Atypical Tintypes
by Martha Whitney Butler
- this month, meet Michael N. Foster, who's reviving an earlier art form with a contemporary twist!
I had the pleasure of hanging out with "The Tin Man," as I affectionately deemed him, while he visited. I made sure to accompany him to the local Waffle House with friends after a fun night at Smith & Lens Gallery where he prepared for his shoot. Owners Ann Madden and Sandy Maggio showed him the town, all the while mentally preparing him for his upcoming fame in Bay St. Louis. They had a feeling that he'd be booked solid the next day at Arts Alive! with so many spirited art patrons crawling the streets.
Yours truly was his first appointment. I'm surprised I made it after a night that involved a Waffle House appearance, but I had been practicing my pose for a week and I was dedicated to my a.m. time slot. Here is the fantastic result:
I caught up with Michael after Arts Alive! to get the layman's lowdown on his sorcery. Here's how he explained it:
"The process is called 'wet-plate collodion process' and depending what you are shooting on, glass or metal, it's either an ambrotype or tintype. I process the plate, sensitize it, and process it in a dark room. When you do this, you're creating a layer of film to take the picture on. I use aluminum to back the photos and just put the plate in my camera to take the picture." Simple, right? This process dates back to the mid-1800s and was discovered by Frederick Scott Archer. In the antique world, these tin types are a hot commodity. When I asked him about his stay the Bay, I could sense the excited exhaustion in his tone, "It was awesome! I honestly left feeling like I knew everybody. Y'all were such a joy to be around. I was thoroughly surprised by the art scene in Bay St. Louis and it was one of the busiest sessions I've had."
After a day of shooting some of the most interesting characters in town, including the ladies of The Raw Oyster Marching Club, Foster produced a bevy of cathartic images of a community draped in beauty and bursting with intrigue. He's planning to return to the Bay for a photography project featuring The Raw Oyster Marching Club.
I knew it wasn't an ordinary photograph. I understood that it was a chance to perhaps find myself sitting on the shelf of a quaint antique shop one day, sparking the intrigue of passersby and eventually moving on to a new venue. I could travel in this portrait. There's no telling where I will end up. It is my vessel through years and years of inevitable time. I'm bound to this earth by a photograph that captured my soul - and I am okay with that.
Just plan right now on spending the whole day in Old Town April 11th! Enjoy BBQ and music for lunch at the Stella Blues and BBQ festival (in the Depot District!), then laze on the beach afterward. Shop and check out Artwalk openings in the afternoon. Finish out the evening with dinner in one of our restaurants, then dancing under the stars to Rockin' Dopsie back at the festival! How's that for an agenda?
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story and photography by Ellis Anderson
- This month - the sedate Creole exterior of the Bagley house gives no clue that inside, Monet's palette of colors and show-stopping artwork bring a slice of France to Main Street.
Sandra says, “While we were working on repainting, Scott and I joked about channeling Monet and would ask, ‘what would old Claude do?’ Monet’s not my favorite artist, but the colors seemed to work for us and it was fun doing it. Tomorrow could be Jackson Pollock.”
Sandra’s a noted artist herself and her striking paintings – mostly of people – populate the house. Her own rich palette brings to mind renaissance portraits and the characters pop to life against rich wall colors. “At first we wondered why Monet chose those colors,” she says. “Then the light hit the walls and we understood. We liked how it gave emphasis to my paintings and our other artwork.” While 318 Main also seems similar to Giverny in age, it was built in 2002 by the Bagleys. The design is based on a New Orleans raised center hall cottage the couple admired. Although the Bagleys call themselves “painfully nostalgic,” they worked with an architect to skillfully incorporate contemporary features like plenty of storage space and energy efficiency in the final design. The finished home fits seamlessly into the landscape of Bay St. Louis. Scott says they’ve had lifelong residents of the town insist they “remember” the house from their childhoods. It all seems the epitome of elegant Southern living. The move to Bay St. Louis represented a homecoming of sorts to the Bagleys, who weren’t able to spend much of their working lives in the region of their birth. Scott and Sandra both grew up in Fayetteville, Tennessee, where they met in 5th grade (Sandra says that by 7th grade, she thought Scott was cute and their future was set). They married after college and Scott spent his working career as an attorney in the Air Force. Over the years, the Bagleys lived at least fifteen different places, including Europe, where they toured Giverny for the first time.
They were living stateside in Los Angeles when Scott neared retirement. The South called for several reasons, foremost being their daughter Drew. She’d been accepted to Ole Miss on a dance scholarship (where she was also a Rebelette for four years). They wanted to provide a home base for Drew while she was in college.
A friend who lived in Biloxi and knew of Sandra’s commitment to her art career called and said “Have I got the place for you!” Sandra recalls, “She went on to say ‘This place has your name written all over it. It’s called Bay St. Louis.” The stars began aligning. Scott had family in Pass Christian and had fond memories of the Gulf Coast. The couple had a romantic attachment to the coast as well – they had honeymooned in the old Broadwater in 1973. They both loved New Orleans and liked the idea of living nearby. They’d be fairly close to Drew while she was in college. So in 2001, the couple flew into New Orleans, rented a car at the airport and drove into Bay St. Louis at night. While having dinner at a beach restaurant, they noticed an incredible mural, depicting the biggest moon they’d ever seen, reflected over the bay and framed by enormous oak trees. Then they realized the scene before them was no painting – it was real. “It captured us,” says Scott. “Bay St. Louis seemed like such a real place. Its authentic character makes it unlike any other city or town we’d visited.” They purchased a lot on Main Street and worked with architect/developer Stuart Farnet to build the house. The center hall design allowed the front and back doors to be opened in fair weather and a breeze would cool the entire house. The spacious screened front porch made outdoor living in any weather pleasant and bug-free. And the wood-burning fireplace added old world ambiance. Upstairs there was room for two spacious bedrooms and an open painting studio for Sandra. Scott’s library had a dedicated room of its own as well. Construction was completed in 2003 and when the Bagleys moved in, they found additional reasons to appreciate their new home. “We loved the people and the activities on the weekends,” says Scott. “And the fact you could walk everywhere. In Los Angeles, you have to drive everywhere, so you spend a lot of time in your car.”
The Bagleys also began developing the gardens, with Scott taking the lead and working with a retired horticulturist friend, Jane McKinnon. McKinnon suggested that they extend their center hall into the garden and place a fountain at the end of it, a project that was carried through with remarkable effect. When the back door is open, visitors entering the front have their eyes drawn down the hallway and along the brick walkway to rest on the splashing fountain. Between the screen front porch with its tiled floor and the back porch gardens, the outer walls of the house seem like room dividers rather than demarcations between indoors and out.
The Bagleys also wanted a shaded yard, so planted nearly twenty trees. They added to the large water oaks already on the property and created stands of river birch and crepe myrtles, accented with live oaks and cypress. Most of the water oaks went down in Katrina and the house was flooded with two feet of gulf muck. Fortunately, the Bagleys were able to live upstairs while the house was being renovated. Today, it’s impossible to detect any signs of damage. On the ground floor, the living, dining and kitchen areas flow into each other on one side of the wide center hall. The other side contains the library, separated from the master bedroom by a wall of closets and a spacious bath. At the top of the hallway staircase, Sandra’s open, light studio is flanked by two large bedrooms. Once Drew’s domain, it’s now a paradise for two grandsons. Sandra’s also a certified yoga instructor and B.G. (Before Grandchildren), taught classes in the uplifting space. Sandra, an award-winning artist, works in oils and explains that her paintings are created using her fingers instead of her brush. “Using brushes would make me come across as tight. Using my fingers, I felt like I could get in there and make the paint go where I wanted it to go.” In her early days as a painter, she was drawn to landscapes, when teacher Diane Tessler advised Sandra to begin taking portrait classes. Tessler pointed out that any house Sandra painted seemed to have a face. That's certainly true at 318 Main Street. A Souper Second Saturday - March 14th by Lisa Monti This Month - Souper Mudfest takes the town by storm in one of the most popular events of the year, with Hot Spots Biz-zee Bee and Alternate Reality Artist Gallery! A New Merry-Making Marching Club - The Raw Oysters by Ellis Anderson -This month - a sassy new group of marching women took to the streets for the first time on Lundi Gras to rave reviews.
Raw Oyster’s founder and organizer, Martha Whitney Butler, says she’s always enjoyed watching the groups that march and dance in New Orleans’ many parades and felt that Hancock County “had a need” for its own local band of merry-makers. Butler owns the French Potager in Old Town Bay St. Louis where she sells antiques and her distinctive flower arrangements. She’s an active member of the community and serves on the board of The Arts, Hancock County. Yet, the first time the club marched on February 16th, she wasn’t sure how the public would respond to a glittery dance team of feisty women flaunting costumes of red and gold. “We were a huge hit!” Butler says. “In less than one week following the Seahorse parade, we had over 500 ‘likes’ on our Facebook page. We were also featured in almost every media outlet on the Mississippi gulf coast.” That same evening, the group also received invitations to march in both Jackson’s and Waveland’s St. Patrick’s Day parades. Schedule conflicts forced them to decline the Jackson gig this year, but it’s clear the Raw Oyster Marching Club is going places. Lots of places. It’s also growing - the group is up to forty-five members now. Thirty of the group marched with Seahorse and twenty will be marching in the Waveland parade on March 14th. Butler says that having forty-plus members assures a good group will commit to any parade they’re asked to join. Commitment and enthusiasm are key requirements for membership at this point. The group plans to learn a different dance for each performance opportunity. Founding member and serious dance diva Chloé Harville works with Butler to choreograph the numbers, and rehearsals are held twice a week for six weeks before a parade. Costumer Laura Kidd (who creates costume headdresses professionally) also takes her job seriously. The red and gold costumes for the premier performance lit up the evening parade, but the group’s opting for a costume change for the upcoming Waveland event, when they’ll wear gold dresses and green wigs in honor of the club’s first queen, fabled dancer Kitty West. West became nationally renowned for her “Evangeline, the Oyster Girl” dance she choreographed and performed for decades, beginning in the late 1940s in New Orleans. The show told the story of Evangeline, who slept in an oyster shell in the swamps of Louisiana and rose once every hundred years to seek her beloved. West’s performances drew Hollywood greats like Frank Sinatra and Richard Widmark to the French Quarter and became so legendary that the dance routine is a popular draw even today in both Texas and New Orleans venues, nearly seven decades after it originated. Butler had read about Kitty West in a book two years before and had been excited to learn later that the retired dancer lived in the Bay area. She also found stunning vintage photographs of West and her oyster shell stage prop. “I was looking for a theme for the club that would be locally relevant,” says Butler. “West is iconic in the entertainment field and oysters are such a part of the culture here, so it all seemed a perfect fit.” During the Seahorse Parade, Kitty West, now in her eighties, elegantly reigned over the club from a “throne” set up along the parade route. The club paid homage to their first queen by presenting her with a bouquet of roses and performing their routine. West, who has been featured twice in Life magazine, says “I want to be able to try to help these young girls coming up who want to get out there and dance. I want them to be artistic and to have class.”
The Arts Alive celebration blooms with creativity this spring on March 21st!
Produced by The Arts, Hancock County, the festival is actually comprised of several events taking place simultaneously and encompasses the visual, literary, musical, and culinary arts. The Artists Showcase is the main focus of the event, with dozens of artists showing and selling their work at “host” businesses in Old Town. Free demonstrations and talks by the artists about their techniques take place through the day. The showcase is open to artists nationwide for a nominal fee ($25 for members of The Arts, Hancock County, $50 for non-members, which includes a year’s membership in The Arts). Artists are paired with host businesses for the day and are featured on the event’s website and in the event program. Deadline for artists to register is March 4th. Applications are available at www.ArtsAliveGulfCoast.com. But there’s a competitive side to this new ArtsAlive! “Think of it as sort of an ‘American Idol’ for the arts,” says The Arts president Cynthia Mahner, smiling. “Our new motto is ‘Celebrating Art, Engaging Communities and Enriching Lives!’ So we’re staging events that will engage entire families and get them excited about creative endeavors of all kinds. People can come out and cheer on their favorite artist or student.” Several different competitions are offering nearly $3,000 in cash prizes for top contestants on the day of the event. There will be a “Flash Fiction” writer’s contest which is open to all ages. Writers are given just three hours to write a story about a specific topic, announced that morning. There’s also a “Southern Sweets” culinary competition, and a singer-songwriter competition that has already attracted entries from all over our area. In addition, a juried art show and high school student art show - both offering generous cash prizes - will be on display. In the afternoon, a fun theatre tableau will take place on the courthouse steps, with actors bringing to life the characters from a famous painting. Mahner says the new ArtsAlive has been enthusiastically embraced by both artists and Old Town merchants. “The response has exceeded our expectations again this year and that’s always a great place to be.” For complete ArtsAlive! information, click here. by Regan Carney This month - To grow food, the world needs bees. But the bees are in trouble - why and how can we help? photographs by Ellis Anderson
Bees are a varied group of insects. In the USA alone there are at least four thousand different species. Bumblebees and sweat bees come to mind right away. Most of the bees that live around us are “solitary,” meaning that they don’t live in a hive and most of them do not make honey. But most of them ARE interested in flowers, so they make excellent pollinators. They are not the only insect that acts that way, but they are the most well known. The early settlers of this country brought their friendly honeybees with them, so that their crops would be pollinated and so that the colonist could have that honey, Ah that sweet honey! They set up beehives near their fields, and apiculture was off in America! It has become a very big and necessary business. As farms have gotten larger and less diverse in what they grow, they have had to truck in mobile hives. The scientists are beginning to think that this may be stressing the bees. The farmers are using pesticides and herbicides on their crops. The scientists think this may also be stressing the bees. The bees are fed corn syrup during the winter. The scientists think this may not have a diverse enough nutrition and it is stressing the bees. Someone imported bees that may have had a virus that is spreading through the bee population on the backs of a mite and that may be killing the bees. This has lead to Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD). The number of hives that die off per year varies across the country. It ranged from 20% to 64% in 2013. It seems to be leveling off, but the numbers are still high and worrisome because no one knows exactly what is causing it. The native bees are also being affected, but there are no numbers on them. The honeybee, at least the worker, only lives up to a couple of months. A male drone dies right after mating with the queen. A queen can live for three to five years. There are up to 1,500 bee eggs being produced at any one time. A hive will contain 20,000 to 80,000 bees. We may be able to help the insect world by making the land around our houses bug friendly. Here's how: 1. If you are going to spray pesticides on your plants or house, please read the instructions: spraying when plants are flowering will accidently kill the bees. Most bees are not aggressive. They will sting to protect their hive and then die, so they have to really need to do that. Most bugs are good for your garden (OK, not all of them, but most of them) and they will generally set up a balance. 2. Try alternatives to pesticides. How about soap spray (I use Ivory soft soap and water). Use the least harmful first and give it time to work, rather than whipping out the big guns first. There has been a lot of research about the communities of bacteria, bugs and nutrients in your garden soil. Smart observation, research and small changes will lead to better solutions. 3. If you realize that your house, a piece of outdoor furniture, or a tree on your land has become colonized with a hive, call a bee rescuer before killing the hive. It is important that bee diversity is maintained and rescuing hives is one of the ways to do that. Or you could become a bee keeper! 4. Plant a wildflower garden NOW. Diversity of plant life is good for the bugs, the environment, and yourself! See below for a chart suggesting things to plant from kidsgardening.org 5. Gulf Coast Bee Keepers Association meets 2nd Tuesdays at 7 pm in the Gulf Coast Community College Science building. Contact Dan Triplett at dan@honeybeerescuer.com Learn more! Jeffrey W. Harris, PhD Ext. Research Apiculturist Jharris@entomology.msstate.edu The Honeybee Health Coalition: https://keystone.org/bee-health, or contact Julie Shapiro at jshapiro@keystone.org Jon Entine, Science Collapse Disorder--The Real Story Behind Neonics and Mass Bee Deaths. Forbes, 4/11/2013 Lisa Granshaw, 5 Fun Facts About Bees — and How You Can Help These Disappearing Insects, vetSTREET.com, July 10, 2013 Encaustic art by local artist Kat Fitzpatrick The word encaustic is taken from the Greek and means “to burn in.” In the encaustic process, pigmented beeswax is applied and then fused to a surface with heat. The result is a broad range of surface effects and a luminous translucency that is unique to the encaustic medium. Check out Kat's website for more images of her work or to sign up for a class.
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by Lisa Monti This month - Second Saturday and Valentine's Day coincide! What could be more fun - or a more apropos? photos by Ellis Anderson Second Saturday Artwalk in Old Town - February 14th
by Philip L. Levin, MD This Month - The Arts Alive! festival returns to Old Town Bay St. Louis in March. Learn how you can be part of this dynamic event that will get your creative muses buzzing!
Dozens of artists will show work, demonstrate technique and share their creative process with customers at shops and galleries throughout Old Town. A juried art show offers cash prizes. With a singer-songwriter competition, a culinary contest and a literary event - ArtsAlive! brings out the creative muse in crowds all day long. The event has been produced by The Arts, Hancock County for more than a decade, but in 2014, the organization launched a completely fresh concept, winning over participating artists, Old Town merchants and festival goers who came from as far away as North Carolina. According to Cynthia Mahner, president of The Arts, “ArtsAlive! exposes our community to art and fosters creativity in children and adults throughout the coast community. And it gives professionals and aspiring artists, writers, chefs, and musicians a place to showcase their talents." “It’s also more engaging than a typical art show, since you get to see artists creating and competing. It’s a very exciting day for both artists and the public." Last year over $4,000 in prize money was awarded in the various competitions and more than 100 writers, songwriters, chefs and visual artists participated. This year two-dozen local businesses will sponsor artists along the streets of Bay St. Louis. Many of the restaurants, such as the Bay Town Inn, Trapani’s Eatery, and the Cypress Café will have painters demonstrating in their front yards. Jewelers, potters, needlepointers, and even furniture makers will be out in front of various businesses, providing a unique opportunity to meet artists at their work and see how they create their masterpieces. The Singer-Songwriter showcase will be sponsored again this year through the Mockingbird café. Live performances occur all afternoon, with a finalist sing-off showdown in the evening. Four hundred dollars cash prizes ensure high quality singers, with a good time for all listeners. The Literary Showcase will partner with Bay Books to give writers a chance to shine, including a bevy of local authors signing their books through the day along Main Street. The Aspiring Writers contest promotes writing for students, with a big participation from the grade school and high school levels. Last year’s “Flash Fiction” contest with cash prizes was a big success, and will be repeated again this year. For more excitement, Bay Books will be adding a poetry contest this year. In the Culinary Showcase, amateur chefs will bring their strongest contenders to the Sweets of the South competition during ArtsAlive! 2015, with cash prizes awarded to the top three winners. Members of the public even get to sample the candies, cakes and pies to help select a People’s Choice Award. Even acting will be represented, with members of the Bay St. Louis Little Theatre presenting a short performance on the Courthouse lawn. Those interested in participating should sign up immediately. Please go to www.artsalivegulfcoast.com for complete information and entry forms. Entry deadline for the juried art show is February 28, 2015. Tarts and Tramps and Pirates and Wenches In former times, residents of Bay-Waveland closed the lids of their costume boxes after Halloween and stored them in the closet until the beginning of Carnival season. No more. Last November, The Arts, Hancock County rocked the event scene in Bay St. Louis with a Vaudeville-themed costume ball. Organizers were pleasantly surprised when more than 150 patrons - mostly in costume - attended the 2013 Tarts and Tramps Ball to benefit the non-profit. The event was the talk of the town for weeks after. The grand finale included choreographed dance numbers by a group of local women who perform under the name “Big Sleazy Burlesque.” Although their show was “G” rated and a far cry from “sleazy,” it brought down the house with cheers and laughter. “People are still talking about the ball a year later,” says Arts president, Cynthia Mahner. “How many times does that happen?” After hearing accounts of the first annual ball, those who missed it swore they’d catch it next year. Fortunately, next year has arrived. The Second Annual Tarts and Tramps Ball Benefit will take place on Saturday, November 15th, from 7pm – 11pm at the historic 100 Men Hall in Bay St. Louis. But this time, there’s a new spin. That Saturday also happens to be “Pirate Day in the Bay.” Pirate Day is a warm-up event for the 200th anniversary of the battle of the Bay of St. Louis, which is slated for December 13th. Pirate Day features several activities, including a costume contest in the afternoon. “Two costume events taking place in the middle of November? Only in Hancock County,” says Mahner, laughing. “So we opted for a pirate spin too this year. Mixing vaudeville and buccaneers is over-the-top silly, but that way people can wear the same costumes all day, swaggering around town in the afternoon and dancing with us in the evening. We look at it as a creative opportunity.” The Tarts and Tramps/Pirates and Wenches Ball will feature food by the Silver Slipper Casino, beer from Lazy Magnolia Brewery, a cash bar and a vaudeville-style variety show. The entertainment line-up includes (of course!) the Big Sleazy Burlesque, The House Katz band, Ivory Bill – “rare, rockin’ Americana” - and more local favorites. Tickets for the benefit are $25 in advance and $30 at the door. To make it easy, patrons can purchase advance tickets on-line. They’re also available at The French Potager and Bay Books in Old Town. Tickets will be available at the door. This year, the Arts is inviting local businesses to participate by sponsoring tables at the event. A 22-top is $100, a 12-top table is $60 and a 4-top is $20. Businesses can decorate them according to the Pirate or Vaudeville theme using advertising and promotional materials (contact The Arts for details!) Favored costumed are vampy attire for women, trampy attire for men and of course, anything that might be found in a buccaneer's sea chest. Mixing up the two themes is encouraged. All proceeds support various programs of The Arts, like the popular Imagination Station for children and the annual Arts Alive! event, which will take place in March of 2015. Mahner is enthusiastic about the early community response to the 2014 event. “As our main fund-raiser for the year, the ball is a financial force for ArtsAlive!,” says Mahner. “But it’s also a fun way for The Arts to connect with members of the community - while partnering with other nonprofits, businesses, and community organizations.”
The Second Saturday Artwalk in Bay St. Louis began over two decades ago with a simple premise: everybody loves a party. During the monthly celebration from 5pm – 8pm, galleries, boutiques, restaurants and cafés in Old Town give both locals and visitors from around the region a chance to check out new art shows, live music acts, coastal cuisine and special showings of new merchandise. And judging by the smiling crowds strolling the streets each Second Saturday, that concept has made the event one of the most popular on the entire Mississippi Gulf Coast. Adding to the allure, each month two different Old Town merchants are tagged as “Hot Spots.” For the July 9th Second Saturday, the spotlight falls on Clay Creations and You’re Invited. One of the oldest continuously operating businesses in Old Town, Clay Creations is the brainchild of artist Jenise McCardell, who’s been fashioning small ceramic sculptures of regional homes, schools and churches along the Gulf Coast since 1980. The business has become a family affair through the years, as McCardell’s been joined by her husband, potter Mark Currier and daughter Devon. “People collect memories through my art,” said McCardell. “My favorite creations are custom pieces I make for customers who provide photos of their homes or businesses.” Both the Clay Creations working studio and gallery – where over 1000 different designs are on display – are located at 220 Main Street, in Gallery 220. McCardell owns the show-stopping art deco building, sharing the space with over twenty other artists in the cooperative venture. As one of the July Hot Spots, Clay Creations is hosting their annual salad contest, with local patrons and Gallery 220 artists bringing in their favorite culinary masterpieces. Winners will be awarded a plaque depicting the Waveland Garfield Ladner Fishing Pier, one of McCardell’s latest designs. “After the salad judging, gallery visitors get to eat the entries,” said McCardell, laughing. “We’ll also have live music by the fabulous Desoto Band from New Orleans, so ya’ll come on down!” A block away at 111B Main Street, the name of the featured business says it all: “You’re Invited!” Owner Beverly Diaz presides over a shop brimming with innovative invitations, stationary and cards. You’re Invited has been an Old Town favorite for over nine years, offering a service that is unique on the Gulf Coast. Customers can choose from hundreds of blank invitation designs for all occasions – bridal, dinner and cocktail parties, baby announcements, birthday, and anniversary celebrations. Later the same day, the completed invites are ready for mailing, with the wording of their choice printed on the cards. Not that the choice will be easy. Diaz stocks an enormous number of designs, ranging from sophisticated to whimsical. Kids will be mesmerized by the fanciful cupcake, frog and flip-flop invitations, while brides-to-be can opt for either elegant or light-hearted announcements. New products include creations by Lilly Pulitzer, Casparia, Paula Skene and Fauz Design. To celebrate her Hot Spot status, Diaz will be serving “exceptional” food throughout the evening with music and a DJ. Three other neighbors at the 111 Main Street location have joined You’re Invited in hosting a free hourly drawing, from 4-8pm. Simply by signing up, shoppers will have a chance at a gift from one of the shops. Other notable Second Saturday “Don’t Miss” activities include:
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