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EUGENE OR.
2008 EMERALD
EMPIRE HEMP FEST |
As
we've been waiting
for our motor home
to get repaired and
outfitting ourselves
for our return to
life on the road ,
I've been going each
Saturday here in
Eugene OR. to the
'Saturday Market '
where I've been
revisiting my youth
and selling my
buttons & cards.
I typically set up
my little folding
table next to a
wonderful group of
people working
toward a future
where they hope Hemp
is more accepted &
marijuana is
rightfully taken off
the list of illegal
drugs ...they also
are the people who
setup and facilitate
the local Hemp Fest.
....so....
A few weeks ago Dan
,who is the main
facilitator and one
hell of a truly nice
person showed me
their poster for the
Hemp Fest and said
it just didn't look
right ...so I
told him I'd redo it
for him and asked if
he would trade us a
booth space at the
event for the poster
art. He said sure
thing... so we did
the poster art & got
to vend at our first
Hemp Fest .
We had a wonderful
time and sold a
bunch of our buttons
& cards ....which was
fun and also very
helpful and
important to us
because we need to
make our living this
way ,and we were not
sure at all if we
could still pull
this sort of thing
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Here are a couple of
pictures of Millie
at our little
vendors table , once
again selling my
button & card
designs ...
click-here
for an old pic
of her doing the
same back in the
late 80's |
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Below are
some pictures of the
vendors booths at the
Hemp Fest ....
There was a little bit
of everything for sale
... hand blown glassware
,beautiful candles ,
lovely hand-crafted
clothes and a bunch of
the typical stuff you
see at every event of
this type.
Events of this type are
different than a juried
Arts & Crafts
show/festival is .... a
juried show 9-out of-10
times will mostly only
allow you to sell things
you crafted yourself
...a non-juried show
like the Hemp Fest
allows its vendors to
sell things made by
others. This is a
helpful & good thing for
the people who love to
go to events like these
,but don't have the time
or inclination to make
everything themselves.
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were busy selling our
stuff ,so I didn't get
to take many pictures of
numerous bands of
surprisingly good
musicians that played
this event ...
even so here's a few ... |
Below
you'll find some
pictures of a nice
purple school bus run
off of veggie oil ,owned
and lived in by an
artistic group of Nomads
out of British Columbia
( Canada )
They live in the bus &
travel about to Fairs &
festivals where they set
up their tent and sell
the very beautiful
clothes they make ,
promote alternative
fuels and also put on a
very professional
acrobatic/story telling
show. These good
people are partially
sponsored by a
non-profit foundation
called
EatArt.org
which is dedicated to
promoting energy
awareness through art .
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We've
seen this bus before
quite a number of years
ago but never got to
meet the owner until
Hemp Fest ... This is
one amazing school bus
conversion.It has WiFi ,
satellite radio ,back up
camera , a tracking
solar panel setup and
one of the most perfect
jobs of adding a second
bus body for a roof
raise you'll ever see.
After traveling the
Hippy trails for many
years Millie & I have
seen a bunch of buses
with VW van bodies &
smaller bus's used for
this application but
nothing compared to this
bus ....The seems where
the bodies are joined
are perfectly
constructed .
The owner has lived on
this bus for many years
and does the Barter Fair
circuit where he sets up
his large tent and sells
Flea Markety' sorts of
stuff .... He
wants to run his rig off
of Veggie oil , so he's
looking for a diesel bus
with the same wheelbase
,when he finds one he'll
switch over the body's
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These
final two pictures are
of another lived aboard
bus ,populated by
another group of
artistic musician types
who travel about doing
their thing... |
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We
truly enjoyed this event
. Our fellow vendors
were some of the nicest
and friendliest people
you'll ever meet and the
fair-goers were a nice
mellow bunch too.
If everything works out
right ,we'll do next
years Hemp Fest with our
big crafts booth
setup ... I asked Dan &
his group if they would
consider having me do
next years poster for a
booth space ...they said
,sure ...so I'm busy
working on their poster
design right now ....
Here's the Link to the
Eugene Oregon Emerald
Empire Hemp Fest
website to check out
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