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Thirty-eighth annual Spring Fair
Issue date: 4/30/09
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The 38th annual Spring Fair began with fireworks on Thursday night and continued throughout the weekend. Other attractions during the fair included a concert by the Roots on Saturday evening, food, arts and crafts vendors, a Beer Garden and carnival style games and attractions that lasted throughout the weekend.
According to Jane Rhyner, advisor for Spring Fair, this year 65 arts and crafts vendors and 24 food vendors participated in the fair.
In addition, several student organization and nonprofit groups from the community had booths throughout the weekend.
The fair included local vendors as well as vendors from as far as Florida.
Alicia Fisher, a henna artist from Virginia, was happy with the positive response she received at Hopkins.
"We're selling to a very intelligent crowd," Fisher said. "We do an art form that is a thousand years old. It's not just a tattoo, and people here get that."
While this was Fisher's first year as a vendor at Spring Fair, several other vendors have been involved with the fair for more than a decade.
Fredy Roncalla, a jewelry-maker from New York, has been selling his "type-writer" jewelry at Spring Fair for the past 15 years.
According to Roncalla, there seem to be fewer vendors at the fair since the first fair he attended.
"The first time I came, the whole upper and lower quads were filled with vendors," Roncalla said.
Roncalla also mentioned that there are not as many arts and crafts vendors as there used to be.
"There are more buy-and-sell vendors, and less hand-made goods," Roncalla said. "You need to keep a good balance. Too many buy-and-sell vendors can destroy a fair."
Hopkins alumnus Mark Degasparre, graduated from the University in 1989 and has only missed two Spring Fairs since then. "They've done a good job," Degasparre said. "But there seem to be less people here every year I come."
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Silver Spring Movers
posted 5/22/09 @ 10:23 AM EST
It's great to have a local fair come to campus occasionally. It can benefit both the students and the vendors. I do agree that it's much nicer to have hand-made goods rather than a lot of buy-and-sell vendors. (Continued…)
Stan.Bally
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posted 7/23/09 @ 10:41 AM EST
Last weekend Hopkins welcomed the local community to Homewood campus with three days of Spring Fair festivities and entertainment - it's very interesting for me. (Continued…)
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