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Timeshare Silent Auction to Benefit Westhampton Library Project
The folks who brought flamingos flocking to the library, lounging
for literacy and the great pumpkin roll have created another
unique fundraising event to benefit the Friends of Westhampton
Memorial Library Town Center Library Project. A generous couple
in town have offered all proceeds from the sale of their timeshare
week to the building project. The Friends of the Library have
organized a silent auction to sell the timeshare to the highest
bidder by July 31, 2008.
The donated timeshare is a two bedroom unit at Oak N’ Spruce in
South Lee, MA. Because the timeshare week is the second week in
August, the winning bidder could use their new unit this year and
every year after. According to Thecia Hancewicz, a building
project steering committee member, “Chances to win a weekend stay
at someone’s timeshare are fairly common in fund raising
auctions. What we are offering is the opportunity to own a
timeshare at a bargain price!”
Ann Tracy, another steering committee member, is taking all bids
by mail, phone or email. Contact information, along with more
information about the timeshare unit and the resort, is available
on the Friends of the Library website
www.librarywesthampton.org, under “Town Center Project,” or
call 413-527-9132. The bidding is already open, and a minimum bid
of $3,000 is required. All bidders will receive prompt updates as
the bidding progresses. The auction of this timeshare is not
restricted to Westhampton residents only. The proximity of Oak N’
Spruce and its “country club” policy of allowing owners to use the
resort amenities on a day basis, not just during their week, make
it a unique local getaway.
Blueberry Festival in Westhampton Planning for July underway!!!
The Westhampton Congregational
Church will hold its annual Blueberry Festival on Saturday July
26, 2008. There will be only one seating of 100 people at 6:00
p.m. in the church dining room. The menu for the meal includes: a
blueberry juice toast; blueberry muffins; Virginia baked ham with
pineapple; potato salad; green beans; chilled sliced cucumbers;
homemade blueberry pie a la mode. Prices are: Adults - $10.00;
Children - $6.00; with donation: Adults - $6.00; Children: $3.00.
This year the dinner will feature Blueberry Trivia with little known
facts about “the blues” and someone will go home with a FREE
blueberry pie! This Westhampton summer-time tradition is well known
for its delicious food, especially blueberry pies and neighborly
hospitality. Some Westhamptonites have family members who have
worked on the festival for 3 or more generations. Proceeds from the
dinner benefit the Women’s Fellowship which supports many church
projects and expenses. Reservations: Suzanne Wolf, 203-3026 by 7/23;
if no answer leave a message. SEE YOU THERE!!!
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Westhampton Historical Society - Sampler Exhibit at the Blacksmith Shop Museum
Virginia
Shafer, of Michigan, will soon be publishing her extensive research
into the Pittsinger family. A copy of her original research article
is available at the Westhampton Library. Virginia attended our 225th
celebration, and feels very connected to our town. She has traced
Johannes Petzinger from his birth in Germany in 1751 to his death in
Westhampton in 1823. Having been drafted into the Hessen Artillery
Company at the age of 25 and swearing a second allegiance to King
George III, Johannes fought in the American Revolution – on the side
of the British. He was transported to Canada, a journey of nearly
four months, where he joined other British and German troops
fighting the Americans in campaigns on Lake Champlain and in the
upper Hudson River Valley of New York. Johannes was captured with
many other Hessian soldiers in 1877 at the Battle of Bennington and
was marched back to Hampshire County as a prisoner. When the war
was over, Johannes settled in the town of Chesterfield, where he had
been held. In 1783, he married a Westhampton girl named Rhoda
French, and purchased land in town from her father, a resident since
1770. John
and Rhoda had twenty-eight grandchildren, among them, Rosena
Pittsinger. She was seven years old when Johannes died. In 1827,
at the age of eleven, she created a beautifully stitched sampler.
That recovered Pittsinger sampler, discovered last year in a
Vermont antiques store, will visit We sthampton
this summer. Barbara Kelly, great-great-great-granddaughter of the
sampler’s creator, Rosena Pittsinger, will display it at the
Blacksmith Shop Museum on Sunday, June 15th from 1-3
p.m. The Historical Society invites others to bring their samplers,
old or new, to display, as well. If you don’t know what a sampler
is, or to see one online, go to:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-stitch
For more information
about the June 15th display, contact Barbara Pelissier at
527-3209.
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