What do you want to do with gourds, in the future, that you haven’t
done before?
I
want to finish my first Gourd Luminary first. I hope to learn to make Thunder
drums. And I will take time to learn to carve gourds well. I hope! After those
things. The things I want to learn just
pile up in my mind.
Is there anything other than the
pleasure you get from decorating gourds that keeps you working at it?
Yes,
I don’t often talk about it, though most people that know me know about it. I
have Parkinson’s disease. So decorating gourds is my therapy as well as my
pleasure. My Dr. tells me that decorating gourds helps keep my mind alive. I must say here my Awesome GOD has been so
good to me. Though I can’t do many of the things I have done before I can still
get up in the morning, I can still talk, with good sense, most of the
time! I know my children, Grandchildren
and my great grandchildren and I know he walks with me everyday
Now back to the Mississippi Gourd
Festival, tell us what we need to know If we want to go to the festival.
The
Festival is always the third weekend of September This year on Friday the 15th
and Saturday the 16th. We set up on Thursday. There are “early bird”
classes on Thursday Afternoon. The doors are only open for those taking classes
at that time. Classes are listed at mississippigourd society.org. see festival
2017/
The
doors officially open Friday at 8 AM
and will be open until 5 PM. And on Saturday 8 AM until 5 PM.
If
there are classes with fewer students than planned for you may sign up for that
class at the festival. You must be there when the class starts.
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