TIPP CITY — Main Street downtown will be free of traffic but full of antiques, art and, organizers hope, people during the sixth Antique and Artisan Show Saturday, June 27.

About 70 antique dealers and local artists with everything from pottery to weaving, concrete work to paintings, photography and jewelry are lined up for Saturday’s show.

Antique dealers will offer antiques and collectibles, not flea market items, said Ruth Safreed, event organizer and former owner of Midwest Memories antiques and collectibles mall downtown.

Organizers don’t think the economy will keep people away. Despite the recession, people are buying antiques, said Terri Bessler, who purchased Midwest Memories business from Safreed earlier this year.

Different methods of getting the word out about the 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. show are being used this year including e-mails and more Web listings, Safreed said…

PANCAKE/SAUSAGE BREAKFAST

NOW ALSO SERVING
SAUSAGE GRAVY & BISCUITS

In Conjunction with the
Tipp City Antique & Artisan Festival

TIPP CITY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
Corner of Third and Main Sts.
(In Our Great Hall)
Tipp City, OH 45371
937-667-2318

SATURDAY, June 27th , 2009
8:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.

$7.00 Adults
$3.00 Children 8 and Under
$17.00 Family-2 Adults & Children Under 10

To add to the festivities, the Tippecanoe Farmer’s Market will also be participating throughout the day with fresh flowers, fruits and vegetables, and the nearby Tippecanoe Museum will be open all day, with docents to help you enjoy your visit. For “eats,” look into the Pancake Breakfast from 8-11 sponsored by the Tipp United Methodist Church, the Spaghetti Dinner from 4-6 sponsored by the Miami Democratic Women’s Club and food booths sponsored by local organizations through out the day. The local restaurants will also be open their regular hours with full menus.

For more information, please see www.visittippcity.org or call Ruth Safreed at 657-3365.

We have 65 spaces filled on Main from 1st to 3rd and on Second Street from the corner north to Federal Antiques. More than half are Antique booths. The rest will be filled with a variety of art ( wood art, metal art, watercolors, photography, woven materials, thread art, pottery,home made jewelry and paper items, etc).

The Farmer’s Market will have 3rd street closed from 9-1.

The Classic Car show will take up Main Street from 3rd to the train tracks.

Don’t forget the Pancake breakfast at the Methodist Church 8-11 and the Spaghetti Dinner prepared by Dee Gillis in the Community room from 4-7. The VFW and the Methodist Church ladies will have grilled items and the IOOF will have cotton candy.

The closed street signs will go up after 8 PM on Friday. The participants will start arriving around 6AM Sat morning.

The detoured traffic will go from Main to 1st to Broadway to 6th and back to Main. We have talked to everyone with parking lots and most are opening their lots to the public; we will put out signs.

The Tippecanoe Farmers’ Market had it’s largest turnout ever, as well, and added three new vendors: Nashville Farms, specializing in vegetables and produce, Woodlawn Farms, offering produce, baked goods, and home-made birdhouses, and Downing Fruit Farms, with a large selection of items. The Market was scrambling for spaces to put their vendors as the location of the Antiques and Artisans show necessitated a relocation of the Market to free up vehicular access to the Methodist Church parking lot from Third Street. Greg Enslen, member of the Tippecanoe Farmers’ Market Committee, said that the “Market did very well and will be back in it’s regular location next week.” He also said that, with all of their major vendors now appearing at the Market, it should grow in size and popularity over the next few weeks. “We hope people will come out and see what we have to offer,” he said.