Monday, December 12, 2011

The Eastern Market Exhibitor Community: Salutes Tom Rall founder and co-founder of The Flea Market at Eastern Market and The DownTown Holiday Market

The Eastern Market Exhibitor Community Salutes: Tom Rall-Founder and Co-Founder of The Flea Market at Eastern Market and The DownTown Holiday Market.


Tom Rall getting his shop on at the DownTown Holiday Market


We are so grateful for his stewardship of The Flea Market at Eastern Market and the phenomenal success of the The DownTown Holiday Market ( http://www.downtownholidaymarket.com ).  His tireless hard work, easy going, calm, steadfast manner allowed the growth of both these enterprises.  While now 'retired' as the executive manager of "The Flea Market at Eastern Market" he still is part of the management team and maintains a booth in the school yard selling vintage/antique prints, maps, photos and contemporary pottery- etc.

His keen eye for talent and his love of a new challenge lead him to co-found the DownTown Holiday Market.  Both "The Flea Market at Eastern Market and The DownTown Holiday Market" have allowed many artists, crafters, antique dealers, to "incubate" there businesses and /or live there creative dreams.  Come celebrate all year round at the 'Historic Flea Market at Eastern Market and every December -The DownTown Holiday Market
The crowed side walks of this years 7 annual DownTown Holiday Market


Tuesday, November 15, 2011

A Petition, No to the "Eastern Market Preservation and Development Amendment Act of 2011"

* written by: Mary Belcher: Eastern Market watercolourists and Washington, D.C. historian


November 12, 2011

WE REJECT COUNCIL MEMBER TOMMY WELLS’ ASSAULT ON EASTERN MARKET VENDORS’ RIGHTS

Ward 6 Council member Tommy Wells has introduced legislation that would strip Eastern Market outdoor weekend vendors of their rights and protections. The proposed bill, titled the “Eastern Market Preservation and Development Amendment Act of 2011,” would create a new nonprofit entity to control all Market operations, replacing a law in effect since 1999.

Under current law, the vendors—including artists, artisans, antique dealers and other flea-market exhibitors—are given priority to rent outdoor spaces at the Market on weekends. They have protections to continue selling their wares under subleases with Market management. They can make and appeal grievances to an elected tenants’ council. And those who have maintained their small businesses at Eastern Market since 1997 have a right of first refusal if asked to give up their spaces.

Council member Wells has proposed the creation of a politically top-heavy, nonprofit “trust” to operate the Market. Its 11-member board would be made up eight political appointees—five of whom would be appointed by the Ward 6 council member--with only three representatives from the Market’s indoor and outdoor vendor community. In addition, he wants to expand the geographic boundaries of Eastern Market activities along 7th Street south to Pennsylvania Avenue; he would require that “other privately owned or controlled land or buildings that are directly adjacent to the area” be “subject to a lease or management agreement” with the nonprofit trust. The legislation does not specify the need for or purpose of such a lease or agreement.

Under the proposed legislation, priority for Eastern Market spaces “throughout the week” would be given to food vendors. The proposal doesn’t make any special distinction, or list priorities, for outdoor weekend vending, most of which is currently conducted by artists and flea market exhibitors. The newly proposed legislation, which purports to simply amend the existing 1999 Eastern Market law (D.C. Law 12-228, Code section 37.101), in fact strips from the law all language regarding outdoor-exhibitor leases, grievance and appeal processes, and the right-of-first-refusal on spaces occupied by long-time vendors.

Eastern Market is the workplace of Washington, D.C.’s most ethnically and culturally diverse group of artists, artisans, and flea-market exhibitors. We are D.C. at its best and most inclusive. Do not allow the City Council to throw the fates of our small businesses into the hands of political appointees. We want competent Market management—not politically connected overseers.



Help us defeat Tommy Wells’ assault on the rights of Eastern Market’s weekend vendors! Sign our petition in support of maintaining our current rights under the law!

Mary Belcher, artist

Joseph Snyder, artist

Sonda Allen,
Turtle’s Webb, artist

Cherie Lester, artist

Tom Rall,
Flea Market Exhibitor


 Jenae Michelle, designer

PETITION TO THE CHAIRMAN AND MEMBERS OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CITY COUNCIL:

We, the undersigned, urge you to reject Ward 6 Council member Tommy Wells’ proposed “Eastern Market Preservation and Development Amendment Act of 2011” because it strips all rights and protections that Eastern Market outdoor weekend vendors have under existing law.













To see the full text of the “Eastern Market Preservation and Development Amendment Act of 2011,” introduced by Council member Wells on October 11, 2011, and the full text of the existing Eastern Market law, go to:

http://www.tommywells.org/2011/10/tommy-introduce-1.php

 

To write DC City Council members about the proposed changes to the Eastern Market law, contact:

Chairman Kwame R. Brown,
kbrown@dccouncil.us

Mary M. Cheh, mcheh@dccouncil.us

Michael A. Brown, mbrown@dccouncil.us

Phil Mendelson, pmendelson@dccouncil.us

David Catania, dcatania@dccouncil.us

Marion Barry, mbarry@dccouncil.us

Yvette Alexander, yalexander@dccouncil.us

Tommy Wells, twells@dccouncil.us

Harry Thomas, Jr., hthomas@dccouncil.us

Muriel Bowser, mbowser@dccouncil.us

Jim Graham, jgraham@dccouncil.us

Jack Evans, jevans@dccouncil.us

Vincent Orange, vorange@dccouncil.us



THANK YOU FOR YOUR HELP!


Tuesday, November 8, 2011

Turtle's Webb News Letter-November 2011

Broken Circle
Turtle's Webb

  Newsletter
Only a.....away.
The DownTown
Holiday Market
November 2011

Ruth E wants to know...
Ruth E
Who you look at ooh yeah the ring is all that



The MAN or the MEN want YOU to ...
Richard M
John Smith man of ... "Houses on the Hill today"... and such good taste in Jewelry
Get ready and get set for the....
2011 DHM
The 7th Annual Downtown Holiday Market Returns
December 2 - 23Noon - 8 p.m. Daily
Downtown Washington, DCCentered at 8th and F Streets, NW
A UNIQUE SEASONAL SHOPPING EXPERIENCE IN THE
 HEART OF DOWNTOWN
The 7th Annual Downtown Holiday Market returns for 22
 delightful days, December 2 through 23, 2011, on the F
Street sidewalk in front of the Smithsonian American Art
 Museum & National Portrait Gallery between 7th
 & 9th Streets, NW. Bringing a unique and festive
 shopping "village" to the heart of Downtown DC, the
Noon to 8pm market features more than 175 regional
 artisans, crafters and boutique businesses of ethnically
 produced goods.
Hundreds of diverse gift items, such as jewelry, pottery
, paintings, and textiles will be offered by 60 exhibitors
each day. Check back as the exhibitors rotate and the
selection of goods will vary daily. You're sure to find something
 special for everyone on your list.
While you're shopping, enjoy lively seasonal entertainment,
 plus great snacks and festive treats. Located across from
 the Verizon Center and convenient to Metro and nearby
  parking, the market is a creative and convenient way to
fulfill all your holiday shopping needs right in the heart of Downtown.

My view from Here
My View From Here
New Post:
Only a Month away
DTHM


La Hell Raiser Says...

Vote "No" to the
"Eastern Market Preservation and Development
Amendment Act of 2011"
______________________________________________________________
Mary Belcher

Mary Belcher
long time Eastern Market and Washington, D.C. water colorist
and historian
 has done a service to all who love the Eastern Market
 Community by taking
 the time to compare and contrast the current purposed
 New Legislation for
 the Market with the current existing law. It is a very
 interesting read. Many
 thanks are due to Ms. Belcher for her detail oriented,
 clear ,and well written
analysis.
_________________________________________________________________
Please send your letters of support for the
 Eastern Market Exhibitor Community to:

The Council of the District of Columbia
Address: John A. Wilson Building,
 Suite 5, 1350 Pennsylvania Ave, NW, Washington, DC 20004
phone: 202 724 8000
fax: 202 347-3070

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To understand the destructive aims of the new amendment
 please compare it to the present law which among many
 other things protects and grandfathers in long term exhibitors
 who made it possible for Eastern Market to grow and thrive.

DownTown Holiday Market 2011
Only a Month away
La Hell Raiser Says


sax
*(photo by: Val Proudki)
Turtle's Webb Raising Hell
at Eastern Market


New post:

Vote "No" to the "Eastern Market 
Preservation
 and Development Amendment
 Act of 2011"

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Tuesday, November 1, 2011

Vote "No" to the "Eastern Market Presevation and Development Amendment Act of 2011"

A year or so ago, I wrote a letter to the Washington D.C Mayor and the D.C. City Council. It was about cultural rules, observations (witnessing); it was also a warning of what was to come.  Chickens have come home to roost, ward 6 D.C. City Council member Tommy Wells has turned on the entire Eastern community with the goal to destroy it and make it a toy in the hands of his minders.  In his new proposed legislation,  the  "Eastern Market Preservation and Development Trust,"  his Board of Directors can do virtually whatever it chooses with Eastern Market, with little if any oversight from the larger community, the merchants, the exhibitors or the D.C government.


Hence, I encourage all those who love the Eastern Market Exhibitor Community to write to the Mayor's office and the D.C. City Council and tell them to reject the " Eastern Market Preservation and Development Amendment Act of 2011"



The City Council of the District of Columbia

 

Address: John A. Wilson Building, Suite 5, 1350 Pennsylvania Ave,
 NW, Washington, DC 20004

E-mail: dccouncil@dccouncil.us







Fax: (202) 347-3070

Tel: (202) 724-8000



Kwame R. Brown
-Suite: 504
Tel: (202) 724-8032
Fax: (202) 724-8085
Chairman
David A. Catania - Councilmember (At-Large)
Suite: 404
Tel: (202) 724-7772
Fax: (202) 724-8087
Phil Mendelson- Councilmember (At-Large)
Suite: 402

Tel: (202) 724-8064
Fax: (202) 724-8099




Michael A. Brown - Councilmember (At-Large)
Suite: 406
Tel: (202) 724-8105
Fax: (202) 724-8071

Vincent Orange - Councilmember (At-Large)
Suite: 410
Tel: (202) 724-8174
Fax: (202) 724-8210



Michael A. Brown - Councilmember (At-Large)
Suite: 406
Tel: (202) 724-8105
Fax: (202) 724-8071






Jim Graham - Councilmember (Ward 1)
Suite: 105
Tel: (202) 724-8181
Fax: (202) 724-8109
Jack Evans - Councilmember (Ward 2)
Suite: 106
Tel: (202) 724-8058
Fax: (202) 727-8023
Muriel Bowser - Councilmember - (Ward 4)
Suite: 110
Tel: (202) 724-8052
Fax: (202) 741-0908




Mary M. Cheh - Councilmember (Ward 3)
Suite: 108
Tel: (202) 724-8062
Fax: (202) 724-8118
Harry Thomas, Jr. - Councilmember (Ward 5)
Suite: 107
Tel: (202) 724-8028
Fax: (202) 724-8076
Yvette M. Alexander - Councilmember (Ward 7)
Suite: 400
Tel: (202) 724-8068
Fax: (202) 741-0911

Marion Barry - Councilmember (Ward 8)
Suite: 102
Tel: (202) 724-8045
Fax: (202) 724-8055




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As proposed this Amendment :

*(To view copies of the current  proposed amendment and the current legislation, please view my current newsletter.)

1. Is poorly written and poorly thought out, allowing for overreaching control by the proposed : "Eastern Market Preservation and Development Trust", to destroy the current Eastern Market Community.  For example (page 3) "...privately owned or controlled land or buildings that are directly adjacent to the area defined in.....(are) subject to a lease or management agreement between the Eastern Market Preservation and Development Trust..." So does that mean, for example, that Tunnicliff's (a local pub adjacent to " Eastern Market Historic Special Use District" and across the street from the weekend exhibitors) would have to ask this "Trust"  for permission to sell alcohol? Or to have a sidewalk cafe? Or to....what else? This amendment is unclear, far reaching and unenforceable (or so local businesses should hope.)

2. Disenfranchises all current inside and outside merchants, tenants, farmers, produce resellers, and exhibitors who, through hard work, perseverance, and grace, have made Eastern Market an international beacon of community...by repealing ALL clauses that give these merchants, exhibitors et.al., the "Right of first refusal" to permanent spaces for existing side walk vendors, farmers, produce merchants and inside tenants.  There is no grandfathering clause which would legally protect those who built the market, nor is there any clause that gives any legal protection to any merchants, or exhibitors et. al.( page 13) "(e) Section 6 (D.C. Code 37-105) is repealed", (page  14) "(g) Sections 8(a), 9 and 10 (D.C. Official Code 37-107(a), 37-108, 37-109) are repealed". Under this amendment exhibitors, farmers,, tenants, and merchants all could be removed on a whim...and I think readers know that some of us almost surely would be.

3....and allow the Washington D.C.  Ward 6 Council member a disproportionate power and control in selecting and appointing members of the proposed "Board of Directors."
 (page 7)
" (iv) Five appointed by the Ward 6 Council member, all of whom shall be residents of Ward 6..."
"(B)... chairperson who shall ...selected by the Ward 6 Council member...."

"(K) The Board shall supervise and provide coordinated management over all operations in the  Eastern Market Historic Special Use District..." (page 9).

 It is also important to note that while Ward 6 council member Wells would have the majority control over hand picking, who runs the Eastern Market Complex, his amendment is very generous in allowing the City, that is to say, all District of Columbia taxpayers, to pick up the bill for maintaining Eastern Market.  For example:

 (page 13)  "(2) The District Government shall maintain primary responsibility for the providing security personnel, trash pickup, snow removal, street cleaning, insurance costs, and gas, water and electric expenses for the Eastern Market Historic Special Use District..."

 And again in section (3) Council member Wells shows his largess in allowing the City to pick up the tab. 

"(3) The District of Columbia will remain responsible for funding any major repairs, alterations, construction or improvements to the Market."






In summation, the "Eastern Market Preservation and Development Amendment Act of 201" limits the current Eastern Market vision--currently of an international, multicultural market place with a world community at its center--to a small micromanaged toy of a local Machiavellian and Napoleonic despot:  Ward 6 council member Tommy Wells.  Poorly conceived and written laws maybe proposed by anyone, but they are only passed by majority vote of Washington, D.C. City Council. Please urge them to Vote "NO" on this one.

Witnessing,
Sonda T. Allen
Turtle's Webb

Wednesday, April 6, 2011

On a Personal Note: What I am Grateful for: International Suite I

What builds a community? Who built this community?  How did they do it? What are their stories?

Last year some time I read a book called L'Elegance du Herisson by Muriel Barberry, a very good read.  Like any fine piece of writing it has layers: like an onion, but with a heart and soul at the center.  The book is about a woman who, on the surface, is a building super, overlooked and underestimated, but whose interior life is rich, intellectual, savory, elegant, beautiful and full of grace.  The main character works hard to keep this fact hidden from view.  It is this character's view that it is  impossible for some to believe that someone so unremarkable, so easy to overlook, so plain on the outside could be worth anything, could have anything to say, to teach or to share with the world.

Note:

Historiography is the study of how history is constructed, "is a meta-analysis of descriptions of the past.  That usually focuses on the narrative, interpretations, worldviews, use of evidence or method(s) of presentations..." 

Turtle's Webb Raising Hell at Eastern Market is a first-person narrative about the exhibitor community at the historic Market 5 Gallery's Arts and Crafts Festival on Saturdays and the historic Flea Market at Eastern Market on Sundays.  Moreover, it is a celebration of life.

Thus, on a personal note, I would like to express my appreciation for all the exhibitors at Eastern Market who have allowed me in some small way to tell their stories.  Doing so was a great challenge and joy. I would also like to thank all my readers.  I am also mindful of the communities that love and support all aspects of what John Harrod, founder of Market 5 Gallery, The Arts and Crafts Festival and The Flea Market at Eastern Eastern Market, called into being. 


John Harrod


What I am Grateful for:

In the late 1990's, I started studying metalsmithing in County Wicklow, Ireland.  There I met and became friends with Inger-Maria Saeverud, from Bomlo, Norway.  Over the years since then we have met in four countries, Ireland, England, France and the United States.  When I started this project, she was one of my first readers. About a year ago she started her own writing project; at first it was about silversmithing and her love of traditional Norwegian metalsmithing and later it evolved... Her husband of more than twenty-five years had leukemia and she changed the title of her easy to "A Journey to Life" she would write every week about his treatments. At the end of every post she would end it with "what I am grateful for..." I love it.  Sigve, her husband, is now in full recovery and they have welcomed their first grandchild, Helmer, into the world.



Inger Marie and Sigve Saeverud

This should read "who I am grateful to" rather than "what I am grateful for."  In this project of writing I have had many who have helped me by giving of their information, ideas, images and critical thoughts.   Of those, there are folk who stand out in my mind for special recognition.  The first is photographer Val Proukii for giving me permission to use his fabulous image as the image of my essays.  Mitch of Crepes at the Market said to me that Val's picture shows so clearly the reality of what the exhibitor community lives every weekend, and I could not agree more.

On the French side... I have for years been a volunteer at the library at Alliance Francaise of Washington, D.C.. and I enlisted their help every time I wanted a recipe or a funny phrase in French.  They have been, as well, some of my most loyal readers.

Madame Coudret(Reception) & Nadie PazGabriel (librian)


Sarah Diigenti-Pickup (Director of Education Allaince Francais)



Greta Warren "girl friday"








To begin to do justice to the history of the exhibitor community at Market 5 Gallery and The Flea Market at Eastern Market, on many occasion, I had to reach beyond the folks presently at the market. As of this year I have been an exhibitor for twenty years.  There were things I wanted to say. I wanted to get it as right as I possible could. It was important that this beauty, this richness of peoples and cultures not go uncelebrated.  There were two essay, that for me were the most important.  The first was "Shelia Crider and The Talented Tenth" and the second was;" Entertaining Angels Unaware: Painter Andrew Shelton". Think of them both as a metaphor on the book I mentioned in the introduction.  By and large, the artistic renaissance at Eastern Market went unremarked by the larger artistic and media establishment in D.C., and Mr. Shelton is generally overlooked and misinterpreted as a matter of course.




Stevens Jay Carter
 For the first, I called on and received  the words and quotes and memories of  former Eastern Market painter, in the vanguard of that artistic renaissance, Stevens Jay Carter.  Mr. Carter was always open to helping celebrate "the place that gave me a start". It was his image of John Harrod I used when writing of Mr. Harrod's passing. Stevens now maintains two studios, one in the historic O Street Studios in northwest DC, and he has recently inaugurated The International Peace and Arts Center in Oakland, California.

And for the second essay I did not so much call on her as evoked her spirit...

On Living my Dreams...

This past December at "The DownTown Holiday Market"  Tom Rall (founder of The Flea Market at Eastern Market) came through (he is also one of the founders of this event and a part of the management team) to say hello to the exhibitors and to see how the show was going for folks, just as he has done for years at the market.  After the passing of my mother and John Harrod - I am  more aware of how precious time is.  So, I let him know how much I had appreciated his founding, maintaining  and growing the flea market as well as this show.  I let him know that these markets had allowed me to live my dreams.
In Febuary of this year I went to Mexico.  I went there for two reason. One, to improve my Spanish. And, two, to see and hang out with my friend, Marta Vindiola.

Marta and I set up beside each other on Saturdays for about eleven years at the Arts and Crafts Festival at Eastern Market. She was born in a very small town in the mountains of Mexico, but spent  most of her adolescence and professional life in the states. When she retired she moved back to Mexico. 

Marta at her stand at the market

When I was seventeen, for my high school graduation my mother sent me on the school trip.  We went to Madrid and Toledo in Spain, Paris, France and London, England.  I remember at seventeen being amazed by our guide's knowledge of the arts and cultures and her ability to change languages from country to country.  I loved the trip, and in the back of my mind and heart began a desire to learn how to speak, read and write Spanish and French.   Years later...it was funny to me, but in the language classes that I started taking in 2001,  folk would complain about not having native speakers or folk who spoke the language with fluency around to speak with.  I did not have that problem.  I could cite the newsletter I wrote celebrating the contributions of Vernon Burnett (Assistant Market Manger at The Flea Market at Eastern Market)  to the exhibitor community. I encourage everyone to reread  this news letter and think.  He said that Eastern Market was a place to learn...languages. For years on Saturdays I would practice my French with Marta and Namory Keita ( from Mali) and, on Sundays, with Shelia Crider (S.E. Washington, DC) and later Messrak Assef (from Ethiopia).  Now on Saturdays or Sundays I can practice my Spanish with the Sinchico family(from Ecuador).
Messrak Assef

Marta now lives in Mexico City. On my visit there, she took me to "El Mercado de Sabado," an artist market.  We walked through the lower garden of painters and went up and through the craft section.  We ate lunch in the garden of a church.  We visited the church that has "La Virgen de Gaudalupe","La Casa Azule" -Frida Kahlo's house, and "El Palacio Nacional" to see one of the major works by Diego Rivera.  We spoke mostly in Spanish, with a little English and French thrown in like spices.




Sinchico family


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And then there are two...

In this project there are two people who stand out above all the rest. I shall call them my right and left hands. In the language of my neighborhood "they had my back".  My right hand.  We heard tell of each other in high school.  We are and were outspoken at an early age. We met in college.  Now at Western Carolina University, she is Director of English Education, professor and writer.  Next spring she will publish her second book of poems. Catherine Carter is above all my best friend. If what I have written is worth reading, it is because of her insightful, thoughtful and careful editing.  I have argued with her over "my voice".  In the last two years, she has balanced her career, marriage and social life with the constant demands of her best friend.  I always insisting that this post was important and...


Catherine Carter





And my left hand well, I will let his words conclude this project....


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Turtle's Webb Raising Hell at Eastern Market is being read by...

This information does not reflect that these essays are read mostly on my on face book. This information is also based on only six months or so of data collected by the web hosting program where my website on the market is hosted. So enjoy, but take it with... 

The top ten countries reading these essay are:

1.United States
2. United Kingdom
3. Taiwan
4. Russia
5. Germany
6. Turkey
7. India
8. Canada
9. Netherlands
10.Japan


The top ten posts read are:

10. The Art of Andrea Haffner

9.  Le Second Souffle de Steven L. Miller

8. Erika Rubel-Mixed Media

7. A Warrior Come to Eastern Market: The Art of Tsolmon Damba

6. A British Invasion: Sola Ope at Eastern Market


5.  Brocanteuses y Le Marche aux Puces

4. Sheila Crider and The Talented Tenth

3. Down Yonder: Knopp's Farm and Greenhouses

2.  A Red Persimmon at Eastern Market: Katrina Ulrich and Fair Trade
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Marta, Marcella and I 'al mercado de sabado'-Mexico City
 So, in February of this year I went to Mexico to hang out with a friend and improve my language skills. In Marta's space are artifacts of her life:  paintings, craft items, furniture and, you know, stuff.  Like paintings by Andrew Shelton and Thomas Bucci, or the tables by Brian Rayner or drums made by John Millen or a handbag by Jenae Michelle-Range of Emotion or jewelry by...


Marta's space

But, see, the next day we went to "El Mercado de Sabado" with her sister in law and her sister in law had this cute little hand bag that Marta had given to her a couple of years back, made by...Marta and I tried to remember who it was and where they were from but the name and place escaped us.  What was funny to me is that I knew who I could ask. He was a thousand miles away, and the person who made the handbag while having been an artist at Eastern Market for years was even further away from Mexico City than he.  The history of the exhibitor community is held in two places in the hearts and minds of the people who lived it and in the the hands of the management team that founded and maintained it.  While I loved what people said about Vernon Burnett when asked, what I love more is what he said about his experiences at the markets.  In rereading what he said about  what he likes about the market: I find that his words explains so clearly why the # 1 post that people are reading all over the world about exhibitor community is...



1. International Suite I: Eastern Market



Vernon Burnett
 p.s.  so when I emailed Vernon with info needed for a post, he wrote me back that the person I was trying to remember was...Peter Melocco, and his wife and children, were at the market for years. He was a silversmith and his wife made small handbags. They are from Hungary. 

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On left....

In this project Catherine Carter has been my right hand.  And on my left... I needed help to try and begin the process of doing historical and narrative justice to what is the exhibitor community at Eastern Market.  I needed information, dates, memories, stories, facts, names (spelling better than mine) details.  I needed to be trusted with a life's work.  I had no money to offer for all that I was given.  I could only do my best.  Thus, I will conclude this project with his words on my writing.

Tom Rall wrote

and reposted on his face book page:   Decoupage: BoxBoy Paul Alan Bierman at Eastern Market

Tom wrote: "This blog just gets better and better, a work of love. The concluding paragraph  was so apt!"


Witnessing,
Sonda T. Allen
Turtle's Webb