August 5, 2009
Talk about fun! I've been having so much fun this summer I'm just about exhausted. But every weekend Judy and I have been someplace showing our historic prints and books. We got home Sunday night around midnight from the Union County Fair in La Grande, Oregon. Truly, it wasn't the most enjoyable experience. With temperatures running into the triple digets most every day, people stayed away in droves. It wasn't until 6 o'clock or so before people started venturing out to the good ole fair. So we sat around there all day and visited with other vendors until we knew each others business quite well. I went to that fair primarly to promote "The Hot Lake Story", the book by Richard Roth. It created a lot of interest, and although we didn't sell all 4 cases of the books that I took down, it was well worth being there.
My logging collection of historic prints certinally received a lot of attention. La Grande is an old logging and milling town. In fact the County Fair site is on an old saw mill site. In fact I took the print down of the mill that used to be there, the Palmer Lumber Company's sawmill. The other La Grande pictures created interest and I sold nearly every one of the 1930 picture of La Grande after a snowfall.
This week is a gravy week. We're spending it at home getting things caught up for Auburn's Good Old Days this weekend. I'm really looking forward to it. It's not supposed to get too hot, and that sounds real good to me. I already have several pictures sold of Auburn. A customer from the Enumclaw Street Fair a couple weeks ago called today because he'd given away his prints and wanted more. When I told him I'd be there Saturday and Sunday he really got excited. If you anywhere close drop in and see me.
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