Antiques Week In New Hampshire:

Expect Changes In 2012 Schedule

For those of you who attend the popular Antiques Week in New Hampshire and think you have the schedule down pat after years of attending, be ready for some changes in 2012. Things are going to be different.

The New Hampshire Antiques Show, sponsored by the New Hampshire Antiques Dealers Association, will remain the “rock”’ of the schedule, maintaining its Thursday through Saturday, August 9–11, dates at the Radisson Hotel in Manchester.

Nan Gurley’s Americana Celebration will also remain on schedule, opening on Tuesday, August 7, at the Deerfield Fairgrounds. Her show now becomes the first antiques show of the week.

Flamingo Eventz, who managed The Start of Manchester Antiques Show, postponed the 2011 show and has now bowed out completely from the week’s program.

Both show produced by Frank Gaglio’s Barn Star Productions, Mid*Week in Manchester and the Manchester Pickers Market Antiques Show, will still happen, but are moving out of town due to the sale of the building the show occupied for the past three years. Both shows, renamed the Mid*Week Antiques Show and the Pickers Market Antiques Show, will be staged in the Douglas N. Everett Arena in Concord, N.H., a 20-minute drive from Manchester. And the shows have been rescheduled for Mid*Week to open on Thursday, August 8, and run for two days, with the Pickers opening at the end of Antiques Week on Friday only.

Show manager Karen DiSaia of Old Lyme, Conn., will be bringing a new show to the week’s activities, a show yet to be named but to run Wednesday and Thursday, August 8–9, at the JFK Coliseum on maple Street in Manchester. “My show will not be as large as some of the others, but we are going to focus on quality,” Ms. DiSaia said.

Also unchanged is the opening event of Antiques Week, the three-day sale run by Ron Bourgeault of Northeast Auctions, set for Friday through Sunday, August 3–5 at the Radisson Hotel.

At this point, nothing is predicted to change. But should it happen, keep in step with www.antiquesandthearts.com.                    —RSS