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Velvet Mill

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This community arts center hosts a weekend farmers market (10am to 1pm Saturday, October to May) and an artisan/vendor market (10am to 4pm Saturday and Sunday, year-round), and is a hub for local artists, small businesses (including some locavore food vendors), and practitioners of yoga and other healing arts. Delicious discoveries include a brewer, a baker and wood-fired pizza maker.


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This antique merry-go-round has been in this location since 1883. It boasts a unique design: its horses are suspended on chains so that they really do …