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Arts and crafts show sprouts this weekend at park
By JORGE SANCHEZ
© St. Petersburg Times, HOMOSASSA -- The cool fall weather expected this weekend should make a perfect backdrop for the Homosassa Springs Wildlife State Park arts and crafts show. The show, now in its seventh season, will be from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday at the park's Visitors Center grounds, on U.S. 19 and Halls River Road. Works from 65 artists, covering fine art and crafts, will be on exhibit. "This is an excellent opportunity to buy holiday gifts and home decorations," said Marla Ivory, who is coordinating the festival. Ivory said this year's lineup of exhibitors was selected by a jury process. "That means we were able to sift through lots of entries and come up with the best of the best," she said. Food vendors will include Charlie Brown's Crab House, which will soon open a new seafood restaurant at the Visitors Center in addition to the restaurant at Homosassa Riverside Resort. Chef Charlie Brown will offer a "Seafood Delight" outdoors menu. Other concession stands will offer hot dogs, hamburgers and sodas. Admission is free, and the Visitors Center offers a gift shop, jewelry store and a manatee education area. The outdoor Whaling Wall painted by environmental artist Wyland last year can also be seen. Parking will be available at the Visitors Center, but since the lot has to accommodate the crafters, it will fill quickly. Other parking sites are at the west entrance of the Homosassa Springs Wildlife State Park on Fishbowl Drive and at the grass field on U.S. 19 and Yullee Drive. Shuttle buses will take people from these lots to the festival site. Ivory said that park attendance is usually light both days. "So it would be a good idea to make a day of it and visit the park as well," she said. The park has many species of native plants and animals, an alligator lagoon, cougars, bears, manatee exhibits and an underwater fishbowl observatory. Adult admission is $7.95. Call 628-5343.
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