Festival celebrates 26th year
By Staff
special to The Star
Nov. 28, 2002
The Chimneyville Crafts Festival will celebrate its 26th year when it begins a three-day run at the Mississippi Trade Mart next month.
The Dec. 6-8 event is a traditional Mississippi holiday festival that attracts crafts lovers from all over the Southeast.
Future family heirlooms, as well as gifts that both please and surprise, can be found among the 160 craftsmen represented.
The Craftsmen's Guild of Mississippi produces the festival.
The guild was founded in 1973 as a nonprofit organization of craftsmen and others interested in preserving folk, traditional and contemporary crafts of Mississippi.
Since its beginning, the guild has grown from 30 members to more than 400 professional artisans from all over the Southeast.
The Chimneyville Crafts Festival begins Dec. 6 with a preview party from 7 p.m.-10 p.m.; cost is $30 a person.
The festival then opens to the public Dec. 7 from 10 a.m.-6 p.m. and Dec. 8 from noon-5 p.m. General Admission is $5 per person. Children under 12 free.
For more information, call (601) 981-0019.
