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that walk around and buy those items'. Two of those people that walk around to buy items were, Jan Seifart and Joan Wyse. When asked if they had attended the Arts & Crafts Festival before, Wyse said, "We came many years before", with an armload of goodies from the festival. Every year, nearly 60,000 visitors, stretching three generations, come to support the 'creative arts and further solidify the festivals standing in the top echelon of America's Summer Festivals'. The Amish Acres Arts & Crafts Festival offers a wide variety of items for the collective spirit to choose from. Handmade dolls beds and clothes are sold by 'Kuhns Kreations' and is made by Tiffany Kuhn-Cleaver and her mother. Kuhn was accompanied this year by her best friend, Heather Cooley, who helps her out at least once every year. Kuhn and her mother have been vendors with the festival for several years now and Kuhn said, 'This is the only festival we consistently do every year now". When asked what their favorite part of the festival was, Kuhns' best friend Cooley said, "I think meeting new people from all over and no matter what age the ladies that come by, even if they are 90 years old, you see that little girl light up in her eyes when they look ip this booth'. Kuhns Kreations has a website where custom orders can be made at: www.kuhnskreations.com and emails sent to [email protected]. A huge array of handmade jewelry is available all around the festival. Tess Yeager was among the vendors offering handmade Jewelry designs. Yeager has attended the Amish Acres Arts & crafts Festival for four years now and said, "There is so many friendly

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people and it is very laid back. It doesn't even feel like I'm working". Yeager hand makes all of her own bracelets, earrings and rings and can be followed on Facebook at: www.facebook.com/haegtessas.art and online orders can be placed at: www.tess.gallery. Jose Soto and his wife make their own hand crafted jewelry as well using a different technique out of silverware. Soto makes bracelets, necklaces and rings with the silverware to form exquisite looking pieces of jewelry. Soto and his wife have been amongst the variety of vendors for the past three years. If it's softer, more delicate pieces of art you are seeking, the Amish Acres Arts and Crafts Festival has that too. Reanhard Hergot creates his own unique flower vases and decorative ornaments out of blown glass. Hergot makes all the pieces himself and has a one-of-a-kind design that he said, "I am the only one that does it like that". It is a round, hanging ornament with another piece of blown glass inside of it making a spidery affect on the inside. Hergot travels with his wife from St. Louis, Missouri every year to attend the festival. Vincent Fleming and his wife come to the festival to showcase Flemings specific talent for oil paintings. Fleming creates all of the paintings' himself and travels every year from Alton, Missouri for the past 30 years to attend the festival. Fleming's paintings are of mythical fairies and dragons, surrounded in a glorious and beautifully designed backdrop. When asked what brought Fleming back for thirty years he said, "It's a nice place to come if the weather is good". Entertainment is in abundance at the Amish Acres Arts and Crafts Festival

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with paddle boat rides and live entertainment on four different stages all four days of the festival. Attendees can find kids puppet shows hosted by Stephen Gubi or a magic show with magician Ken Emsberger. Liza and Mark Woolever stroll the grounds while dressed in folk attire, while playing the violin and acoustic guitar to sing for adults and children. Chris Camp is among the live entertainment with his western-themed, whip cracking show. Camp is a three-time world champion and has made appearances on 'The Tonight Show with Jay Leno', NBC's America's Got Talent 'and has even made a name for himself in the '2007 Guinness Book of World Records' and 'Ripley's Believe it or NotL Camp gets the audience involved and it is sure to be a show fun for all ages. Contests and cash prizes are also held throughout the festival that include gift cards, theatre and overnight packages, season tickets to The Red Bam Theaters' showings for 2016 and a grand prize drawing of a children's play-set from Homestyle Furniture. Vendors can also bring home some extra in cash prizes with two one-thou-sand dollar prizes for 'Best of Show' in two and three dimensional categories, as well as booth presentation. The Best of Show collection can be viewed in the new Arts & Crafts Best of Show Museum inside of the Bam Loft Wine Room, of Amish Acres restaurant. They will remain on permanent display at this location. For next year's event, be sure to purchase tickets and passes online" at www.afhish&cres.' com

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Fine silverware jewelry by Jose Soto graces a table at Amish Acres farm during the August 6 to 9 weekend of crafts, music, and arts-inspired activities. (Photo by Heather Bradley)

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An exquisite oil painting on display by Vincent Fleming hangs at one of the vendor tents at the 53rd annual Nappanee Arts and Crafts Festival at the historic Amish Acres farm during the August 6 to 9 weekend of crafts, music, and arts-inspired activities. (Photo by Heather Bradley)

St. Louis based artist Reanhard Hergot creates one-of-a-kind hand-blown glass ornaments, as seen here at the 53rd annual Nappanee Arts and Crafts Festival at the historic Amish Acres farm. The festival took place during the August 6 to 9 weekend. (Photo by Heather Bradley)

Quilt Guild The Nappanee Quilt Guild, a club for those interested in new quilting techniques, meets on the second Thursday of each month at die Nappanee Public Library. Members will meet at the library next on Aug. 13, from 6:30 - 8:30 p.m. Membership for the "Artful Quilters" is open to anyone. Join the fun and fellowship with other quilters while keeping up to date with new activities and techniques in the quilting world. Bring your own projects to share, check out planned programs for the coming year, and sign up for trips. For more information, contact the Nappanee Public Library at 574-773-7919, or go to www.nappaneelibrary. org. Book Chib reads ‘The Interestings’ Read along with the Cover to Cover Book Club at the Nappanee Public Library. The dub will meet on Tuesday, Aug. 18, from

6:30 - 8 p.m. to discuss The Interestings, by Meg Wolitzer. The kind of creativity that is rewarded at age 15 is not always enough to propel someone through life at age 30; not everyone can sustain, in adulthood, what seemed so special in adolescence. The summer that Nixon resigns, six teenagers at a summer camp for the arts become inseparable. The friendships endure and even prosper, but also underscore the differences in their fates, in what their talents become and the shapes their lives take. For more information or to reserve a copy of the book, call 574-773-7919, or go to www.nappaneelibrary.org. The Cover to Cover Book Club meets at the library on the third Tuesday of each month. Nappanee Public Library Tbur Did you know you could use a VHS to DVD converter or check out a portable die

cut machine at the Nappanee Public Library? How about "selfie sticks" or jigsaw puzzles? There are more than books at the Library. New cardholders and those interested in learning more about the Library are invited to a guided tour of the Nappanee Public Library Monday, Aug. 17„ at 7 p.m. In addition to discovering where to find current bestsellers, a favorite cookbook, or the daily news, participants will be introduced to many special services. These include the Library's makerspace, online catalog, eMedia, computers and copiers for use in the library; framed original art, CDs, DVDs and many other materials for loan. The library, located at 157 N. Main St., holds the tour the third Monday of every month and by appointment. For more information, call 574-773-7919, or go to www. nappaneelibrary.org.