
The vendors at this tent are Corrine and Gabby Gossage and Karen Anderson, they all reside in Vandergrift, PA. Corrine started in the business of making soap a couple years ago. She has help from her daughter Gabby and mother Karen who are typically at the market with her. She saw soap making online and decided she wanted to give it a try, with a push from her sister who encouraged her to try it and then to market herself by selling at farmers' markets. Corrine says she "likes the old ways, likes to keep the art alive." And that's what she does with her soaps. She has had her hand in all sort of "old ways" of life like spinning, canning, crocheting, and candle making, with soap making being her most recent endeavor. She says, "We lose so much of our history already so I like to keep a little bit of it alive."

As well as selling at the Indiana County Farmers' Market on Saturdays, they sell in Vandergrift at their farm market on Thursday and in Export on Tuesday. They will also be featured at the Northern Appalachian Folk Festival this September, to be held in downtown Indiana the weekend of September 5th.
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