The Annual Mark Twain Book Fair is Labor Day Weekend, August 30 – September 2. Daily from
9am to 5pm. Redding Community Center, Lonetown Road (Route 107) Redding
CT. Free parking, no admission fee, bargains abound, air-conditioned
comfort, handicapped accessible, refreshments sold.
The Mark Twain Library Book Fair is the oldest – and one of the largest –
in New England. The library was founded by Samuel Clemens, - a.k.a. Mark
Twain – in 1908. And the Book Fair is still one of the
library's principal fundraisers.
This fund raising concept goes back to the very beginning.
Coley Taylor described the
early days of the fair in 1985:
"Mark Twain donated a
large number of books from his own collection to the library. They were
housed in the seldom used old chapel facing the ancient but still used
Umpawaug Cemetery. A librarian was on hand Wednesday and Saturday
afternoons. Twain secured donations from many friends, including Andrew
Carnegie, and publishers. At a meeting to promote the library on October
7, 1908, he read a statement that he had composed for the occasion.
There
was a woman's group that met fairly often to sew clean strips of rags
of all colors and fabrics for making braided rugs to sell at an annual
fair for the library building fund. We children went to the meetings
too; there were no baby-sitters then; we could roll the long strips into
balls. It was my job to turn the ice-cream freezer for the cake-and-ice
cream binge later.
The annual fair was held in August to attract
the summer people, who would leave for their homes by Labor Day. There
were not many in Redding but the lake resorts near Danbury and a noted
summer colony in nearby Ridgefield provided the necessary crowds,
together with local residents. All kinds of things were sold at the
fair: cakes, pies, jellies, pickles, canned fruits in glass jars,
salads, the rag rugs, and second hand furniture, which was grabbed up as
antiques. A long picnic table under a tent was loaded with food,
provided luncheon for the guests- at a price, of course."
http://www.marktwainlibrary.org/8support-folder/book-fair.htm
Tuesday, August 27
The Mark Twain Book Fair
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