Showing off Dayton
Vendors of all kinds display wares at Dayton Expo
-Messenger photo by Hans Madsen <BR> Richard Hindman, of Dayton, sits behind his stand of hand-carved morel art at the Dayton Vendor Expo in the Dayton Community Center Saturday.
-Messenger photo by Hans Madsen <BR> Daniel Currier, of Churdan, works on making a keychain Saturday at the Dayton Vendor Expo in the Dayton Community Center. Currier and his wife BJ were at the show as C&C Crafts.
-Messenger photo by Hans Madsen <BR> Nicole Carlson, owner of Spa 21 in Dayton, shares a laugh with Robyn Dodson, of Boxholm, as Dodson gets a massage Saturday at the Dayton Vendor Expo in the Dayton Community Center.
-Messenger photo by Hans Madsen <BR> Nate Stevens, owner of Kowboy Kustoms in Dayton, pauses for a second in his work Saturday during the Dayton Vendor Expo in the Dayton Community Center. Stevens was masking a pedal car to prepare it for painting. The car will be raffled at the Dayton Old Engine Day on May 23, 2026.
-Messenger photo by Hans Madsen <BR> Richard Hindman, of Dayton, sits behind his stand of hand-carved morel art at the Dayton Vendor Expo in the Dayton Community Center Saturday.
-Messenger photo by Hans Madsen <BR> Daniel Currier, of Churdan, works on making a keychain Saturday at the Dayton Vendor Expo in the Dayton Community Center. Currier and his wife BJ were at the show as C&C Crafts.
-Messenger photo by Hans Madsen <BR> Nicole Carlson, owner of Spa 21 in Dayton, shares a laugh with Robyn Dodson, of Boxholm, as Dodson gets a massage Saturday at the Dayton Vendor Expo in the Dayton Community Center.
-Messenger photo by Hans Madsen <BR> Nate Stevens, owner of Kowboy Kustoms in Dayton, pauses for a second in his work Saturday during the Dayton Vendor Expo in the Dayton Community Center. Stevens was masking a pedal car to prepare it for painting. The car will be raffled at the Dayton Old Engine Day on May 23, 2026.
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DAYTON -- Richard Hindman's display at the annual Dayton Vendor's Expo Saturday in the Dayton Community Center was right in line with the season out in the woods.
Morel carvings, morel walking sticks, morel photographs in frames.
"I hunt them," Hindman said. "I carve them. It keeps me out of trouble."
He had several different sizes to offer. The medium-sized mushrooms take him about 45 minutes, he said.
One thing that you won't find at his table … directions to his favorite and most productive morel spot.
"That's a secret," he said. "No amount of money would buy that."
Just up the aisle a few vendors, Nicole Carlson, the owner of Spa 21 in Dayton, was helping Robyn Dodson, of Boxholm, relax with a neck and shoulder massage.
"I've been to her before," Dodson said. "She's awesome."
In July, Carlson will celebrate two years at her downtown Dayton location.
"I've been pleasantly surprised at how many people are interested in massage," she said.
Daniel Currier, of Churdan, along with his wife BJ Currier, were at the Expo Saturday with a variety of handmade craft items. They're known as C&C Crafts.
"I do all the resin and the wood," he said. "She does the crocheting."
Saturday was their fourth year at the Expo.
"We usually do pretty good," he said. "One year I bartered a clock for some handmade fishing lures."
Nate Stevens, of Dayton, owns Kowboy Kustoms.
He took advantage of the day to work on masking off stars for his pedal car, which is painted patriotically in honor of America's 250th birthday celebration. The car will be raffled during Old Engine Day on May 23, 2026.
"For this part, I'm able to work and talk to people at the same time," he said.
The current car is the 10th one he's painted. It may never see a child though.
"A lot of them get put on display," he said.
The annual show featured about 20 vendors and is hosted by the Dayton Community Club.