Hi Y'all,
The Hunt Co. Fair in Greenville, Texas, runs June 9-17 this year. The Hunt County Woodturners are again making Freedom Pens every day, set up at our usual spot outside the Creative Arts Building. We are there weekdays 4-10 p.m. and weekends noon-10 p.m. Today was our first day. We have 53 pens turned so far, and that was only for the first shift (3 hours).
We received a couple nice donations recently to enable us to purchase more pen kits. We are hoping to turn 400 pens during the 10-day run of the fair. Today we received a lot of attention and explained the FPP to several folks who stopped by our tent, even though it was about 100 degrees all afternoon. We may even have a new member for our club.
If any of you turners in the NE Texas area can come help turn pens, we will be glad to have you. This is a very worthwhile project. Our club supports the FPP project and we will keep turning pens until we run out of kits!
Art Hendrix