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Herz wins Market Days Poster Contest

With the 42nd annual Mathews Market Days a little more than three weeks away, excitement for the popular festival began to build last weekend with the unveiling of this year’s Market Days Poster Contest winner.
Several dozen people gathered in the historic Mathews Courthouse on Saturday afternoon to see the winning artwork. Works by Mary Herz, Carol Aldridge, Janice Hall and Sidney Read were considered. In the end, Herz took home the honor for the second year in a row.
Herz is originally from New Jersey and, though she has family ties to Mathews, did not begin submitting her work until recently. However, after seeing past entries from an artist in Richmond, Herz began submitting paintings for consideration in 2013.
“It is just amazing to win this,” she said. “It’s something you start as a hobby and it is just so gratifying for the public to recognize it in this way.”
Her painting was done with watercolors and depicted the view from Janice and Dick Ph...

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