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News from Garfield Farm |
The 50th Annual Fox Valley Spring Antiques
Show to benefit Garfield Farm Museum will be held on Saturday and
Sunday March 10 and 11th beginning at 10 am each day at the Kane County
Fairgrounds in St.Charles, IL. The show ends on Saturday at 6 pm and on
Sunday at 4 pm.
There will be 55 dealers from 14 states
featured at the show that is produced by the Chicago Suburban Antique
Dealers Association (CSADA). This year a special theme will be Antiques
for the Garden.
“We have come full circle,” stated
Jerome Johnson, executive director and a founding board member of
Garfield Farm Museum. “Our late founder, Eve S. Johnson,
developed an interest in antiques when working in the late 1940s at
Geneva’s Little Traveler, a specialty import shop.”
In 1967, the late Iva Storch of
St.Charles, IL founded Thornapple Questers, a chapter of the Questers
International, an antique enthusiasts and research society. As members
of Thornapple Questers, Johnson and the late June Anderson Ziegler,
began lobbying to restore the Bryant Durant House in LeRoy Oakes Forest
Preserve. Members of Thornapple and others established Restorations of
Kane County (RKC) to oversee the restoration. To help RKC in that
effort, the CSADA was approached to participate in a Fall Antique Show
which is still run by the Preservation Partners, as RKC was renamed.
Miss Elva Ruth Garfield, seeing the
restoration of Durant House, approached Johnson and in 1977, they
established Garfield Heritage Society and Campton Historic Agricultural
Lands, two non profits to save and preserve the buildings and land of
Garfield Farm Museum. As Garfield Farm Museum celebrates its 30th
anniversary, it is embarking on its last major project, completing the
restoration of all its buildings. Reconnecting with the antique
enthusiasts community that inspired the preservation of Garfield Farm
is key to the museum’s success.
The CSADA is a special group with a limited,
selective membership that requires the highest standards of
authenticity of the antiques offered, ethical conduct, courtesy,
honesty and friendly professional service to the public. Many of the
dealers only exhibit at shows so this is a rare opportunity to see
their prized inventory. There is an abundance of 18th and 19th century
American and English pieces from furniture, accessories, folk art,
paintings, ceramics, glass, clothing, books, prints, pottery, textiles,
and more to be found at the show.
For the show, the CSADA invites select dealers
from out of state. This year Vermont, Indiana, Michigan, Colorado,
Iowa, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Ohio, New
Hampshire, Maine, Kentucky, and Missouri will be represented. This
offers an additional diversity of pieces that may otherwise only be
found in abundance in those states.
There will also be during the show “Five
Minute Lectures” by individual exhibitors for the public’s
education. On Saturday at 2:00 pm a talk on Botanical Prints will
be given by Chelsea Galleries, booth # 47 and at 3:00 pm Donna Finegan
will speak on Early-mid 19th Century Clothing at Booth # 35. On Sunday
at 12:00 a talk on Art Restoration will be offered by Landmarks
Gallery, booth # 37 and at 1:00 pm Garfield Farm Museum will speak on
Heirloom Flowers at booth 10A.
Admission to the show is $8.00 per person and
parking is free. Luncheon and refreshments offered by Inglenook Pantry
of Geneva, IL will be available. For further information visit
www.csada.com or call (815) 838-0606 or e-mail info@garfieldfarm.org or
call the museum at (630) 584-8485. The Kane County Fairgrounds are
located on the west side of Randall Road between ILL Routes 64 and 38.