{"id":11924,"date":"2022-05-30T21:48:54","date_gmt":"2022-05-31T01:48:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wfsu.org\/local-routes\/?post_type=wfsu-news&#038;p=11924"},"modified":"2022-06-01T14:21:18","modified_gmt":"2022-06-01T18:21:18","slug":"tallahassees-downtown-market-celebrates-29-years-4","status":"publish","type":"wfsu-news","link":"https:\/\/wfsu.org\/local-routes\/wfsu-news\/tallahassees-downtown-market-celebrates-29-years-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Tallahassee&#8217;s Downtown Market celebrates 29 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For nearly three decades, the Tallahassee Downtown Market has been a Saturday tradition in the Capital City between spring and fall. The popular attraction was marking its anniversary this past weekend.<\/p>\n<p>The musical duo of Bill McGuire and Paul Doyle provided the soundtrack for the market\u2019s anniversary party. Since its inception, the market has been under the oversight of Tallahassee\u2019s Downtown Improvement Authority, which Executive Director Elizabeth Emmanuel heads.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt means a lot to our community to be here for 29 years\u2014the Tallahassee Downtown Market\u2014and it means a lot to our vendors who support local. These vendors come here every Saturday morning, set up, and tear down.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One vendor who\u2019s been doing that nearly since the market began is Calvary, Georgia Farmer John Corker. He\u2019s been bringing his fresh-grown produce to the Downtown Market for a quarter of a century. Selling to customers that he calls \u201cfriends.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI make friends every time I come to the market, and [am] making friends all the time. Folks come and they come back to see me again. And that\u2019s what I like!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And Farmer John, even at the sprightly age of 84, said he\u2019s looking forward to making even more friends at the Tallahassee Downtown Market.  <\/p>\n<div class=\"fullattribution\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.google-analytics.com\/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&#038;utmdt=Tallahassee%27s+Downtown+Market+celebrates+29+years&#038;utme=8(APIKey)9(MDA4MzU1MzUzMDEzMTkyMzAwMzY5MjY1Mw004)\"\/><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":11925,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","wds_primary_category":0},"categories":[],"tags":[1136,1135],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Tallahassee&#039;s Downtown Market celebrates 29 years - WFSU Local Routes<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/wfsu.org\/local-routes\/wfsu-news\/tallahassees-downtown-market-celebrates-29-years-4\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Tallahassee&#039;s Downtown Market celebrates 29 years - WFSU Local Routes\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"For nearly three decades, the Tallahassee Downtown Market has been a Saturday tradition in the Capital City between spring and fall. 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