Fort Wayne Flea Market this wknd, April 13-14
http://historicfortwaynecoalition.com/fleamarket.html
We have sold out on all our vendor tables, so it should be a good event. Admission to the mkt. itself is free, other than the usual $5 parking.
come see the work we've done on the Visitor Center / Gym blg. if you remember it as a dark dreary place, you will be pleasantly surprised. we have added or replaced lighting, and painted the entire place. we still have a lot more to do, but it looks 100% better. we have also replaced the rotted floor in the kitchen, and will be soon applying for a food vending permit so that we can use the cafeteria as a cafeteria again. we are also coming thru soon on some new tables & chairs for the cafeteria to replaced these junky old POS's with the duct tape on em & everything.
tours of the Fort will be conducted as well, so this is a chance to see the place even though we arent officially open for the year yet. Civil War era reenactors will also be on site of course.
BTW we will also have a totally revamped website online soon as well, being as what we have now is a little antiquated.
Miracle at the Fort Wayne Flea
Sorry I'm posting this after the event but I was so busy this weekend. This was the first Fort Wayne Flea that I've missed in many years - and I remember being there for what I thought was the first one, when my 36 year old son was in a stroller.
A story -
My aunt and I were puttering around the market, and after scrounging around in the jewelry on a big table, I look up and there was a huge, ornately framed portrait - of my grandmother!
We were in complete shock! The whole place was reeling after the news spread through the flea market of such a find.
My aunt had had the photo retouched and framed a long time ago and it was a dear possession. Some years later, due to illness and a move she bought a storage unit, that she was unable to keep. It was auctioned off four years before we found it, to a vendor on the far east side, near Romeo Plank - quite a ways from the Fort Wayne Flea.
In those four years the vendor had taken it to many sales but never found a buyer - until we stumbled upon it. My aunt was overwhelmed, and so was I. Another reason for me to love the Fort Wayne Flea Market.