Mansfield Drive-In Flea Market draws in the crowds courant.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from courant.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
MANSFIELD - Nine months after it succumbed to the COVID pandemic, the Mansfield Flea Market and Antiques Show has been revived just in time for its 49th year. It s under new management, Josh Kaple said as he surveyed the Richland County Fairgrounds, which has hosted the market since 1972. Next year will be the 50th year.
Vendors still have plenty of time to partake in the event s return, scheduled for the weekend of June 26 and 27.
Kaple grew up in Bucyrus and would attend the flea market almost every month with his family in the 1980s and 90s.
The market closed in October 2020. Kaple and his friend, Steve Beckett, learned over the winter that the previous owners were planning to dissolve the tradition.