Support The Library Saturday Night!

There's a new spin on this year's Silent Auction. It's being held in the loft-like old Town Hall space on Main Street.


The D.M. Hunt Library will hold its 8th Annual Auction in the Village on Saturday, Sept 26. The event features both silent and live auctions. Fine wine, beer, and the library’s own special Green Man Grog will be served. Food catered by Freund’s Farm Market & Bakery in East Canaan. Magician Sandy Rhoades will perform. Mary Palmer will conduct the live auction. Tickets cost $25 and are tax-deductible.

This year’s auction will take place at The Old Town Hall on Main Street, a short walk from the library. This venue puts a fresh face on this favorite annual event while providing a more spacious layout in a historic building and wheelchair accessibility.

The silent auction, which opens at 5pm and ends at 6:30pm, features local food, goods, and services as well as tickets to museums and performance events. Many of these items are bundled together as gift baskets with specially chosen books.

Featured live auction items include a private screening event at The Movie House in Millerton, NY, a cocktail party for 20 at the home of Bunny Williams and John Rosselli, a flight in Bob Giumarro’s Piper Archer, and tickets to Lime Rock Race Park with an opportunity for “hot laps” around the track in a pace car.

Auction in the Village is an annual fund raiser to benefit the 120-year-old David M. Hunt Memorial Library and helps raise up to 20% of the library’s annual operating budget.

A second part of the library’s fund raising season, Words & Music, takes place at Music Mountain at 2pm on Sunday, October 18. This performance based event will feature a live reading of the play “84, Charing Cross Road” by James Roose-Evans based on the novel by Helene Hanff. Featuring Betsy Howie and Lonnie Carter; Music Director Joshua Stone. Tickets $15 advance; $18 door, tax-deductible donation.

Both events have been made possible by generous support from underwriter Century Aggregates and sponsored by Rural Intelligence, Salisbury Bank, Torrington Savings Bank, Elyse Harney Real Estate and The National Iron Bank.

8th Annual Auction in the Village
To Benefit the David M. Hunt Memorial Library in Falls Village
5pm to 8pm, Saturday, September 26, 2009
The Old Town Hall – 107 Main Street, Falls Village, CT 06031
Tickets $25 / Information: 824-7424 / Wheelchair accessible