Last May, I remembered the Garden Market Fair at Wilcox Park in the heart of Westerly. Only problem was, I remembered a week too late. Boy, was I mad! The year before, I happened upon it and I thought I'd landed in heaven. All around me were plants that I couldn't resist, many of them unusual. It seemed that every vendor had something that made me stop and dream, so I spent several hours wandering through it all. And it was a beautiful sunny and warm spring day.

I called Alan Peck, Wilcox Park Manager, just yesterday to see what the date was this year and he told me it was Sunday, May 18th from 10-4, rain or shine. He was also quick to mention that Wilcox Park has recently installed 34 newly crafted 'grand, elegant and historically accurate Wilcox Park Lampposts' made by the O'Brien Company of Rhode Island. They're probably the first thing you'll see when you arrive at the fair, being 22 feet tall.

Funny, the things you see when you look up.

Illustration courtesy of Alan Peck