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Thanks to everyone who came out for making the Apple Fest such a huge success! Check out photos here.

Stay tuned for information about our Spring 2009 Colporteur.

Enter the Margins...the Colporteurs Program
Named after the bags they carried around their necks and famed for keeping mystery, romance, religious, and cook books circulating among the greater masses in 18th and 19th century France, colporteurs evaded official censorship and evoked adventure and resistance at the margins of society. Colporteurs were rebels of a joyful sort and enabled their clients and patrons to see beyond their present constraints.

Our Inaugural Colporteurs-in-Residence Series:

The Granny Mae Series
Granny Mae Rhoades was a native of backwoods Arkansas. She lived through hard and joyful times “down on the farm” and in the cotton patches of the American South. She lived her married life in Oklahoma sharing love and a wealth of knowledge about gardening and cooking with her family, church, and community.  Until she passed away on November 5, 2007 at the age of ninety-three her energy and humor infected everyone around her.  The 2008-2009 Colporteurs-in-Residence Series is dedicated in her honor.