By 8 a.m. Friday morning, antique vendors from all over had filled Wareham’s Town Green with E-Z Ups and goods and wares from the good ol’s days, but by around 9:15, the rains came, forcing all but a few of the vendors to go home.

“It’s a rain or shine event,” said Kathy Morse, a member of the Wareham Historical Society, who was organized the 38th Annual Fourth of July Antiques Faire. “In my memory, there’s only been one other time since I’ve been involved that it’s rained.”

Despite most of the vendors leaving due to the weather, some took shelter inside the Old Methodist Meeting House near the Town Green, where they had set up tables to display a variety of antique items, many of which were from Wareham or Onset.

“I’ve been doing this since I was in high school,” said Franik McNamee of Marion Antiques, who had done some appraisals of antiques that morning on a live broadcast from Wareham Community Television. “We had some interesting things come in.”

One of those things was a copper codfish weathervane from the 1850s, which McNamee valued at somewhere from $3,000 to $5,000. He said that besides a Rockwood Art pottery vase from around 1910, which he valued at around $300 to $500, he hadn’t seen much else that day of significant value.

Some of McNamee’s items on display included what he called “ephemera,” or in other words, pamphlets, flyers, posters, and other paper goods not meant to be preserved, though at this point, there’ll still of some worth to many. Marion Antiques goods took up most of the room, with a smattering of other antiques spread throughout the quaint and historic room.

“(Hurricane) Arthur really put a damper on the show,” he said. It’s too bad, but that’s what happens when you have outside events.

Proceeds from the live auctions go to the Wareham Historical Society for future events.