Sweet stuff at Sugarloaf Festival

To enthusiasts of contemporary crafts and fine arts, “Sugarloaf Mountain Works,” sponsor of the Sugarloaf Crafts Festival at the Timonium Fairgrounds this weekend, is sweet music to the ears. Founded in 1975 by Deann and George Verdier, the original concept of the festival was to provide a low overhead marketplace where artists and craftspeople could sell their unique creations to the public.

Since the first show in the spring of 1976, with more than 10,000 people in attendance, the celebration has been moving full speed ahead. Industry publications that rank the popularity of arts and crafts festivals regularly place Sugarloaf in the Top 100 and often in the Top 10 in the United States.