Fall Crafts Show at Lyndhurst - by the Half Moon Press

September, 1997 issue

Fall Crafts Show at Lyndhurst The annual Fall Crafts Show at Lyndhurst promises improved facilities. A "super tent" will replace the two tents used previously and organizers anticipate that it will reduce aisle crowding, minimize muddy conditions in heavy rains and make the tented area larger, brighter, and cooler.

Artrider Productions, which conducts the show, will experiment with a new high-tech flooring system to allow visitors to walk on the site without getting wet or muddy. There will also be a new covered ticket/information pavilion and redesigned fencing to "create a more efficient circulation pattern and shorter waits at ticket lines."

The thirteenth Fall Craft Show will feature 342 crafts people from 34 states, who exhibit and sell one of a kind pieces in a wide range of styles, including jewelry, ceramics, hand-blown glass, fiber, wearable art, wood and leather.

Besides the spectacular display of crafts outside and inside the "super tent," visitors may tour the historic mansion, listen to continuous live music and enjoy children's activities such as story-telling. There will be a special arts and crafts area where children may create their own masterpieces.

Kraft Foods property, which is next door to Lyndhurst, will be available for visitor parking. A free shuttle bus system will bring visitors from various parking areas throughout Tarrytown to the ticket booth. Metro-North riders will also be picked up by a shuttle bus and brought to the site.

Show hours are Friday, September 19 from 10 a.m. - 5 p.m., Saturday, September 20 from 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. and Sunday, September 21 from 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. General admission is $7; children 6 - 16, $3. Lyndhurst is located on Route 9, Tarrytown, a mile south of the Tappan Zee Bridge.