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PICKENS - Travelers exploring the Table Rock Visitors Center Saturday also have a chance to explore the wide world of local art in Pickens County.
The Birchwood Center for Arts and Folk Life will hold their Third Annual Arts and Crafts Fair at the Visitors Center from 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. Saturday.
"We'll have dozens of artists and craftspeople, with all kinds of things, from quilting to jewelry, the whole gamut," said Dot Jackson, Birchwood Center Site Manager.
Admission to the fair is free and the public is encouraged to attend.
"We will welcome everyone with open arms," Jackson said. "Please come, please come."
The fair is a perfect example of the goals of the Birchwood Center's founders, Jackson said.
"That's part of our mission, to make life as good as we can, to encourage the arts and the craftsmen in every way that we possibly can," she said. "That's what we're about."
Other arts and crafts include a sketch artist and fine portrait artist, ornamental birds from paper maiche and jewelry made from old Coca-Cola cans.
"We'll have all kinds of inventive people there," Jackson said.
Artists will receive all the proceeds from sales, she said.
Attendees should bring cash or checks, as credit card acceptance will be limited.
Hungry customers and artists alike can enjoy plates of barbecue lunch on sale from The Parkette of Pickens' barbecue wagon.
"Our next big event is the Hope Nunnery concert Oct. 22," Jackson said. "Hope Nunnery is astounding."
Nunnery's sophisticated manner conceals "the most astonishing, gutsy, primitive old-style country singer voice," Jackson said.
"People who hear her are just astonished," she said.
The Grammy-nominated country singer's latest album is "Wilderness Lounge."
Jackson is looking forward to a play festival featuring the plays of Gary Neal Carden.
Carden wrote "The Prince of Dark Corners," a play about the life of Lewis Redmond, the outlaw known as Pickens County's Robin Hood.
The festival is scheduled for sometime in November.
For more information on the Arts and Crafts Fair or any other Birchwood Center events, call the Birchwood Center at 898-1418 or Linda Bowie at 878-9269.
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