It was a long day yesterday–Alex and I, after going to the safety parade, went to the Delmont Apple and Arts Festival in Delmont, PA. There was cider(!), a tractor pull, apples for sale, crafts and an antique farm equipment show.

One of the most disturbing things we saw at the show was the proliferation of manufactured crafts. Almost all of them had UPC tags that said “Made in China”. Even crafts without the tags were assembled from manufactured pieces. The closest we came to handmade were some wood crafts made on a laser cutter. Not exactly a craft per-se, if you just load the software and watch a machine cut.

The whole thing was a fun time, but it left us wondering: “Doesn’t anybody make anything by hand anymore?”