Sports cards and collectibles shows scheduled locally
Source: Portsmouth Herald News (Original Article)
As two readers so kindly pointed out last week, we haven’t done a sports cards and memorabilia hobby roundup in these pages for a while. With summer fast approaching and a bunch of local card shows on tap, now seems like the perfect time to do so.
Summer is always a great time for feeding your inner child, spending a little money and expanding your and/or your kids’ collections.
The ballparks around New England, including MerchantsAuto.com Stadium (the tedious name for the New Hampshire Fisher Cats’ home field) in Manchester and Hadlock Field in Portland, Maine, are open for business, not to mention Fenway Park in Boston. There are also plenty of cards and collectibles shows on tap that are close enough where you won’t need to cut into Junior’s college fund to pay for the gas.
First off, there is a card show in Rochester at the Elks Lodge on Sunday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Admission is only a buck, so you just can’t go wrong there. And who doesn’t enjoy a leisurely drive to the Lilac City?
On Sunday, June 8, Chris Morse of Chris’s Cards and Comics in Seabrook fame is hosting a show at the Galley Hatch Conference Center at the Best Western: The Inn At Hampton (nice place, but could we cut down on the name?) on Route 1 in Hampton.
The show is from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., and admission for big kids is $3 (kids 12 and under are admitted for free). Log on to Morse’s new Web site at www.chriscardscomics.com for more info.
As if two upcoming Seacoast shows weren’t enough, there is a third one planned. Yep, it’s like Christmas in June if you collect sports stuff.
Seacoast show promoters Ken Kelley and Bill Harless are doing quite well with their new monthly show in Dover since relocating it a few months ago from Epping. The next one is set for Sunday, June 22 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Dover Elks Lodge on Route 108. Hmm, there’s just something about Elks Lodges and card shows, I guess. LAZYTOWN dvd Whatever works.
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