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Day: May 9, 2018

Thrift Stores and Farmers Markets

Posted on May 9, 2018May 10, 2018 By Tom 1 Comment on Thrift Stores and Farmers Markets
Photography, Rambling, Washington Sabbatical

Bellingham Farmers Market-021

I miss a good, old-fashioned Southern flea market, the kind where you can find anything from fishing lures to knives to rusty tools to outdated medicines to questionable Confederate adoration. There’s just nothing like that up here. The western term is “swap meet”, but I haven’t even been able to find one of those. At least in this corner of the state swap meets are infrequent and are nothing like those in the South. I was eager to find some alternative.

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