Valraven Forge & Craftworks

09/19/2026

Thank you Rosspoint Elementary School!

09/19/2026

Valraven had a wonderful time today at the Kingdom Come Swappin Meetin demonstrating blacksmith techniques to all the visiting children from the area schools. Michael did a great presentation as always and just maybe there will be a younger generation of newly forged blacksmiths. We honor the ancestors in our heritage. Thank you Southeast Community College and the organizers for having us! We have one more day tomorrow so come on out and see us!

09/16/2026

This weekend! Appalachian crafts going strong!

We told ya it's gonna be a good festival! 🎉

Join us at Swappin' Meetin' next Saturday, September 19, 10 AM - 6 PM, for a full day of Appalachian food, crafts, music, contests, storytelling, and family fun!

FOOD TRUCKS
CANE Kitchen
Cumberland Lions Club
Grillzilla
Hickory Fried
Hillbilly Q
Purple Possum
Redneckers
Redneckers II
Stack Daddy’s

ARTISANS & DEMONSTRATORS
Apple Butter & Molasses
Apple Cider
Basket Weaving
Bees & Honeycomb
Blacksmith/Forge
Broom Maker
Butter Churning
Corn Shuck Dolls
Dulcimer
Hand Carved Items
Handmade Jewelry
Homemade Paper
Native Dancing & Jewelry
Sorghum
Storytelling
Turkey Calls
Walking Sticks
Woodworking
Wool Spinning on the Wheel

KIDS HOLLER:
Bounce houses
Dunking booth
Kids play games

VENDORS UPPER CAMPUS:
ARH Mobile Clinic
Ashley Taylor
Backroad Company
Black Bear Cake Pop Co.
Black Mountain Candle Co.
Bread Baking Mama
Burning Country LLC
Busy Bee Lemonade
Candace Mandrell
Candy Carnage Productions
Coots Country Stitches
Creations by Joyce LLC
Crow Leather Company
Dan Witt
Debra Fields
Girly Pop
Handmade Magic by Talia
Harlan Health and Rehabilitation
Kayla’s Bread Box
Kentucky Natural Land Trust
Kristen Foley & Kelly Vandagriff
Kline’s Original Knives
KYNECT (MCHC)
Lewis & Ember
LiKEN KNOWLEDGE
Liminal Line Designs
Lindsey Wilson University
Linked X Leah
Lisa Thacker
Made by Bowie
Mikayla Ratliff
Redeemed Living Candles
Scent Stories
Sweet Peach
Tempered Chocolate Bakers
Willing Hands Homestead

VENDORS LOWER CAMPUS:
Darla Jackson
Eye of the Beholder
Fields Produce
Franks Creekside Photography
Giddyup & Go
Glamorous Divas
Harlan County Book Mobile
Hill & Holler
Janelle Tucker
Jojo’s Country Crafts
LCCHS Cheer
Looney Creek Emporium
MCHC
NYCE Beaded Designs
Patty Sokolowski
Pawful Productions
Payton Miles
Phyllis Branham
Princess Mella’s Cosmetics
Rebecca’s Creative Designs
Rhonda Farmer
Rooted in Christ Woodwork & Design

CONTESTS:
Baked Goods
Pickles, Jams, and Jellies
Quilts
Storytelling
Art
Photography
Co****le
Horseshoe

MUSIC & ENTERTAINMENT:
10 AM - Storytelling with Dr. Bruce Ayers, president emeritus
10:30 AM - Music & Story with Higher Ground
11 AM - Music with Tammy Chapman
12 PM - Storytelling with Octavia Sexton
1 PM - Celebration of Cumberland's 100th & CHS Tribute Room dedication
1:30 PM - Music with Ruby & Jake Ravizee
2 PM - Center Stage Cloggers
3 PM - Music with Brooklyn Burkhart
4 PM - Music with Laci Deaton
5 PM - Music with Blue Rock'n Grass
...and more! Don't miss it!

09/06/2026

Thanks to everyone who shopped and visited with us at the PossumFest in Cumberland Kentucky. I believe it was the hottest one on record. Thor even visited us with a really short but powerful thunderstorm! We survived just got a bit wet. 😁. So many great vendors, organizers and volunteers! See y’all next year!

09/05/2026

Congratulations!🎊

09/04/2026

Shuttle stops if you are headed to the Possum fest!

🚌 FREE PARK & RIDE SHUTTLES

FRIDAY & SATURDAY: 10 AM–9 PM

🅿 Old Walgreens
2319 E. Main St., Cumberland, KY 40823

🅿 Cumberland Elementary
322 Golf Course Rd., Cumberland, KY 40823

🅿 Cumberland High School
605 Redskin Drive, Cumberland, KY 40823

🅿 Club 180
716 School Rd., Cumberland, KY 40823

🅿 Old Pizza Hut
1208 E. Main St., Cumberland, KY 40823

Park, hop on the shuttle, and let us do the driving! 🙌

WELCOME TO POSSUMFEST! 🎉

09/04/2026

Gonna be a great weekend! Come see us

ROLL CALL! 📣

We’re up to 32 STATES and 4 COUNTRIES represented at PossumFest 2026! 🦡

THIRTY-TWO! And we’re not done yet!

Last call, Possum people! If you’re coming from out of state and we don't have ya on the map yet, drop your state in the comments so we can see just how far the PossumFest fever is spreading. 👇

Who’s coming from the farthest away? Who’s representing their state? Let’s hear it!

Cumberland, Kentucky is calling. See y’all at PossumFest! 🦡🎉

09/02/2026

🔥 NEW PRODUCTS fresh from the Forge! ONE OF A KIND!

🔘Hummingbird yard art
🔘bird feeder/plant holder/candle holder- whatever you want it to be!
🔘 Dinner triangle
🔘 metal tulip flower
And finally….
🔘 Cow Bell! (Everyone could use more cow bell 😁)

We will have these at thepossumfest this weekend!
Come see us!

08/30/2026

📍Check out the official Possum Fest Vendor Map and plan your route before you hit downtown Cumberland. Whether you're hunting for handmade goods, delicious eats, local artists, or one-of-a-kind Appalachian finds, this map will help you make sure you don't miss a thing.

Happy exploring, and remember... half the fun is wandering around and discovering something you weren't even looking for! 🍅🎶🛍️

1-2 Redneckers
3 Cupful Cravings
4-5 The Miracle Crafting Corner, Stitches, and Twisted Threads
6 Sazon
7 Caricatures By Hayley
8 My Weird Kentucky Home
9-10 Cumberland Tourism
11-12 Willing Hearts
13-14 Key X Designs
15 AnimeGravy
16 Goldenrod Mercantile: Art and Oddities
17 PossumPrint Art
18 Possum Creations by Waylon
19 Wandering Warrior
20-21 Harlan Tyler
22-23 Wandering Warrior
24 Kentucky Natural Land Trust
25-26 Oh So Chic Boutique
27 Fidgety Feline
28 Nee Nee’s Knot Shop
29 Harlan County Sheriff's Department
30 Mimosa Studios
31 Backroad Company
32 Appalachian Nanny
33 Patty Sokoloski
34 Mountainside Magic
35 Swiney’s BBQ
36 D & J Cotton Candy
37 Art Jackson
38 Wayne Stilwell- Apple Butter
39-40 Knotty Gal
41-42 Pappyswoodcrafts TN
43 Big AUS Coffee
45-46 Frank’s Kool Stuff
47 Candace Mandrell
48 HCHS Dance Team- Dunking Booth
49 Suzy Q’s
50 Rayna’s Refreshments
51 Dewy Lewis- Axe Throwing
52 Valraven Forge
52 A Beverly’s Brooms
53 Valraven Forge (Butter Churning)
54 Uncle Day Day’s Donuts
55-57 Hill & Holler
58 Riverside Greenery
59 GoldnSpun
60-61 One Journey Woodshop
62 Knoxville Rugby Team
63 Dickson Health and Life
64 Bread Baking Mama
65 Dan Whitt
66 Cuteness and Vexation
67 Rock On Painted Rocks
68 Linomite Prints
69 Liminal Line Designs
70 Khloe’s Kreations
71 The Twisted Cat
72 D’s Wreath & Crafty Designs
73-74 Burning Country, LLC
75-76 Knots of Love, Dana Snodgrass
77 Hickory Hills Freeze Dried
78 Smothered and Covered
79 Vanover Woodshop
80 Permalinx by Kamryn
81-82 Appalachian Twisted Tines
83-84 Phyllis Branham
85 Christina’s Creations
86-87 Brittany Couch
88 The Nuthouse Treats
89 Marigold and Marie
90 Letcher County Cheer Team
91 Redneck Ramen
92 Flippin’ Donuts
93 CANE Kitchen
94 Field’s Produce
95 Willing Hands Homestead
96-97 Glamorous Diva
105-107 Ken’s Custom Tees
110 Pine Mountain Perennials
111-112 Curmudgeon Woodcrafts
113-114 Chicken Beans Co.
115 Cozy Cottage Designs
116 Elizabeth Mullins
117 The Purple Possum
118-119 Wilderness Trail Wildlife Center
120-121 Mountainview Wildlife Rehabilitation
122 The Sassy Freshies N Things
123 Wallen Custom Lures
124 The Quilted Cat, etc.
125 The Purple Merchant
126-128 Glitz, Grunge, and Grace
129-130 Bailey’s Crafts and Creations
131 Stack Daddy’s
132 Katy’s Freeze Dried Kreations
133 Handtuckian Soaps and More
134 Ink and Ember Creations
135 Creative Crochet
136 Drowsie Sloth
137 Stoplight Stained Glass
138 The Blue Lotus Apothecary
139 Leatherwood Soaps and Sundries
140 Embody Aura
141-142 Clothed with Scarlette
143-144 Cottage Row Crafts
145-146 Charmed by Abagail
147 CaspiArts
150 I Know a Girl Design Co.
151 Wild Blue Yarnder
152 Hot Trash Shop
153 Graceful Stitches
154 Your Whittle Friends
155-158 Tea Rex Creations
159-160 South Fork Ferals
161 MirArt Studio
163-164 Pleasant Point Design
165-166 Kentucky Brims and Bling Co.
167 Tangled Mess Creations
168 Bluegrass Stitching
169 Mandy’s Little Craft Barn
170-171 Alexi’s Monograms
172 Alexis Gilmore
173 Doodle Dreamland
174 Dobbombs
175 Hot Off The Press
176-177 Giddy Up and Go Freshies, and Blessed Beads by Cathy Boggs
178 Whimsical Fox Gifts
179 The Scented Possum
180 Black Mountain Twisted Canes, and Son
181 Sonja Kelly
182 The Deli Shop
183 Appalachian Wireless
184-185 NYCE Beaded Designs
186-187 Pamela Cornett
188 Heritage Ministries
189 Party Bike Pickup
190-191 MCHC
192-193 T and N Custom Lures
194 BOBZORZ and the Trash Fam, Bobby Bates
195-196 Life by Moccasin Creek
197 Sesame the Opossum
198-199 The Crazy Opossum Lady
200 Kentucky Mist Distillery
201-202 Handmade by Tricia Cahoon
203 McCracken Pet Treats and Stuff
204 Tempered Chocolate Bakers
205 EtherealAvesArt
206 Sweet Peach Boutique
207 VIBES
208 Chelsey Bowman and Sweet ES Treats
209 Luigis’
210 Redeemed Living Candles
211-212 Feral Besties
213-214 The Maker’s Porch
215-216 Kayla’s Bread Box
217 Two Crafty Crows
218 LandofLiv
219 Mountain Quest Studios
220 Kiki’s Magical Crafts
221 Books and Cleverness
222 Steven Watson
223 Ronald Van Stockhum
224-225 1st Baptist Church Salisbury North Carolina
226 Sweet Harlan Honey Bees
228 PARK
229 Games: Daniel Neff
230 Horse Rides: Alexandria Bush
231 Play Area: Kayla Colinger
232 Inflatables: Party Time
233 International Harvester Train