Scenes From A Scarecrow Contest '09

Hometown Halloween

Rain Delay: Pancake Breakfast, Scarecrow Contest & Hoedown Postponed Until Sunday, October 25

Everyday Heros

I was reluctant to call 911, because I did not want to trouble the men and women who volunteer for our fire and ambulance department. But after the plug-in carbon monoxide alarm I had just bought at Lindell's started chirping (after the other one in my house was chirping and I could not interpret whether that meant the battery was dying, the alarm way dying, or I was on my way to dying). So within five minutes, the good men and women of the Falls Village Volunteer Fire and Ambulance Department were at my house, and they knew right away that my plug in alarm needed to have a battery in it too as a back up and that was why I heard chirping. (If only I had read the 20 page instruction manual before plugging it in.) Oy vey, as my grandmother used to say. I am so embarrassed to have wasted our volunteers' time. But I am comforted to know that my neighbors are ready to be my heros if one day I truly need them.

Words & Music Library Benefit at Music Mountain on Sunday, Oct. 18 @ 2 pm

When I heard that Betsy Howie and Lonnie Carter were going to share the Music Mountain stage on Sunday, October 18, and read 84 Charing Cross Road as a benefit for the library I immediately thought of Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. Why? Because Howie and Carter were once a couple and just like the Burtons, who performed in Private Lives after they split, it's kind of fun to watch a play when there's an added subtext. Besides, as everyone in town knows, Betsy and Lonnie are gifted and generous artists and the reading should be a once in a lifetime theatrical experience.

Here's the Hunt Library's press release on the event, which includes great local music too:

Come remember or learn what it was like to write letters and listen to great music!

84, CHARING CROSS ROAD will be read by Betsy Howie & Lonnie Carter as a benefit for the David M. Hunt Library on Sunday, October 18, at 2 p.m. at Music Mountain. 84 records a correspondence and a love story of 20 years in funny, warm and moving letters between a New York City book lover and her favorite London bookshop. It was supposedly the inspiration for the best seller The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society.

Joshua Stone will direct talented volunteers from the HVRHS Jazz Band and Sweethearts in great s-w-i-n-g-i-n-g songs: Blue Moon, Satin Doll, Take Five, Mr. Sandman, Something's Gotta Give, Where the Boys Are, Jump, Jive & Wail, and more!

You will hear Joshua Stone on piano and Tom Krupa, HVRHS Musical Director, on trumpet. Tom Krupa will direct the HVRHS Jazz Combo--Kellogg’s own: Jacob Horowitz, Piano; Van Daalhuyzen, Bass; Ben Paley, Guitar; Dylan Vadakin, Drums; Ben Finkelstein, Trumpet. Joshua Stone will direct several "Ensembles à la McGuire Sisters" and Alicia Simonetti-Schpurr, HVRHS Night Choir Director, will direct the Chorus--Meghan Brown, Shyla Gregory, Danielle Kearns, Samantha McKenzie, Kayla Robinson, Becky Sawicki, Cornelia Smith, Genevieve Terrall, Cassie Worthington, Ellie Yahn


And a special bonus performance: Three Generations of Falls Village Sinclairs--Mary Lu Sinclair and Laura, Lusanna & Kneeland Munson--will sing Que Sera, Sera!




Hunt Library’s 12th Annual Words & Music*

Sunday, October 18 at 2:00 pm at Music Mountain

$15/$18 @ the door
Teenagers: $10, Children 12 & under: $5

* All proceeds help pay for the operation (buying books, DVDs, computers, salaries) of our wonderful library and staff!

"Chairish the Arts" Auction at Mohawk Mountain on Saturday, October 17

You can support arts education in our region--and the work of the Northwest Connecticut Arts Council which is run by Falls Village resident Amy Wynn--at a live and silent auction of one-of-a-kind chairs at the lodge at Mohawk Mountain.
SIlent Auction 2 - 4:30 PM; Live auction at 4:30 PM
Adults: $15.00 or $25.00 (beer/wine)
Children 12 and up: $5.00
Children 12 and under: Free
For more information Click Here

You Can Still Enter the Scarecrow Contest

Click on the images to read the details. Registration and hay & crossbar pickup will be October 10 at 103 Main Street from 9:30 AM - 10:30 AM. Or contact Denise Cohn (824-4303) or Dan Shaw (824-5582) to arrange to pick up supplies at another time.