Arts & crafts center Christmas gift market
Frank Speziale photo
MORRIS – This year’s Christmas Gift Market will take place throughout the month of December and will feature a special
performance by The Bridges String Quartet.
The performance will be from 10 until noon on Saturday, December 16, at the Butternut Valley Arts & Crafts Center, located at 124 Main Street, Morris.
The Bridges String Quartet has performed at the Art Center on several occasions, drawing in music lovers from around the area. The quartet has given their time and their audience donations to the Art Center’s Building Repair Fund. Members of the quartet include violinists Julie Koch from Morris, and Barbara Bonebrake from Oneonta, violist Jeane Bennett-O'Dea from Mt. Vision, and cellist Susan Andrus from Morris.
The Butternut Valley Arts & Crafts Center building is an historic-designated building on the National Register of Historic Places. From 1832 when it was first built, the building housed a general store, then a post office, then a hardware store. Rebuilt in 1903 and finished with a handsome false front reminiscent of those in the old western movies, it housed yet another hardware store, then a dry goods general store.
In 1921 the village’s Kenyon Free Library moved in for 50 years. Finally, in 1970, through donation of the local John Whitman family, the Butternut Valley Arts & Crafts Center had a home. For several years, the Center has also hosted Artists’ Markets, fashioned after the popular local summertime Farmers’ Market, with vendors selling handmade crafts and foods.
This year, artist Marilyn Roveland has donated an original winter scene she painted specifically for the Building Repair Fund Raffle at the Christmas Gift Market. Local artists will be on site selling a selection of gifts including Pysanky egg ornaments, corn brooms, wood carvings, barrel-top art, woven woolens, fine jewelry, baked goods, notecards, fabric bags, rustic furniture, and chocolate Christmas trees. The Christmas Gift Market will be open Thursdays and Fridays from 5p p.m. to 7 p.m. and Saturdays from 9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., beginning December 8 and running through December 23.
Villagers and townspeople tend to be proud of their old buildings. They rally around and support them in many ways—financially through donating funds, physically by donating their time to the upkeep, and emotionally by attending the classes, events, and fundraisers. The Butternut Valley Arts & Crafts Center is grateful to
everyone who comes in and spends some time, enjoys themselves and helps to keep the building in good repair.
The Bridges String Quartet will play at the Morris Christmas Gift Market this weekend. Members of the quartet include: violinists Barbara Bonebrake from Oneonta, Julie Koch from Morris, violist Jeane Bennett-O'Dea from Mt. Vision, and cellist Susan Andrus from Morris. (Frank Speziale photo)
MORRIS – This year’s Christmas Gift Market will take place throughout the month of December and will feature a special
performance by The Bridges String Quartet.
The performance will be from 10 until noon on Saturday, December 16, at the Butternut Valley Arts & Crafts Center, located at 124 Main Street, Morris.
The Bridges String Quartet has performed at the Art Center on several occasions, drawing in music lovers from around the area. The quartet has given their time and their audience donations to the Art Center’s Building Repair Fund. Members of the quartet include violinists Julie Koch from Morris, and Barbara Bonebrake from Oneonta, violist Jeane Bennett-O'Dea from Mt. Vision, and cellist Susan Andrus from Morris.
The Butternut Valley Arts & Crafts Center building is an historic-designated building on the National Register of Historic Places. From 1832 when it was first built, the building housed a general store, then a post office, then a hardware store. Rebuilt in 1903 and finished with a handsome false front reminiscent of those in the old western movies, it housed yet another hardware store, then a dry goods general store.
In 1921 the village’s Kenyon Free Library moved in for 50 years. Finally, in 1970, through donation of the local John Whitman family, the Butternut Valley Arts & Crafts Center had a home. For several years, the Center has also hosted Artists’ Markets, fashioned after the popular local summertime Farmers’ Market, with vendors selling handmade crafts and foods.
This year, artist Marilyn Roveland has donated an original winter scene she painted specifically for the Building Repair Fund Raffle at the Christmas Gift Market. Local artists will be on site selling a selection of gifts including Pysanky egg ornaments, corn brooms, wood carvings, barrel-top art, woven woolens, fine jewelry, baked goods, notecards, fabric bags, rustic furniture, and chocolate Christmas trees. The Christmas Gift Market will be open Thursdays and Fridays from 5p p.m. to 7 p.m. and Saturdays from 9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., beginning December 8 and running through December 23.
Villagers and townspeople tend to be proud of their old buildings. They rally around and support them in many ways—financially through donating funds, physically by donating their time to the upkeep, and emotionally by attending the classes, events, and fundraisers. The Butternut Valley Arts & Crafts Center is grateful to
everyone who comes in and spends some time, enjoys themselves and helps to keep the building in good repair.
The Bridges String Quartet will play at the Morris Christmas Gift Market this weekend. Members of the quartet include: violinists Barbara Bonebrake from Oneonta, Julie Koch from Morris, violist Jeane Bennett-O'Dea from Mt. Vision, and cellist Susan Andrus from Morris. (Frank Speziale photo)
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