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• For more information about obtaining a vendor booth, contact Martha Crossen at mcrossen@riverwools.com or 812-238-0090.
• For more information about the event, call Chris Pfaff at 812-237-2536 or visit www.downtownterrehaute.org or the group’s Facebook page, Downtown Terre Haute Block Party.

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• Party site: Wabash Avenue will be the site of The 2011 Downtown Block Party on Saturday, Aug. 27.

  

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July 25, 2011

Wabash to get its party on

Aug. 27 event will occupy 5 blocks of the downtown street

Brian Boyce The Tribune-Star The Tribune Star Tue Jul 26, 2011, 10:06 AM EDT

TERRE HAUTE — Plans are under way to pack the streets with party people next month, and there’s still room to join.

Downtown Terre Haute Inc. will host a 12-hour, five-block extravaganza Aug. 27 aptly named The 2011 Downtown Block Party. More than 100 spaces will be dedicated to art and craft vendors, in addition to live music and food.

“There will be quite a few things going on,” Downtown Terre Haute Inc. President Chris Pfaff said of what he expects to be the largest downtown event in recent years. “We certainly believe this will be one of the biggest events in downtown Terre Haute and it definitely has a downtown merchant focus to it.”

Wabash Avenue will be closed off between Fourth and Ninth streets, with local businesses participating throughout the area.



Classes begin at Indiana State University that week, and Pfaff said the Saturday event is hoped to make a strong first impression on the students.

Meanwhile, artists and crafters are already lining up to participate.

Martha Crossen of River Wools said local and regional artists, as well as those from Indianapolis, St. Louis and Louisville are planning to come.

“We’re primarily looking for art vendors, people who do their own original work,” she said, naming jewelers, potters and weavers that are on the list. Non-profits and other community groups are also welcome. “We have a wide variety coming already.”

Vendors from the Downtown Terre Haute Farmers Market are also planning to bring some of their produce up the street from earlier in the day, she said.

Pfaff said the event will kick off with a parade at 1 p.m. Live music will play through 1 a.m.

Union Hospital, title sponsor for the event, will conduct a health fair in the parking lot of the Vigo County School Corporation, and First Financial Bank plans to sponsor a car show, he said.

“One of the other exciting things is the Wells Fargo stage coach is planning to be here,” he said of the parade participants.

The block party is essentially a re-engineered street fair that organizers hope will be larger with more participation, he said. The same elements will be there from street fairs past, but this event will encompass some five blocks and involve the surrounding businesses, he explained.

Non-profits and other community organizations are welcome to participate, but Pfaff said signing up should be done this week as plans are beginning to solidify.

The group has launched a Facebook page titled “Downtown Terre Haute Block Party,” and more information is available at www.downtownterrehaute.org.

Brian Boyce can be reached at 812-231-4253 or brian.boyce@tribstar.com.

 

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