Archive for July, 2010
Easton Farm Tour
The Citizens for Easton (CFE) in Easton, Connecticut, will be hosting its 2nd Annual Easton Farm Tour on Saturday, August 14 from 10 am to 2pm. This free event begins at the Easton Firehouse Green, One Center Road, Easton, CT 06612. Here visitors pick up a copy of the Easton Farm Map which will serve as the road map and pass to events scheduled at participating farms.
Come and enjoy the many farming delights that Easton has to offer and learn where your food comes from. Kids enjoy pony rides, hayrides, petting zoo, and picking veggies and fruit fresh from the farm. Meander through photograph history of Easton and learn what farming was like 100 years from the Easton Historical Society. This year, Skinny Pines – an Easton-based purveyor of wood-fired pizzas – will be on site with their mobile wood-fired oven. Come have lunch on the green, listen to music and begin your tour.
For more information visit the Easton Farm Tour Website.
Summer Book Sale
“Getting old books into new hands”
Pequot Library celebrates its 50th Annual Summer Book Sale
Friday July 23 – Tuesday, July 27
- One of the biggest, best book sales in the region
- Over 140,000 books
- More than 50 categories along with CDs, tapes, LPs, audio books, and more
- Young Readers’ Day on Sunday, July 25th
- Encouraging a life long love of reading and learning in children
- Books for Teachers
- Funded by the Renée B. Fisher Foundation
- Vouchers give teachers from Bridgeport and New Haven $100 worth of books
*Pequot Library’s Book Sales are organized by a dedicated team of volunteers, led by Co- Chairs Doug Fried and John Hartwell, and their collective wisdom about what makes a good book for the sale is what really makes the Pequot Sale so special.
Musical Wednesday
Peanut Butter Jam Session this afternoon, 12:30 on Sherman Green, featuring Roger Tincknell, who plays an array of instruments and his songs inspire singing, moving and dancing. Rain Location is at the Penfield Pavilion on Fairfield Beach Road. Rain re-location information will be posted on the Recreation hotline by 11:30 am, 203-256-3144.
Then tonight at 7pm, a summer concert on Sherman Green with Big Beat (oldies).
50th Anniversary Celebration of an American Classic
“Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit ‘em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.”
A lawyer’s advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of Harper Lee’s classic novel—a black man charged with the rape of a white girl. Through the young eyes of Scout and Jem Finch, Harper Lee explores with rich humor and unswerving honesty the irrationality of adult attitudes toward race and class in the Deep South of the 1930s. The conscience of a town steeped in prejudice, violence, and hypocrisy is pricked by the stamina and quiet heroism of one man’s struggle for justice—but the weight of history will only tolerate so much.
The 50th anniversary edition of one of the best-loved books in American history: Harper Lee’s Pulitzer Prize-winning classic To Kill a Mockingbird. Featuring some of the most memorable characters in literary history—attorney Atticus Finch, his children Scout and Jem, and of course Boo Radley—To Kill a Mockingbird is the indelible story of race, class, and growing up in the Deep South of the 1930s.
To commemorate the Golden Anniversary of the “Best Novel of the 20th Century” (Library Journal poll of American librarians), filmmaker Mary Murphy has interviewed prominent figures—including Oprah, Anna Quindlen, and Tom Brokaw—on how the book has impacted their lives, and compiled the interviews in Scout, Atticus, and Boo: the perfect companion to one of the most important American books of the 20th Century. Additionally, Scout, Atticus, and Boo features a foreword from acclaimed writer Wally Lamb.
July 11th marks the title’s golden anniversary, and in celebration many bookstores across the country are throwing parties. You can find dates and participating stores here: http://tokillamockingbird50year.com/.
Visit the Official Facebook fan page.
Bon Odori Summer Festival
Bon Odori on Saturday, July 10, 2pm to 4:30pm, on on Jesup Green, Westport. Raindate July 25.
Enjoy the Taiko Drumming of Sandra Shen’s O-Tatsu Taiko, join in Japanese folk dancing, and decorate bamboo stalks as part of the the Tanabata Star Festival. Held annually all over Japan since 657 and in Fairfield County by Japan Society of Fairfield County since 1993, Bon Odori is Japan’s main summer festival and a joyous memorial of one’s ancestors.
Promenade Performs Events on the Brick Walk
Check out a FREE Summer Concert this Saturday!
July 10
Classic 50s Music
DJ 6-7pm
Classic Car Show 6-9pm
Hoola Hoop Conest 6pm
Hot Dog Eating Contest 6:30pm
Face Painting 7-9pm
Live Music Cookie Richards 7-9pm
Upcoming Concerts:
August 14
Jazz and Gelato!
Live Music featuring Chris Coogan 7-9pm
Nisan the Magician 6-7pm
Promenade’s First Anniversary Party!
Prizes & Giveaways
September 11
Celebration of the Great American Songbook
Show Tunes & Standards
DJ 6-7pm
Live Music by The Jazz Guild of Fairfield 7-9pm
Face Painting 7-9pm
All events at the Brickwalk Promenade
1189-1215 Post Road
Sponsored by Fairfield County Bank
Happy Independence Day
Enjoy the holiday weekend!
Fairfield’s own fireworks are Sunday, July 4 around 9pm. Jennings Beach and Penfield Beach.
Festivities for the Fourth
Friday
- Westfield Trumbull Fireworks Spectacular from 6-10pm. Enjoy a 25-minute choreographed fireworks display, fabulous food, prizes, giveaways, family fun and a featured performance by the popular band Nine Days. Rain date is 7/5.
- Sand Jam Family Fun Dance from 6:30-8:30pm and Movie Night at 8:45pm at Jennings Beach.
- Fireworks at Compo Beach in Westport. Starts at approximately 9:15pm. Rain date is 7/6.
Sunday, July 4th!
The Atwood Express Oldies Band will play from 5-7pm at Jennings Beach. The Shamrogues from 7-9pm Penfield Pavilion. Fireworks at dark at Jennings Beach. Rain date 7/5.
