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COMFORT INVITES VISITORS TO CELEBRATE THE SEASON
AT SPRING TRADE DAY AND MUSIC FEST
SATURDAY, APRIL 5

U.S. National Irish Storytelling Champion, Chuck Wagon Cooking
Demonstration Highlight Family Activities

Comfort, Texas …The town of Comfort invites visitors to celebrate spring at the annual Spring Trade Day and Music Fest on Saturday, April 5. The event combines fun family activities with country gospel music and spring shopping.

Spring Trade Day will be held from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Comfort Park on Texas Highway 27, off of IH-10. 

Irish storytelling by Jane McDaniel, who has held the U.S. National Irish Storytelling Championship since 2004, highlights the family activities. McDaniel has been telling stories since she was eight years old. Her tales come from the ancient, epic tellings of the Celtic culture and from her own experiences growing up in the 1950s as well as from tales of wonder and change from all over the world. Her focus is on building a bridge between the old and the new. Her performance is at 1 p.m.

Other family activities include face painting by artist Nancy McGalliard, fun photos with spring-themed cut-outs, a petting zoo, book walk, toy walk and piñata games. Reflecting the rural heritage of the town, Spring Trade Day also will include a goat demonstration by Cindy Young of Boot Hill Farms, a horseshoe throwing contest, a display of antique tractors and a chuck wagon cooking demonstration by Ranch 22.

Spring Trade Day is ideal for spring shopping. It includes a selection of arts and crafts, sand crosses, bird houses, wood crafts, folk art, plants and garden accessories. Also featured will be antiques and vintage items, food items, seasonal décor, home décor, adult and children’s clothing, jewelry, purses, and travel bags.

The ongoing Music Fest will feature singers and bands from the surrounding area. Visitors are invited to bring their lawn chairs or blankets to enjoy the music sitting on the lawn around the gazebo in Comfort Park . Barbecue and beverages will be available for purchase. 

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Spring Trade Day also includes book signings by several area authors, including:

* Mae Durden Nelson, author of I Just Called Her Momma, the story of her family life, Son of Defiance, historical fiction based on the facts of Comfort’s Treue der Union monument, plus the sequel, Genesis, and her newest book, Four Boys, Two Canoes, and The Guadalupe River, a true day-by-day account, with maps, of the 1971 adventures of four Comfort Boys. 
* Tommy Titsworth, Sr., author of Early Comfort, Texas Cabinetmakers: A History of Hill Country Furniture. Furniture pictured is in local homes. Tommy and his wife, Silvia, started the popular antique shows put on by Texas Presentations in Comfort, Boerne & Fredericksburg. 
* M. Bradley Davis, author of books for youth, Tunnel of Dreams, The Hand in the Mirror, The Canopus Conundrum, A Spark of Magic, and The Enchanted Rapiers.
* Anne & Mike Stewart, authors of Comfort Women in Comfort History, Texas in the Civil War: The Story of Comfort’s Monument, and The Farm Cookbook.

Admission to Spring Trade Day and Music Fest is free. There are nominal charges for some of the children’s activities. In addition to shopping at Spring Trade Day, visitors to Comfort also can shop at merchants in the downtown historic district, the Highway 87 shopping district and the shops along Highway 27. 

Comfort is a great place to spend the weekend. Comfort has accommodations to meet the needs of almost any traveler from cabins in the country, to lavishly decorated Victorian era mansions and picturesque creek side and river side lodging. The town is an easy drive from San Antonio and Austin.

For more information please phone the Comfort Chamber of Commerce: 830-995-3131.

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