Chldren's Crafts and Games in the Boone Garden

Market Day, the Newtown Historic Association’s 38th annual colonial craft and art fair will be held on Saturday, October 11th rain date Sunday October 12th At the Half Moon Inn in Newtown.

For over three decades the Newtown Historic Association has held the highly anticipated Market Day, reviving the old harvest season tradition in Newtown, where long ago, local farmers brought their crops to town to sell and enjoy a day of festivities and contests that culminated with a horse race down State Street.

There are over 50 crafters, demonstrators and artists coming with a wide variety of interesting crafts, from bee keeping, quilting, rug braiding, spinning, fine arts, jewelry making, photography and woodcarving.

The First Crossing Volunteers – a colonial militia revolutionary war encampment will camp out in the backyard of the Half Moon (Court Inn). We will be having candle dipping, children’s colonial games and children’s crafts in the historic Boone Garden.

Penns Woods Puppet Theater will again perform at 11 am and 2 pm – also Corn Husking contest at 1 pm Come and “make a Scarecrow” at 2:30 pm and win a prize.

Captain Billy and the Coyotes will be performing a selection of music, including traditional music of the Colonial Era. The “Out of Tuners” will entertain in the Half Moon Inn.

Horse Drawn Hayrides will be there with their teamof Belgian draft horses and their wagon to give everyone horse drawn hayrides. The ever successful Festival of Foods will feature local Newtown restaurants – among them – Isaac Newton’s, Black Horse Tavern & McCaffrey’s Market offering delicious luncheon treats. The special kettle corn vendor “Best Darn Kettle Korn” will be here again. There will be Open Hearth Cooking by Mercy Ingraham who uses only old methods of cooking and colonial recipes.

The raffle this year will be a $400 gift certificate to use toward a weekend at the historic “Queen Victoria Bed and Breakfast Inn”, Cape May, New Jersey. Tickets are $1.00 each or 6 for $5.00.

So come out and enjoy Market Day with all your friends and neighbors.

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