North Carolina Gourd Arts & Crafts Festival September 13, 2009

Promoted by the country's oldest gourd society, the annual North Carolina Gourd Arts & Crafts Festival features more than 80 growing, crafting, and artistic competitive categories, as well as workshops and vendors of gourd crafts, dried gourds, and gourd crafting supplies. This event features arts and craft and gourd vendor displays offering sales of gourds, gourd craft and gourd art and has a free hands-on ground crafting table for children as well as many gourd-u-cation stations and displays of historic and cultural use of gourds.