Many markets have opening bells to let vendors and customers know that it's time to start selling, but the bell at the Bellevue Farmers' Market is different. For one thing, they ring it at a faster tempo, with particular enthusiasm. And, unlike any other market where I've ever vended, they don't let any customers come in until after they've rang the bell. Folks congregate just outside--usually forty or fifty people--and they let them in all at once as the bell is being rung. It feels different from the events where folks mill around while we're trying to set up. This feels almost like a race, with everyone leaping into action at once in response to a given cue.
Bellevue also has something else I've never seen at another market: a closing bell.
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