Shopping at the Specialty

By Joye Neff and Lori Friedli


In 1998, Pat Long attended her first National Specialty and upon returning home, did a series of articles featuring the vendors from the Specialty. Joye Neff attended her first National Specialty in 1999, and Pat asked her if she would like to continue the “Shopping at the Specialty”series. Joye has done the “Shopping at the Specialty” series for the past twenty years and knows that those of you who are not able to attend the Specialty love seeing the photos of the items at the vendors' booths, as well as reading and seeing what they were selling. Lori Friedli assisted Joye this year at the Specialty, since Joye helped Pat Tuesday through Friday with Longshots. THANK YOU Lori for your expert help with the Shopping Series.


Through this series, you will be able to feel like you were at the Specialty. You can place orders via the vendor's websites or the vendor's email addresses. Be sure to mention that you saw their Berner items on the Shopping at the 2018 Specialty series.

THANK YOU also to Julia and Wayne Airgood and Bert Klei for transporting the prizes to me that the vendors donated to the 2019 Berner-Garde Fundraiser.

Happy Shopping!!