Tourism office offering seasonal gifts
WAYNESBURG – Just in time for Christmas, postcards and notecards depicting seasonal watercolor portraits of Greene County scenes are available from the Greene County Tourist Promotion Agency.
The cards feature four portraits of Greene County locations – the Christmas tree in front of the Greene County Courthouse, a family enjoying the springtime Enlow Fork Wildflower Walk, the festive Greene County Fair in summer and Greene County Museum surrounded by fall foliage. The four paintings are the original work of local artist Leslie Fehling of Prosperity. The cards were produced through Design & Copy Center and Rhodes & Hammers Printing, both of Waynesburg.
Postcards are 50 cents each, or 30 cents each when 10 or more are bought. Notecards are sold as a boxed set of 12 with envelopes and a pen for $15, or are available for $2 apiece.
In addition to the new cards, the tourism office continues to sell Christmas cards, ceramic mugs, puzzles and other Greene County gift items. Introduced last winter, the Christmas cards also feature the watercolor work of Fehling, who painted snow-covered scenes of the courthouse, the Carmichaels Covered Bridge and Route 188 in Jefferson, as well as a collage of winter pictures. A boxed set of 20 cards with envelopes and a pen costs $20.
The white ceramic tumbler mugs feature four separate photos of county locations – the illuminated Christmas tree in front of the courthouse, the snow-covered Carmichaels Covered Bridge, the White Covered Bridge with fall foliage and a Rain Day banner and flowers in front of the courthouse. Each full-color photo is paired with one of Tourism’s seasonal logos. White silicone lids are included. Prices are $15 for one mug, $25 for any two or $50 for the set of four.
The series of covered bridge puzzles includes photos of Carmichaels, Cox Farm, King, Neddie Woods, Scott and Shriver bridges. The White Covered Bridge puzzle is currently sold out, although a second edition is in the works for early 2014. Puzzles are $20 each, or $80 for a set of six.
The tourism office also has a select number of copies of the Greenopoly board game and the books “A Village Called Brave” by Jim Hoy, “All Quiet on the Border” by D. Kent Fonner and “Greene from the Blue” by Jerry Hardy.
All gift items are available for sale in the tourism office, located at 19 S. Washington St. in Waynesburg. Gift bags and wrapping are available for any gifts. The tourism office is open from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday, although the office will be closed Dec. 24, Dec. 25 and Jan. 1.
For more information, call the tourism office at 724-627-8687, or visit www.GoGreeneCounty.org.