, Hamilton, OH; Jeff R. Bridgman Antiques, Dillsburg, PA; Cothren House Antiques, Lanark, IL; Ray Cushing Antiques, Rockport, ME; The Fassnachts, Canadaigua, NY; Erik Gronning, Shaftsbury, VT; Thos. Moser Antiques, Naples, FL; Bette and Melvyn Wolf, Inc., Flint, MI; Jill Wojtaszek of Port Jervis, NJ; and Lillie Antiques, Wiscasset, ME.
  The Riverside Antiques Show is held at the State Armory, 1059 Canal Street in Manchester, NH. Free parking is available at the lot next to the armory. An on-site shipper is available during the show and the popular Anna’s Café (of Bedford, NH) will be serving delectable food throughout the show days. Admission for the show is $10 and after filling out a return card, attendees can return to the show any time during the three days at no extra charge.
   For further information about the show, contact promote Linda Turner of Forbes and Turner at 207-767-3967, email her at LindaT@maine.rr.com or visit the company’s website at www.forbesandturner.com

         New England’s Premiere Summer Antique Show will open August 8th and continue the 9th and 10th.   THE 45TH EDITION OF THE ANNUAL NEW HAMPSHIRE DEALERS ASSOCIATION SHOW will be held at the Center of New Hampshire Holiday Inn, 700 Elm street, Manchester, NH.
       The March issue of  Country Living Magazine  called the New Hampshire Dealers Show one of the five antique shows "NOT TO BE MISSED." Entitled "Top of the Line," antiques expert Helaine Fendelman says, "A good show is where the good stuff is ? and collectors go where the good stuff is."
       What makes this show the successful and exciting show that it has become? What makes Scudder Smith, Editor of the Newtown Bee say: "without question there is a certain magic about this show and it is the cornerstone event during antiques week in Hew Hampshire"? Why do people come to this show from all over the United States and Canada? The answer is summed up by the fact that the 65 professional antique dealers saved their very best merchandise all during the year for this show in  order to preserve the shows reputation for "FRESH TO THE MARKET" quality   antiques.  The exhibitors constantly restock their booths, giving the Show a new look daily, and providing a good reason to revisit the Show on Friday and Saturday.
  COUNTRY LIVING, the leading decorating magazine that features the country lifestyle will be celebrating their 10th anniversary as a participant in the Show. The editors of COUNTRY LIVING are proud to be a part of the NEW HAMPSHIRE ANTIQUE SHOW and will be greeting the Show’s visitors and offering their latest books, magazines, and decorating information.
   For the convenience and comfort of our shoppers, THE HOLIDAY INN, provides parking and is FULLY AIR CONDITIONED. There will be an on-site SHIPPER available to take care of any purchases that you are not able to carry home. VISA and MASTERCARD will be available. Remember, too, in New Hampshire there is NO SALES TAX
   A special feature at this year’s show will be a book signing by Melinda Zongor, a long time show exhibitor and author of a new book, "Coverlets and The Spirit of America: The Shein Collection". A book featuring full page photos front and back of 105 Coverlets from the Joseph D. Shein collection in Philadelphia. The Coverlets dating from 1817 to 1869 express history through imagery. The signing will take place in the Lobby of the Holiday Inn on opening day, Thursday, August 8th, from 8:00 am till 9:30 am in the booth of MAD ANTHONY BOOKS.
   Whether you are a serious collector, an antique dealer, or a browser, this is THE ONE ANTIQUE SHOW you shouldn’t miss. Put it on your calendar, today! Plan your vacation around it.
   David Hewett of the Maine Antique Digest says, "Nothing can be as COLORFUL, CHARISMATIC, AND WILDLY SUCCESSFUL, as the NEW HAMPSHIRE SHOW in August. And Scudder Smith sums it all up when he says, "THE NEW HAMPSHIRE SHOW still is THE BEST!"
   THE NEW HAMPSHIRE ANTIQUES SHOW is sponsored by the NEW HAMPSHIRE ANTIQUES DEALERS ASSOCIATION, a non-profit organization that promotes the antique business in Hew Hampshire year round.  They have over 300 members in New Hampshire and throughout the United States.
   THE SHOW HOURS will be: Thursday, August 8, and Friday, August 9: 10:00 am ? 8:00 pm, and Saturday, August 10: 10:00 am ? 4:00 pm. Admission is $10 Thursday, and $8 on Friday and Saturday, which includes re-entry on all days.
     For additional information please visit our website at www.nhada.org or call (603) 585-9199.

   The fifth annual Bedford Picker’s Market ? A  Qualitiy Antiques  Show featuring 104 FRESH, NEW DEALERS to Antiques Week In New Hampshire, will be held at the Wayfarer Inn, Bedford NH, Friday, August 9, 2002. Featuring “real pickers” and top name dealers from 13 states, The Picker’s Market is one event well worth waiting for.
   In a symphony of well-planned movements, the Bedford Pickers Market will emerge from the vacated booths of the Mid*Week in Manchester Antiques Show over night. With few precious hours to set-up their booth displays, these skilled and talented exhibitors work into the night nailing, hanging and arranging their latest finds saved just for this show. An air of excitement fills the Convention Center and Tent Pavilion as midnight nears anticipating the Friday morning opening crowd. What will greet them is what the Pickers Market is known for: Discoveries, Discoveries and more Discoveries!
   From an attic find of just a few days ago to an incredible painted corner cupboard owned for years and just decided to sell, The Pickers Market dealer works hard to make this event special, as you will see. Expect to find rare toys and banks, textiles, paintings, formal and country furniture, early sheet metal and copper weathervanes, period gold leaf frames, oriental rugs, sets of decorated chairs, tables, garden furniture and sculpture, early brass candlesticks, Windsors, trade signs and barber poles, blanket chests, and cupboards. This is the reason why dealers from every show during the week stay til Friday for this show!
Show amenities include an on-site shipper, outdoor barbecue, and free parking for customer convenience. Make the Smart Buy at  Mid*Week by purchasing the special 2-Show Ticket at $25.00 saving $5 off Early Buying at the Pickers Market (9-11am) on Friday morning. Come see why our slogan at the Picker’s Market is “End Your Week With A Great Antique”.
   Show hours are Friday, August 9, Early Buying 9-11am ($20 pp at gate; $15.00 with 2-show ticket), General admission 11am to 4pm $8.00. For more information, an accommodations list, directions and to join our mailing list, please visit our website at www.barnstar.com and click on the BEDFORD PICKERS MARKET logo or call (845) 876-0616.