Gainesville Downtown Festival and Art Show

The Writers Alliance participated in the 2015 Gainesville Downtown Festival and Art Show. For two beautiful fall days, WAG members manned WAG’s booth on a prime corner in front of the Hippodrome to sell each others’ books. The festival was huge, covering blocks and blocks of displays selling the works of over 240 artists to probably 100,000 attendees.

Sunday afternoon, member George Huber demonstrated his skill as a carnival barker and former WAG president Art Crummer played his guitar and sang, attracting passers-by to WAG’s display. Dozens of festival-goers stopped to learn about WAG and took flyers, bookmarks, and handouts home for future reference. Thirty-six books, priced at special festival prices by WAG authors to facilitate making change, were sold at the festival.