Butchers Hill

Butchers Hill Spring Flea Market and Craft Fair
Saturday, May 9
9:00 AM to 3:00 pm

The Butchers Hill Spring Flea Market and Craft Fair will be held on Saturday, May 9, 2009 from 9:00 AM until 3:00 PM. Vendors can offer flea market items and/or craft and creative works for sale. The rain date is Saturday, May 16th. Below you will find lots of information about the event. Please read it all carefully. We hope that you'll join us either by selling fleas, crafts, shopping or just kicking back for a day of fun. The Butchers Hill Association will offer food and beverages for sale. There will be music and some activities for the kids. Mark your calendar now! Click here for a PDF file of this information.

Registration

Spaces are $25 each. You can pay by cash, check or Money Order. Make the check or Money Order payable to the Butchers Hill Association. Please include your name, address, phone number and e-mail address (if you have one) on the envelope. If you have a space preference, please indicate that. We will try to accommodate you, but no promises can be made. All spaces must be paid for in advance - no exceptions. Cut-off date for registration is May 2. If spaces remain available after May 2 the cost increases to $30 on a first-come, first-serve basis. Spaces are non refundable.
Please mail your registration fee to the address below. There is no mail slot.
Barry Glassman
2002 E. Pratt St.
Baltimore, MD 21231
Once your $25 is received, you will receive, via U.S. mail or e-mail, a Vendor's Receipt which you must bring with you on the day of the event. If you have an e-mail address, please be sure to include it with your check.

General Information:

No One can be guaranteed "last year's" space or any other space. We'll do our best to accommodate you if you have special needs, but no promises can be made.
Vendors must use the Luzerne and Baltimore Street entrance to Patterson Park. Someone will be on-hand to verify your Vendor Number and direct you to your assigned space. Traffic will wind through the park in order to promote a one-way traffic pattern. Please be aware that there are many people utilizing the park on a Saturday morning - do not exceed 10 miles per hour.
Vendors need to present their receipt when entering the park. The numbered slip only allows you to bring your vehicle into the park for set-up and tear-down - It is not a parking permit. You will be ticketed & towed if not removed from the park by 9:00 AM.
Set-up begins at 7:00 am. You will be allowed to drive back into the park AFTER 3:00 pm in order to re-load your vehicle.

Goodwill Industries will be on-hand at 3 PM to collect up any unwanted items. Please re-pack items into boxes/bags. Remember. The Goodwill truck will be parked at the exit, please take your items and drop off as you leave the park. Some of the items that Goodwill will not accept are: All furniture indoor and outdoor -(due to size of truck), fish tanks, and curtain rods, children's car seats. You might want to check their website for a list of other items that they do not accept.

Trash receptacles are for trash only, not for unsold items. Please help us take good care of Patterson Park.

Coffee, tea, soda, water, muffins and fruit are available beginning at 7 AM at the food booth at the White House.

Back by popular demand, delivery of coffee, muffins, and fruit via a rolling cart on the main road beginning at 7:30 AM. Delivery of soda, water and snacks in the afternoon beginning at 1:30 PM

Back by popular demand, you can call in your LUNCH food order (any time after 10:30 AM) and it will be delivered to your site. Phone Number will be provided with your check in information day of the flea market.
Spaces are approximately 15 feet square. Tables are not provided, but you are welcome to bring your own.
Rain date is Saturday, May 16th. If rain is in the forecast and you are unsure what to do, monitor www.butchershill.org, www.pattersonpark.com or look for a sign in the park. We will also put out a blast email. Please do not call.
Vendors are prohibited from selling food either for on-site consumption or take-home food, like baked goods due to city permit regulations.
Suggestion: Bring plenty of coins, one and five dollar bills with you so that you can provide change to your buyers. You may also want to bring bags.
Please take your trash with you as you leave the park at the end of the day. If you smoke, please clean up after yourself.

If you still have questions after reading all of the information above, you may inquire at bhfleamarket@yahoo.com or by calling Barry Glassman at 410-558-1080. We prefer that you use the e-mail address if possible.

Announcing

The Johns Hopkins Historical Mural Project

The Butchers Hill Association Mural Committee is pleased to announce the final design of the Johns Hopkins Historical Mural, which will honor individuals who have played an important role in the history of nursing, medicine, and public health, and which will reflect the values of our diverse neighborhood.

Based on input from local residents, students and staff, the following key historical figures that together span the diverse history of Johns Hopkins were selected for inclusion in the mural: Vivien Thomas, the surgical technician who pioneered pediatric cardiac surgery. Mary Elizabeth Garrett, a founding benefactor who stipulated that the Hopkins medical school admit women on an equal basis as men; Isabel Robb, an early leader of the Hopkins School of Nursing and a founder of nursing theory; Anna Baetjer, a pioneer in occupational health and environmental toxicology; Abel Wolman, the Baltimore sanitary engineer who pioneered safe drinking water; and Henrietta Lacks, a local resident treated at the Johns Hopkins Hospital whose cancer cells controversially live on today in countless research labs, informing important medical research, including the historical development of polio vaccine.

Butchers Hill Association is once again pleased to be partnering with Murals of Baltimore — the local artists behind our successful Betsy Patterson Mural Project — to depict these key historical figures in a timeless mural that is both interpretative and inspiring. To be located adjacent to Castle Street Park at 2031 E. Fairmount, this mural will be visible from the new Johns Hopkins Hospital and the new Washington Hill Gateway development.

Butchers Hill Association is seeking financial partners to help begin this project this summer. Major donations in the amount of $1,000 to $10,000 will help towards the $35,000 cost of this project, and will permit completion before the end of the year. Donors will be honored on a banner displayed prominently at the site, in our neighborhood newsletter, and at a dedication ceremony. Butchers Hill Association is a 501(c)(3) exempt organization.