compendium
Artisa
a rising tide floats all boats
n fairs, garden tours, and fresh new fabrics to lift your mood this summer
Written and Produced by MOLLY JANE QUINN
FABRIC • Wellfleet, Massachusetts, is perhaps the most bohemian of
the Outer Cape towns. So it comes as no surprise that two summer girls
turned near-year-rounders (’Fleetians, as locals are known, would call them
“wash ashores”) have banded together to create Wellfleet Waters, a line of
casual outdoor fabrics inspired by sun, sand, and sea. The sisters behind
Wellfleet Waters, Beth Dean and Maryann Morely, offer three mix-and-
match graphic patterns (“Wavy Paisley,” “Loco Polko,” and “Flower Power”)
that are printed in three colorways — “Sunset” (reddish orange), “Grass”
(bright green), and “Water” (vivid blue). The cotton-duck canvas prints and
limited-edition totes are manufactured in New England and are available to
the public and at a discount to the trade on their website, wellfleetwaters.
com, or by phone at 617-413-1381.
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Summer is
synonymous
with outdoor
fun. Support
the arts by
buying local
at these artisan-sponsored
craft shows.
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SOCIETY OF VERMONT CRAFTSMEN ANNUAL FAIR
location
Ludlow, Vermont
tickets
Free
contact
802-228-8770,
fletcherfarm.com
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OSTERVILLE VILLAGE DAY CRAFT SHOW
location
Osterville,
Massachusetts
tickets
Free
contact
ostervillevillage.org
BOOK • Photographer Brian Vanden Brink, whose
pictures of beautiful homes have on many occasions
graced the pages of this magazine, is best known for
capturing houses at the height of their novelty, usefulness, and precision. Yet, in Ruin: Photographs of a
Vanishing America ($65, Down East), an antithetical
look at the glossy magazine ideal of the built world,
he has found something much more alluring. Photos
of abandoned houses, mills, bridges, gas stations,
and main streets are evocative, haunting, sad, and
marvelous. Ruin is a provocative look at where we
have been, yet it also asks the question, where are we
going? There is a thoughtful introduction by preservation authority Howard Mansfield, but Vanden Brink
punctuates his visual message with nothing more
than the location and date of the photograph, leaving
readers to create their own scenarios of how the grand,
the common, the comfortable, and the communally
shared became abandoned and forgotten and leaving
us to wonder which of the structures we admire today
will be the ruins of tomorrow. — gail ravgiala
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LEAGUE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE CRAFTSMEN ANNUAL FAIR
location
Newbury,
New Hampshire
tickets
$10
contact
603-224-3375,
nhcrafts.org
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SOCIETY OF CAPE COD CRAFTSMEN ANNUAL FAIR
location
Brewster, Massachusetts
tickets
Free
contact
societyofcapecod
craftsmen.com
