City Market on the Green is YOUR place to buy quality products whether it is produce, handmade soaps, delicious baked goods handcrafted pens or other skillfully crafted goods. You will always find a relaxed and friendly atmosphere where the vendors take pride in pleasing you. We know that without visitors there is no market.
We aim to provide educational activities as well as some of the best entertainment in our local area. Recent entertainment has included steel bands, violinists, bagpipers and dancers. We have had demonstrations in pottery making, blacksmithing, crocheting, yarn spinning and pen making on wood lathes.
Plenty of seating and shade is available on Poplar Street so grab the children, your spouse or a friend and come down to see what The City Market on the Green is all about. The market is open every Saturday from 9am to 1pm on Poplar Street between Third Street and Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd. We look forward to seeing you at the City Market on the Green.
George is participating in the City Market for his second year and brings his portable forge and anvil to Poplar Street every third
Saturday. He demonstrates basic blacksmithing techniques on a coal forge and has items for sale that include key rings, plant
hangers, all kinds of hooks, and just a lot of other useful household items. He also brings examples of other more involved
work such as fireplace screens and tools, ornately decorated wooden chests, and botanically themed sculptures. He also will
take orders from people that he meets at the market, complete them in his shop in Bolingbroke, and return with them for delivery the
following month at the market. He is currently working on a set of fireplace tongs and some giant plant hooks that allow you
to hang plants directly from tree branches. He is also repairing some old collectable implements that have been brought down
to the market for repair.
George began studying the craft of blacksmithing eight years ago following his retirement from a 23-year
career in the U.S. Coast Guard. He is a native Maconite and resides in Bolingbroke with Susan, his wife of 34 years. Susan,
by the way, is an expert broom tier and completes all of the fireplace brooms after George hammers out the metal handles. She
also has been known to tie brooms on deer antlers and all manner of interesting branches that she collects in the woods. Both
George and Susan learned their crafts at the John C. Campbell folk school in Brasstown, NC.
Stop by the City Market on the Green, meet George and Susan and see the wonderful handcrafted items he has crafted. You will not be disappointed.