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Quaker Book
Fair opens Saturday, July 11th!
Food
Trucks come to Westport Rivers Vineyard.
The WFA Striped Bass and Bluefish Fishing
Tournament will run from July 9th – 18th, 2015.
Quaker Book Fair opens
Saturday, July 11th! The Westport
Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) announces their
54th Annual Book Fair featuring over 25,000 books for sale. EverythingWestport.com Thursday,
June 25, 2015 The Westport
Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) announces their
54th Annual Book Fair featuring over 25,000 books for sale. The Fair opens on
Saturday, July 11th at 938 Main Road, Westport when the ropes drop and the book-buying
crowd rushes the tents! On-going through
July 19th, open "dawn to dusk." Click here for video of 52nd Book Fair. Click here for short video of 50th
Book Fair! The Westport
Friends are hoping to fill their benches, not with their usual worshippers,
but with over 25,000 gently-used books for sale. The Westport Friends' Book Fair serves as
the main fundraising event of the Westport Monthly Meeting of the Religious
Society of Friends (Quakers) and will take place on their grounds at 938 Main
Road in Westport, Massachusetts. The
Book Fair officially opens at 11:00 a.m. (rain or shine) but will continue
"dawn to dusk" throughout the week. Over the past
fifty-four years, the Westport Friends' Book Fair has become a summer
tradition on the South Coast with visitors traveling from all over Massachusetts, and even the country, to attend
this record-breaking sale. Generations of families share in the delight of
discovering lost literary gems at bargain-basement prices. Gretchen
Baker-Smith, Property Coordinator for the Westport Friends and member since
1989, calls the Book Fair, "A labor of love" for the local
community. "I enjoy seeing how passionate people get when they find an
unusual book on a subject they love...It really makes my day." After so many
decades, it is understandable that many myths and traditions surround the
Westport Friends' Book Fair. It is rumored that, in the early years, one
book-browser discovered a first edition of Moby Dick which sold for fifty-cents. Traditions include the
honorary "Blowing of the Whistle" to signal the official opening of
the book sale, and the annual night-before-book-sale "Chopping of the Tabbouleh"
which is sold to the public every year (along with other luncheon items). The Book Fair
officially opens at 11:00 a.m. but the 6-for-a-dollar paperbacks can be
purchased starting at 10:00 a.m. with the children’s book section opening
exclusively for kids at 10:45 a.m. Rain
or shine, the Book Fair will continue through Sunday, July 19 and will be
open from "dawn to dusk." Prices range from one dollar to
five dollars a book with the average cost being $1.50. Light lunch, snacks, and beverages will be
sold on the opening day of the sale. Book donations
are accepted throughout the year. For more
information please call Greg Marsello, Book Fair
Steering Committee Clerk, at 401.624.9840 or visit www.westportfriendsmeeting.org. Above: Dr. Kirkaldy rings up another
customer! Food
Trucks come to Westport Rivers Vineyard. EverythingWestport.com Thursday, June
25, 2015
Next Saturday
July 4th will feature VESTA Mobile Wood-Fired Pizza. VESTA Mobile
Wood-Fired Pizza was a huge hit at their Open House this past November and they’re
happy to have them back to celebrate the 4th of July here. Whether you choose
to have them custom make you their cheese pizza featuring vine ripened
tomato sauce and mozzarella and provolone cheese or you get a bit
adventurous and try their signature VESTA featuring grilled chicken and bacon
or their BEETZA with fresh roasted beats you are sure to LOVE the end
result…perfect with a glass of wine.
Every Saturday
throughout the summer Westport Rivers Vineyard will feature food that pairs
wonderfully with their wines. EverythingWestport.com Thursday, June
25, 2015 Register Today! Click here for
an application and please mail in with your check made payable to WFA at PO
Box 83 Westport Point MA 02791. Click
here for a complete set of tournament rules. We encourage you to
read carefully prior to registration and we wish you all the Best of Luck! Cash Prizes for 1st Place (largest by weight) $250.00 for Striped Bass
and $100.00 for Bluefish and Super Raffle! With your
registration you will get a tournament T-shirt and meal ticket to their BBQ
reception at The WFA headquarters at 241 East Beach Road, in beautiful
Westport MA. There will be an
award ceremony during the BBQ. Cash Prizes will be awarded for 1st Place (largest
by weight). $250 for the
largest Striped Bass and $100 for the largest Blue Fish. Other prizes will
be awarded for other categories including one for surf casters, women and
kids. They have some terrific prizes lined up for the super raffle. You won’t
want to miss the opportunity to take a chance. Registration fees are Adults $40 and kids
15 and under are $10. So mark your calendars
and plan to join them for what they hope to be a fun for the whole family
event. If you are not a fisherman consider joining them for a great party on
the Saturday, July 18th for $10.00. There are many
ways in which you can help out and get involved by volunteering during the
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