An artisans market, a bake sale, an antique tractor and power equipment show, attic treasures, used books, and drawings for a quilt and gas grill make the Nov. 14 Fall Festival in Gowensville fun for all ages. The annual event is set from 8 – 2 p.m. at the community building on Highway 11 near the intersection with Highway 14.

Breakfast featuring biscuits and gravy is followed by a hot dog lunch. Some 12 vendors will sell their handcrafted or hand-produced specialties inside and on the grounds. Products celebrating Gowensville’s Dark Corner heritage will also be available.

The 2015 quilt, Pineapple Pizzazz, donated by Shirley Arledge of the Landrum Quilters, incorporates a vintage eighties top with exquisite machine quilting which was finished by fellow members including Sheridan Carter of SK Quilting in Hendersonville.

Vendors include the following: Appalachian Craftworks, handmade home decorations from reclaimed wood; Debbie Wilson, gourd art and accessories; June Rhoads, needle-, wet- and nuno-felted gifts; Joy Plumley and Sylvia Becknell, sewn and knitted goods; Lafoy and Jerry Henson, turned bowls and wood crafts; Landrum Quilters, handmade gifts – quilted, sewn and woven; Lori Jones, quilted purses, Christmas stockings and cotton dish clothes; Mike Merritt, barn tin and cedar bird houses; North Woods Farm, crocheted, woven and knitted hats, scarves, mitts and felted items.; Sherry Collins, barn bling, handmade jewelry, hummingbird feeders.; Southern Sentiments, handmade jewelry; Teresa Vanover, Christmas ornaments, wooden signs

Planned and carried out by residents of Gowensville, the festival is a time for neighbors to visit and to financially support the community center, built in 1922 as the Gowensville school. It closed in the mid 1950s and now serves as a place for birthday parties, family reunions, weddings and meetings of the Landrum Quilters, under the auspices of the Greater Gowensville Association.

-Submitted by Ellen Henderson