54th Annual Boonesborough Days Festival
The 54th Annual Boonesborough Days will be held on Saturday, Sept. 6, 2025 from 9am to 5pm and Sunday, Sept. 7, 2025 – 9am to 4pm.
The festival is devoted to history and handmade crafts and art. Each vendor must make their items 100% by hand. Vendors must also be at the festival both days.
Read our Vendors Rules to learn more about being a vendor
To see the cost for each type of booth, click on the Application button that is appropriate to you below.
Application Deadlines
Vendor applications for the 2025 festival will be posted by early February. Be sure to follow our Facebook page to get updates on the availability of applications. Thank you!
April 15th – the deadline for returning vendors, food vendors and demonstrator applications. After April 15th, we begin assigning spaces to new vendors so please submit your applications by the deadline if you wish to return to the festival.
May 15th – the deadline by which NEW vendors must submit their applications. Submit your applications as EARLY as possible. We close the application window once all the spots are filled.
There are 3 steps in the vendor application process:
1. Read the Rules and Policies thoroughly so you understand what is required of both craft and food vendors. Click here for a copy. Not knowing them will not be an excuse for not following them.
2. Submit an application below (click one of the blue buttons per type of vendor), being sure to list ALL items to be displayed, along with photos. Applications are completed online. Paper copies are not preferred but are available by emailing the festival manager at festival@boonsborohistoricalsociety.org.
3. Submit Vendor Fee. Returning vendors will pay for their booths at the same time they complete their application via payment buttons. New Vendors will not pay their fee until they have received notification that they have been approved as a vendor.
Vendor Applications
Returning Vendors are those who exhibited at either the 2023 or 2024 festival.
New Vendors are those who have not exhibited at the festival before – or have not exhibited in the past 2 years. NOTE: New Vendors do not pay for a booth until they have received notice that they have been accepted into the festival. Once you receive notice, payment links will be provided to you.
Food & Beverage Vendors sell their items from designated spots around the festival location, including pavilions or their own food truck, not from the booth spaces provided for craft vendors.
Demonstrators are those who demonstrate their craft or expertise for the benefit of festival-goers. While all craft vendors are encouraged to demonstrate their handiwork when possible, those who are demonstrating ONLY are not charged a booth fee and they are not allowed to sell items from their space.
WARNING! – Do not submit a vendor application unless it is using the buttons above to go to our official applications (or if the festival manager directly emails you a copy you can print). Do not send money to anyone on Facebook claiming to have spaces. These are a scam. Typically, there are a large number of yard sales and churches selling items during the festival weekend. ONLY official BBD vendors will receive a booth at Shafer Park as part of Boonesborough Days.
If you have questions about the festival and becoming a vendor, you may contact festival volunteers using the form below or by emailing festival@boonsborohistoricalsociety.org.