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The Kerrytown District BookFest is an event celebrating those who create books and those who read them. The primary goal is to highlight our area’s rich heritage in the book and printing arts while showcasing our local and regional individuals, businesses, and organizations. The day will be filled with entertainment, education, and hands-on experience.

2003 was a great first effort success, with over 60 exhibitors, dozens of presenters and demonstrators, and over 2000 visitors. You can see photos taken last year here.

We feature authors, storytellers, publishers bookbinders, book artists, book illustrators, poets, letterpress printers, wood engravers, calligraphers, papermakers, librarians, teachers, publishers, new, used, and antiquarian booksellers and many others associated with books and their diverse forms, structure, and content. Our children's area is always popular as well

We always strive to create a colorful mix of book related activities and showcase them all in one location. Visitors can watch bookbinders demonstrate how to bind books and do simple repairs, see papermakers make wonderful kinds of paper, and see book artists create marbled colors on paper, or make an entirely new piece of art from a book. There are even opportunitites to print with your own hands commemorative bookmarks or poems from local poets with antique letterpress printing machines.

Please join us each fall for a wonderful day of speakers, education, and activities and join our rich and varied community of people who love the book and book arts.

Kerrytown District BookFest Planning Committee

Robin Agnew - co-owner, Aunt Agathas
Gene Alloway - co-owner, Motte & Bailey Booksellers
Irene Bushaw - Executive Director, Kerrytown District Association
Karen Farmer - manager, Kerrytown Market & Shops
Cindy Hollander - co-owner, Hollander's Decorative Papers
Tom Hollander - co-owner,Hollander's Decorative Papers
Joan Knoertzer - owner, Library Bed & Breakfast
Sue Lloyd - Library Media Specialist