meandering minds…

Yes, there was another fair this past Saturday – for the Wyannie Malone Museum. Rudi will eventually volunteer there, historian that he is. Wyannie Malone is the Loyalist woman who took off with her children from the US, loyal to the crown (and fleeing those wild revolutionaries) and settled our wee cay. Her descendants are here to this day.

There were crafts people, artists, funnel cakes and more. You may one day see our antique glass fishing net ball, a lovely turquoise, that we bought from an Albury from Man O’War.. or our Bahamian-made straw tote that we filled with rolls of beach towels. And here are some of the goodies being sold at the fair (okay, one vendor’s cool stuff):

I bought one of the cloth necklaces. They were very cute, great colours. And then I saw the purses. I hate purses, but Kelsey would have gone crazy for them. A yellow:

And another, in pinks:

And aquas:

The best part of our day was meeting Kim Rody, and enjoying her art. Rudi found a huge and wonderful piece, an original, of her dad, George, winning at bingo at Capt. Jack’s, lighthouse in the background. He took a quick look and pronounced the price very fair, and told Kim he wanted that painting.

She was surprised, and asked – really??

I picked up on her level of surprise. I asked Rudi to check the price again, to see if he’d missed a decimal point. He had.
But he still loved the painting, and asked if he could buy it on layaway. Kim said he can do that, but that the original now will hang at Capt. Jack’s, and that we can have a giclee print in any size we’d like.

We’ll see how that plays out. There’s another art show at the Abaco Inn on Saturday, and we have a few bare walls (though with an open-concept home, there aren’t many). And so we bought a giclee print of this piece, the original being six feet long and hanging in the Hope Town Harbour Lodge. It is a view of the harbour, but painted from the vantage point of the top of the lighthouse. Most Hope Town scenes include the lighthouse, so this is 180-degrees different. And it now hangs in our entry, a colourful welcome to our home.