We rented an arts and crafts booth for the first time this year. There were so many booths, we didnt' even make what the booth cost us to rent.We lost a lot of money. There were so many commercial booths, the arts and crafts didn't even stand a chance.Riverfest has turned into a large two day shopping mall. I would rather have been told they didn't have room for me than to compete with a million other people selling stuff. Anyway, I understand we are in a recession, but truly it was unreal the amount of vendors. So much competition , I dont' think any of them made a huge amount of money. It was a good learning experience though.