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2006 Giles Arts and Crafts Festival draws largest crowd ever

By Beverly England
Giles Foundation Board Member


The Giles Arts and Crafts Festival leadership wishes to thank everyone for a great Saturday event with over 500 people in attendance this year. We could not have asked for any better weather!! Special thanks go to Margaret Dunn for demonstrating how to make a white oak basket and Dalton Coomer for demonstrating the bottoming of chairs.



The event has grown from five booths to over 30 booths this year! Our plans are make this one of the best Arts and Crafts events in our area. Next, year our goal is to have forty booths.

The following people were winners: Roger Burton won a country ham, Clara Metzmeier won a country ham gift box, and Frank Metzmeier won the chair.

Board members are: Clara Metzmeier, Campbellsville; Gayla Baker, Knifley; Sharon Greer, Knifley; Jan Sparkman, London; Dr. Lynwood Montell, Oakland, KY; Beverly England, Columbia; Mike Crain, Lexington; Steve Flinchum, Elkhorn; and special members Susan Lewis and Betty Loveless.

The next event is OCTOBER 14, 2006 at the Giles house. Dr. Lynwood Montell, a well known Kentucky folklore author of many books focusing on the Appalachian Culture will be telling, GHOSTS STORIES. The event will start at 5:30 p.m. central time with a wiener roast and marshmallows for dessert.

The stories will be told at 6:30 p.m. central time. Bring a lawn chair and a flashlight to keep the ghosts away!!! For information contact 270-384-5906 or go to www.gilessociety.org

The Giles board has already started working on the 2007 arts and crafts festival. If anyone is interested in becoming a member of the Giles Society or to get information about upcoming events contact Beverly England at 270-384-5906. Visit our web page at www.gilessociety.org


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Giles Festival 2006: looking out Henry's Becky House window



2006-10-11 - Knifley, Adair CO, KY - Photo by Linda Waggener. LOOKING OUT HENRY GILES' WINDOW from his Becky House one could see the back of the restored log cabin and the booths with arts and crafts and food. The largest crowd ever attended this year's event. The little house behind the cabin which Janice Holt Giles referred to as Henry's 'Becky House', was where he carved and painted and wrote. Click 'read more' for the story.
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Jeanne Mitchell received guests in the Becky House



2006-10-23 - Spout Springs, Knifley, KY - Photo by Linda Waggener.
GILES FOUNDATION BOARD MEMBER JEANNE MITCHELL, left, received visitors in the Becky House at the annual arts and crafts festival. Her guest in the rocking chair is Omia Sallee Bottoms, age 90, from Casey County. Jeanne Wheat Mitchell was raised in the Little Cake community of Adair County. She is a Campbellsville resident now but stays closely involved with the foundation.

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Henry Giles' kinfolks come back to festival



2006-10-23 - Spout Springs, Knifley, KY - Photo by Linda Waggener. OMIA SALLEE BOTTOMS has a special interest in the Janice Holt and Henry Giles festival because she's "kin to Henry Giles through her mother's people". Mrs. Bottoms said she was raised close by in the Neatsville area of Adair County and then moved over the line into Casey County when she married. After her husband died 35 years ago, she moved to Liberty. She enjoyed the beautiful day at the festival with members of her family.
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Earl and Sharon Jennings have roots in Knifley area



2006-10-23 - Spout Springs, Knifley, KY - Photo by Linda Waggener.
Earl Jennings, and his wife Sharon, pictured here at the recent Giles Festival, have been in central IL now for 46 years but they keep a connection to their roots. Babe Hovious who ran a store at Knifley until it burned down in the 30s, was Earl's Great Grandfather, and he is a nephew of John and Dorothy Beard. Earl said that John, a carpenter, made all the kids toys, including a little school desk for him. He said, "last spring at our Bailey and Hovious reunion at Knifley, I brought it back and gave it to the family". Sharon has family connections of her own next door in Casey County.

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