Yankee Art

Everybody applauds folk art; New Hampshire has done something about it. Last week its League of Arts & Crafts put on its eighth annual fair in the hockey rink at Dartmouth College, Hanover. Attendance: 20,000. Sales: $10,000. On exhibition: the work of 2,000 Yankee citizens--tatting, wood carving, pottery, linoleum block prints, ironwork, jewel cutting (semiprecious stones), pins made from pine cones, baskets, buckwheat flour, etc. Most of it was spare time work done in back-street shops or snowbound, lamplit New England farmhouses. To meet stiff League standards, artisans can take lessons from League teachers (50-c- a lesson). They sell their wares readily to tourists at 20 League stores throughout the State, keep 80% of the retail price. So successful is League financing that imitative movements have sprung up in many States.

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