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(From Page 17) Dancers performing at the festival include the Bay Shore Squares, prcsenting t line and square dancing; Garvin’s Irish Folk Dancers, demonstrating Irish Ceili dancing developed in agricultural Ireland; International, and Greek folk dancing. CRAFT SALES and demonstration have ■ been sponsored by groups suoj) as Joe and Jeanne Fahy of th(y;All Irish shop. Cape May, who wYll be selling Irish imports. Other ethnic and folk crafts to be represented are glass impressionism, shell designing, counted craft stitching, and Swedish straw decorations. Food booths have been reserved by Greek and Black groups. One will also feature Pennsylvania funnel cakes. Highlighting the craft show will be a sheep-to-shawl demonstration, in which a sheep, donated by 4-H member Lolly Rea, will be sheared and the wool spun by a r t i s t-i n - res i de n ce Jude Burkhauser. The Cape Atlantic Weaving and Needlework Guild has tentatively agreed to finish the spun fleece into a shawl to demonstrate the complete creative process. The Writer's Co-op will have a mime presentation with puppets

in the Junior Art League Puppet Theater during the afternoon ON EXHIBIT in the carriage house during the festivities, will be a collection of baskets from all parts of the world, on loan from Virginia Ewer of Cape May. Also on display will be watercolor paintings by Frances Johnson, Allendale, who has lived and studied in China and Japan. The pottery studio will be open for a ceramic demonstration. An 8 p.m. concert will feature five of the region’s leading ethnic and folk performers. Scheduled to appear are David Jones, British ballad and sea shanty singer; Bud and Olla Belle Reed, legendary old-time country music performers; Linda Goss, awardwinning African story teller; Jay Ansill, on the Irish harp and fiddle; and Jim Albertson, traditional folk singer and story teller and president of the New Jersey Folklore Society from 1980 to 1982. The festival will run from noon till six p.m. The fair is free; a $3 admission charge to the evening concert will go toward the continued restoration and maintenance of the Physick Estate. The rain site for the festival is the Franklin Street Civic Center between Franklin and Lafayette streets

Christmas Lasts

(From Page 171 In Sweden, said von Schlicten, "Christmas is bigger than in any other country.” In a country of only four hours of daylight in winter months, the bright lights of Christmas, as well as the snow of the season, are a welcome sight. “We dance around the tree,” said von Schlicten, “and say 'Christmas will last us into Easter.’ ” . She lovingly pointed out the trolls and “tomtar,” Christmas men, sprinkled about her shop The “tomtar,” the Swedes believe, live under the houses and keep watch over the family. The trolls do the same except, according to von Schlicten, "They're a little more vicious. They live under the rocks in the woods. " ON CHRISTMAS EVE, a large bowl of rice pudding is left for the friendly "tomtar,” as a gift. Just like Santa and his milk & cookies, von Schlicten said, the bowl was always clean in the morning and "there were no footprints." "1 didn’t mean to stay with Christmas," she said, gesturing at the green and red around her, "but here it is and there it is." The decorations of straw that she will be making at the festival originated on the farms at harvest time “They never throw anything away,” she said. Straw decorations in her shop have been twisted into candy canes, wreaths, and even a goat, a remnant of home that is not for sale. The straw also had a religious significance. "It's the straw in the manger where Christ was born,” von Schlicten explained. ALSO ON DISPLAY are Laplander hats, (“the richer they are the bigger the tassel"), kit-

chen witches (or angels, if you prefer, “so that your don’t burn your food”), and many other wooden figures candle holders, wall hangings, all made in Sweden. The tradition behind the object is not always remembered said von Schlicten. “Some people making these things today don’t even know why they’re doing it,” she said. Contrary to what is often the case, von Schlicten said that the young Swedes do care about tradition. “More and more they begin to love the old things.” She is often beset by homesick Swedes, who, upon discovering her shop, bring all their friends all leaving with a talisman from ‘home." THIS IS THE THIRD YEAR of the Swedish inhabitance at Cape Island Mall, and so far, the trolls have protected von Schlicten, and kept her business thriving. At one point, though, she did Question that. A few years ago, the ocean stood three feet high inside the shops on Beach drive Von Schlicten commented, "When the ocean comes in, 1 get out. No trolls can protect me then.”

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