10E2600: Pants Verticators

Filson - 2". $48

Walking Boss. $19.

10E2599: American Stonecraft

These food-safe food slabs, coasters and trivets are made from a fieldstone that American Stonecraft have gathered from farms across greater New England (you too PA!). They are sliced, ground, and polished in their Lowell, MA studio.  Each stone’s farm-provenance is permanently labeled on the underside. Not only are the stones responsibly harvested (I say this w a straight face - meaning the stones are taken from fields, not ripped out of stone walls...) but the team here also execute MENDING WALL DAY (Robert Frost reference to those just joining), and repair fieldstone walls in the wild. Fieldstone wall means stone wall created without binder material, simply chinked together.

Bowls are created too. Fantastic. Available online - or at the Boston Public Market space at Haymarket.

10E2598: 36th Peru Fair - Saturday, September 23, 2017

"The Peru Fair began in 1978 as the “end of the world tag sale.” but what had evolved is not what a tag-saler would ever dream of.  Each year approximately 100 exhibitors converge on the tiny village of Peru, Vermont located off Route 11...

Early morning of the fair, booths, displays, and crafts are set up, smells of food begin to stretch across and before too long, the parade of whimsical characters officially opens the Fair and music and entertainment fill the air. 

Proceeds of the Fair are donated to the Peru Scholarship Fund. The Peru Scholarship Fund is a non-profit organization that distributes educational scholarships to the children of Peru for higher education." - Via PeruFair.Org

There is a full-on pig roast ($15) and plenty of other food vendors around, hay and pony rides, music, demos and clogging. What else do you need? $6 entry donation to the Town of Peru Scholarship Fund. No dogs. Opening parade starts at 9:45 - coffee onsite.

You'd think Mid September in southern Vermont might be cool but it often happens to be a blazing hot day. Pace yourself beer-tent-animals...   Bring a bag of some kind for your homestead syrup haul. The roast lunch is pretty decent... 

 

10E2597: Dipped Enamel Service

Constructed from commercial grade steel and rugged porcelain enamel. 12 pieces total; four 9½"dinner plates, four bowls, and four tumblers...  USA. $230 shipped via Barn Light Electric.

10E2596: Cookbook Sale - West of Boston Aug 13th

Readers in the 617 and 508!  It is allllmost county fair time. Until then if you need a leafy drive on Sunday and some pastries as you browse cookbooks - come out to the Acton, MA farmers market this weekend.  The Friends of the Acton Libraries are slingin cookbooks - then you can pop by the nearby True West brewery and pour one out for Sam Shepard. sundaysundaysundaybethere!

Event link. Free.

Hey 'villens - short commuter ride from Porter Sq. Bring yer bike out if you want.

10E2595: Kick Start

The fascination with 'scrambler' type motorbikes has a rich vein too in trials bikes. More popular in Europe, popularized on British telly in the 80s with a show called Kick Start.

In the Kick Start format, the riders went over obstacles such as piles of logs, oil drums, rockeries, water troughs, up a wall, up steep banking or a cliff-face and over [cars]. Penalties, in the form of time added to their round time, would be given for putting a foot on the ground while tackling an obstacle or touching or knocking over specified parts of an obstacle (such as the "bunny hop").

A video-game inspired by the series called Kikstart was released for the Commodore 64 in 1985 by Mastertronic. It was also released for the ZX Spectrum [wow...]- via wiki

This was Saturday tv I grew up with in the UK in the 80s - fantastic.  Trials motocross, then rally driving, then boxing.  Full morning of viewing... A whole world of retro source material too if you have never seen before...