As this year continues to just fly by, my calendar tells me that May 19-20 are significant for a variety of reasons--the weekend brings both the NATO summit to Chicago and it is the antique flea market opening season in Elkhorn Wisconsin.
This blog will always be a "politics free zone" so I will not comment on the summit. But I will urge you to jump in your car--and come to the nicest antiques event in the midwest. The Walworth County Fairgrounds hosts this market four times a year--and we think the first is always the biggest and the best.
More than 600 dealers--in and outside--selling all manor of vintage treasure. We will be in the North Hall--firmly in a covered space, concrete floor and next to good restrooms and the grilled brat seller. Yeah we have heard that many customers never make it into the buildings--but we beg to differ. Of the 10,000 folks who go through in a weekend--we get a large part of that--and enjoy doing the show.
So--if transportation nightmares are not your style and personal safety is a priority, make the journey to Elkhorn Wisconsin instead.. Early buying starts at 1pm Saturday for a premium admisssion and Sunday starts at 7am till 3pm for five bucks. Grab yourself a spring perennial, a bunch of home grown asparagas and rhubarb, a Lion's Club brat or a Future Farmer's of America breakfast sandwich, wander on good footpaths and under mature trees and peruse stall upon stall upon STALL of vintage and antiques treasure--and leave the craziness to downtown Chicago.
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