If you are planning to visit Main Street’s “A Gettysburg Christmas” Festival this weekend, treat yourself to a venue down a path less traveled. Turn down East Middle Street from Baltimore Street and visit the historic G.A.R. Building for Historic Gettysburg Adams County’s Homespun Christmas and Holiday Market.
If you are seeking a unique gift or something different for holiday décor – or maybe you are in need of a tasty snack – drop by the Homespun Market. Shop for hand-crafted items and satisfy your sweet tooth at HGAC’s traditional bake sale, featuring cookies, cake, and Mamie Eisenhower’s famous fudge. Check out the items handmade by our creative HGAC volunteers — including repurposed holiday crafts from HGAC’s Architectural Salvage Warehouse by Salvage Sisters Kendra Kaufmann and Andie Donahue, and hand-crafted wooden bird houses, Christmas trees, reindeer, and more by HGAC member Mike Koziski. Holiday greens will also be for sale.
The market will include guest vendors, including Bear & Company, Metal Vistas (formerly Mason-Dixon Photography), Stone Ledge Joinery Woodworks and the Panera Tatters. You can also find sea glass art, hand-painted ornaments, and witness tree jewelry.
Hours for the market this year will be from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 5; from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 6; and from noon to 3 p.m. on Sunday, Dec. 7. The GAR Building is located in the middle of the block, at 53 E. Middle Street. (Look for the cannons and the lion statues.)
All money earned through the Homespun market is earmarked for the upkeep and benefit of the historic 203-year-old Grand Army of the Republic Building, the headquarters for the nonprofit Historic Gettysburg Adams County, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. For more information, click on www.HGAConline.org.
Source: HGAC