{"id":53880,"date":"2025-12-06T21:46:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T21:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/53880\/"},"modified":"2025-12-06T21:46:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T21:46:07","slug":"ardmore-pennsylvania-hosts-first-ever-holiday-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/53880\/","title":{"rendered":"Ardmore, Pennsylvania, hosts first-ever holiday market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Delco to Chesco and Montco to Bucks, what about life in Philly\u2019s suburbs do you want WHYY News to cover? <a href=\"#Section1\">Let us know!<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>Ardmore kicked off its first-ever holiday market Saturday, hosting more than 20 vendors.\n<\/p>\n<p>Despite the winter chill, holiday shoppers wandered through Schauffele Plaza, perusing everything from candles and pottery to clothing and glassware.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-724805\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/ardmore-holiday-market-1-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"A variety of jewelry and other items are on display in an outdoor tent in Ardmore\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\"  \/>Ardmore is hosting its first-ever holiday market at Schauffele Plaza on Dec. 6 and Dec. 13. (Emily Neil\/WHYY)\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs an artist, if we didn\u2019t have markets, we wouldn\u2019t be able to actually sell our work,\u201d said Marcia Reiver, a Bryan Mawr-based ceramicist who was selling her pottery, jewelry and other wares at the market Saturday.\n  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you buy something from an artist, you\u2019re actually making a big deal,\u201d she said.\n<\/p>\n<p>In addition to showcasing local artists, the market is designed to boost foot traffic to local businesses, said Alec Hersh, executive director of Ardmore Initiative, the town\u2019s business improvement district.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are holiday events elsewhere in the Main Line,\u201d Hersh said. \u201cI wanted to make something happen here in downtown Ardmore that would make it really serve as \u2026 that magnetic force for people all across, from West Philly all the way up to Malvern, to come here.\u201d<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-724806\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/ardmore-holiday-market-2-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"People shop in an outdoor tent in Ardmore, Pennsylvania\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\"  \/>Ardmore is hosting its first-ever holiday market at Schauffele Plaza on Dec. 6 and Dec. 13. (Emily Neil\/WHYY)\n<\/p>\n<p>Grace O\u2019Shea was carrying her toddler while browsing the different stalls. She said she and her family were able to walk just blocks from their home to check out the event.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s great to have proximity to a market like this,\u201d she said. \u201cWe are always looking for fun things to do on the weekend, right? And this is something super easy for us.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>Visitors can pick up a passport for the month of December at the market, said Rebecca D\u2019Ostilio, marketing and events manager for Ardmore Initiative.\n<\/p>\n<p>Once someone gets three stickers from participating businesses with any purchase, they can enter a giveaway for three $100 gift cards.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat brings the community together, too,\u201d she said. \u201cYou feel like you\u2019re participating in shopping small. Which is the point of this, even with the vendors, right, you\u2019re supporting a small business, and I think that\u2019s super important.\u201d\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From Delco to Chesco and Montco to Bucks, what about life in Philly\u2019s suburbs do you want WHYY&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":53881,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[30224,28,30,29,1384],"class_list":{"0":"post-53880","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pennsylvania","8":"tag-ardmore","9":"tag-pennsylvania","10":"tag-pennsylvania-headlines","11":"tag-pennsylvania-news","12":"tag-philly-suburbs"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53880\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}