Metrolina Expo : Statesville, NC : November 2010

This is the biggest country fried flea market you will ever see in your life. It's here where the Yankee Peddler first met Colonel Littleton. If you need a beat up coke bottle from 1947, this is your place. (I actually saw one vendor selling used lip balm...)


But it also attracts a good number of very accomplished artists and craftsmen. Working with reclaimed materials, wood, stamped metal, found objects and the like, many of their wares are quite beautiful. I bought a broken fridge from 1952 that someone had painted red. It's pretty much the only place on the planet where this type of transaction could have taken place.