Among the Tables
Candy is the one with the black cowgirl hat.
There's no question that it's the biggest in Arizona. I have no reason to doubt them. Candy and I have gone for the last three years and it's gotten bigger and bigger ... well, at least more crowded every year.
This year we were a little disappointed. Given the increase in the number of people attending, we would hope they would spread the show out a little more. Unfortunately, that wasn't the case. The result was more people pressed into the same space. We found it hard to see the stuff for sale and, if you got close enough to one display to actually look, you got pushed and shoved by others trying to do the same.
I guess the other disappointment is that we simply can't seem to keep up with the prices. The first year we went I though we could maybe spend $50 for something "nice" only to find that anything "nice" had a $100 price tag. This year I went with the thought that we might spend $100 for something "nice" only to find that the going rate for "nice" is now $250 or $300. The up-side is that going to the show only cost us the entry fee; eight bucks a head.
Maybe the real problem is that, the longer we're here, the better we understand what we're looking at.
The Arizona State Museum (adjacent to the show and a show sponsor) was nice though ... great exhibit of photographs of Mission San Xavier de Bac, it's history and restoration as well as a photo essay on Indian chapels taken in the early 1990s.
There was also an exhibit of the Mexican mask tradition along with a little personal epiphany ... I finally made the tie in between the mask tradition and Mexican wrestling!! (Only to be informed by Candy that she's recently seen a TV presentation on the subject. I must have been vacationing on my other planet that day.)
Desert Little Bear - museum consultant,
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