http://valfa.com Nobody can tell when a tradition begins, but hundreds of families have started with Vaillancourt Chalkware. Mon, 21 May 2012 13:21:27 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://valfa.com/2011/blackstone-area-students-illustrate-a-christmas-carol/ http://valfa.com/2011/blackstone-area-students-illustrate-a-christmas-carol/#comments Mon, 21 Nov 2011 20:30:05 +0000 Vaillancourt Folk Art http://valfa.com/?p=2730 In honor of the presentation of “A Christmas Carol” performed by the great-great grandson of Charles Dickens, Vaillancourt Folk Art has held an illustration contest open to High School and Middle School students in the Blackstone Valley area. The theme of the work needed to be a scene from “ A Christmas Carol”. The medium [...]]]> http://valfa.com/2011/blackstone-area-students-illustrate-a-christmas-carol/feed/ 0 http://valfa.com/2010/one-man-show/ http://valfa.com/2010/one-man-show/#comments Sun, 28 Nov 2010 17:28:56 +0000 Vaillancourt Folk Art http://valfa.com/?p=1703 By Bill Fortier TELEGRAM & GAZETTE STAFF (Read here) SUTTON —  Gerald Charles Dickens is adding a generous helping of Christmas spirit this weekend at Vaillancourt Folk Art in the Manchaug Mills. Mr. Dickens, whose great-great-grandfather was Charles Dickens, is traveling throughout the United States through Christmas performing “A Christmas Carol,” and judging by the [...]]]> http://valfa.com/2010/one-man-show/feed/ 0 http://valfa.com/2010/a-dickens-weekend/ http://valfa.com/2010/a-dickens-weekend/#comments Fri, 26 Nov 2010 21:35:06 +0000 Vaillancourt Folk Art http://valfa.com/?p=1687 http://valfa.com/2010/a-dickens-weekend/feed/ 0 http://valfa.com/2010/charles-dickens-great-great-grandson-returning-to-central-ma/ http://valfa.com/2010/charles-dickens-great-great-grandson-returning-to-central-ma/#comments Fri, 18 Jun 2010 19:06:01 +0000 Vaillancourt Folk Art http://valfa.com/?p=1222 DICKENS RETURNS Vaillancourt Folk Art is pleased to announce that Gerald Charles Dickens, the great, great grandson of famed author Charles Dickens will be returning to Sutton this year to perform the holiday classic “A Christmas Carol”. Like last year, the presentations at Vaillancourt Folk Art will be the kick off of his United States [...]]]> http://valfa.com/2010/charles-dickens-great-great-grandson-returning-to-central-ma/feed/ 0 http://valfa.com/2010/history-of-dickens-illustrators/ http://valfa.com/2010/history-of-dickens-illustrators/#comments Sat, 24 Apr 2010 15:56:14 +0000 Vaillancourt Folk Art http://valfa.com/?p=1044 Judi Vaillancourt’s presentation on a history of illustrators of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens.]]> http://valfa.com/2010/history-of-dickens-illustrators/feed/ 0 http://valfa.com/2009/i-will-honor-christmas-in-my-heart-and-try-to-keep-it-all-the-year/ http://valfa.com/2009/i-will-honor-christmas-in-my-heart-and-try-to-keep-it-all-the-year/#comments Mon, 30 Nov 2009 01:29:32 +0000 Vaillancourt Folk Art http://valfa.com/?p=459 All of us at Vaillancourt Folk Art wish to thank all who attended the performances of A Christmas Carol performed by Gerald Charles Dickens, the Great-great-grandson of Charles Dickens. We had four fabulous performances to sold out crowds! All attendees were touched by Mr. Dickens’ performances of this one man show, as he took the [...]]]> http://valfa.com/2009/i-will-honor-christmas-in-my-heart-and-try-to-keep-it-all-the-year/feed/ 0 http://valfa.com/2009/dickens-descendant-performs-a-christmas-carol/ http://valfa.com/2009/dickens-descendant-performs-a-christmas-carol/#comments Sun, 29 Nov 2009 16:51:03 +0000 Vaillancourt Folk Art http://valfa.com/?p=505 http://valfa.com/2009/dickens-descendant-performs-a-christmas-carol/feed/ 0 http://valfa.com/2009/a-real-dickens-the-originals-great-great-grandson/ http://valfa.com/2009/a-real-dickens-the-originals-great-great-grandson/#comments Tue, 24 Nov 2009 13:34:44 +0000 Vaillancourt Folk Art http://valfa.com/?p=370 A real Dickens (Full Article)THE ORIGINAL’S GREAT-GREAT-GRANDSON By Donna Boynton TELEGRAM & GAZETTE STAFF (Nov 24, 2009) SUTTON —  He remembers the first time he heard “A Christmas Carol.” It was Christmas Eve, he was 5 and his father had gathered the children to read the story that included the miser, the trio of holiday [...]]]> http://valfa.com/2009/a-real-dickens-the-originals-great-great-grandson/feed/ 0 http://valfa.com/2009/dickens-interview-with-jim-polito/ http://valfa.com/2009/dickens-interview-with-jim-polito/#comments Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:27:26 +0000 Vaillancourt Folk Art http://valfa.com/media/?p=180 http://valfa.com/2009/dickens-interview-with-jim-polito/feed/ 0 http://valfa.com/2009/dickens/ http://valfa.com/2009/dickens/#comments Sun, 01 Nov 2009 20:32:46 +0000 Vaillancourt Folk Art http://valfa.com/media/?p=287 Gerald Charles Dickens is making a special trip to Vaillancourt Folk Art from London to perform his great-great grandfather’s classic tale, ‘A Christmas Carol.’ Dickens adopts different voices, expressions and mannerisms to portray each of the story’s twenty-six characters in this acclaimed one-man show. Show time approx. one hour. Not recommended for children under the [...]]]> http://valfa.com/2009/dickens/feed/ 0