Antique Festival this weekend in Clinton
Annual event expected to draw huge crowds to downtown
Judy Smith of Clinton takes a funnel cake from Paula Hinckley of Powell from the Rainbo Ice and Funnel cakes booth at the 2024 Clinch River Spring Antique Festival in downtown Clinton. Looking on is Greg Powell. (photo:G. Chambers Williams III )
Hours for the event will be noon-6 p.m. on Friday (May 2) and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday.
Market Street will be lined with street vendors and food trucks, and there will be a variety of activities, along with specials in the 15 downtown antique stores.
Sponsored by the Historic Downtown Clinton Merchants Association, there is no admission charge for the festival.
Plenty of free parking is available in the city parking lot on Commerce Street and the new city lot at Main and North Hicks streets.
The vendors will be set up along Market Street rain or shine.
“There’s so much to experience at The Clinch River Antique Festival,” the festival’s Facebook notice says. “From restored 1800s colonial pottery to antique furniture to one-of-a-kind artists, there’s something for everyone.”
Antique dealers and artisans will be attending the event from Colorado, Indiana, Virginia, South Carolina and more, organizers said.
Each year for the past two decades, the spring Antique Festival has been held to kick off the summer selling season for the downtown stores, and brings thousands of visitors – most of them from out of town – to Historic Downtown Clinton.
“Nobody does antiques quite like Clinton; just ask Martha Stewart!” says a post on the Historic Downtown Clinton website.
