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About the Village
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Some people say American crafts and crafts people are
disappearing -- that their exquisite and practical products are a lost art.
They haven't been to the Webatuck Craft Village...
Here, clustered along the picturesque Ten Mile River (a stream which once turned the paddle wheels of small local factories) is an entire community of artisans who still ply their crafts as if it were an art--as indeed it is.
To stroll among the more than half-a-dozen Webatuck Craft Village buildings (some dating back to the 18th Century), is to truly wander into the past.
Not a "recreated" past like that of Williamsburg, Virginia -- but a past that has never gone
away -- a past that maintains American arts ands crafts in the same tradition and with the same heritage that has
echoed in these ancient buildings for generations.
If you've never seen glass blown, pottery
thrown, or copper, tin and wood fashioned into a
chandelier -- then the Webatuck Craft Village is a great place to spend the day.
At the Webatuck Craft Village, history hasn't disappeared --
because it never left. |
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