3rd Annual Kerrytown BookFest

About the Kerrytown BookFest

The Kerrytown 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.

2004 was a great sophmore success, with over 100 exhibitors, dozens of presenters and demonstrators, and over 2500 visitors. You can see photos taken last year here. 2005 will be our 3rd annual festival, but our first as an independent 501(c)3 non-profit organization. Whether a business or an individual, if you'd like to join us and help us grow, please visit our new sponsors page.

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 BookFest Board and Committee members

Board members
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Gene Alloway
President
Motte & Bailey, Booksellers

Joan Knoertzer
Treasurer
Library Bed & Breakfast

Robin Agnew
Secretary
Aunt Agatha’s Mystery Book Shop

Kay Marsh
Community Member

Susan Ufferman
Community Member

Committee members
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Lynn Adelman
Volunteers Chair
Community Member

Irene Bushaw
Kerrytown District Association

Marilyn Churchill
Community member

Cindy Hollander
Hollander’s Book and Paper Arts

Tom Hollander
Hollander’s Book and Paper Arts

Sue Lloyd
Community Member

Heather O’Neal
Of Global Interest

Mary Ivers
Consulting accountant