In 2016 we went to the Parke County Maple Syrup Festival with friends the last Sunday of February. Like the Park County Covered Bridge Festival, the Maple Fair is an annual event that takes place over two weekends, in its case the last weekend of February and the first weekend of March when the tree sap is running. The artists always set up in the main building at the fairgrounds where the pancake breakfast is served. I always meet some interesting artists there. That year they were raffling one of Aunt Firma's paintings as a fund raiser. :) Ben talked with an artist in one of the booths - I wish I had taken her card - her Mom was a contemporary and colleague of Aunt Firma's. Anyway the very first year of the Bridge Festival the artists association asked to display in the courthouse. (When I was growing up in the sixties, that is where the artists displayed their paintings, but they eventually had their own building).
Anyway this lady told Ben the organizers didn't want to let the artists use the courthouse because the space was too big and there wouldn't be enough paintings to fill it. Well, as the story goes, Aunt Firma got busy painting and she earned $8,000 that year - or else the group did! That would have been in 1956.
Oh, and I took a photo on my iphone of the painting being raffled.
Anyway this lady told Ben the organizers didn't want to let the artists use the courthouse because the space was too big and there wouldn't be enough paintings to fill it. Well, as the story goes, Aunt Firma got busy painting and she earned $8,000 that year - or else the group did! That would have been in 1956.
Oh, and I took a photo on my iphone of the painting being raffled.
Happy New Year, All!
Junebug
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