Article: At the Harvard Square Holiday Crafts Fair another era lives on in handmade wares and funky arts

CAMBRIDGE-- The 11th-hour shoppers come not in search of Tickle Me Elmo or Nintendo 64. Instead, they eagerly pick their way among organically grown flower wreaths and hand-dyed pullovers. The Harvard Square Holiday Crafts Fair, which runs through Christmas Eve, is absolutely, positively and definitely the final holiday crafts fair of them all, the last gasp of an omnipresent genre that ranges from the unmistakably upscale to the decidedly downscale.

This one would be called . . . well, "funky" is the word that comes to mind. It is quintessential Harvard Square, especially if you remember Harvard Square before it was transformed into a shopping mall. It is clocks made out of Table Talk pie ...

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