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Now Available! Flamingo Posters and Pink Flamingos-perfect for spicing up your cold season landscape.
You can pick up your beautiful eco-print of featured members of the flamingo flock or an actual lawn ornament to adorn your home at the library, by clicking on a Buy Now button below, or by sending us an email and we'll send you ordering information.
FLAMINGO POSTER: Just $10.00 (plus shipping)
FLAMINGO LAWN ORNAMENT: Just $10.00 (plus shipping)
All profits from poster & flamingo sales go towards supporting the library.
PAST EVENTS
Third Annual Fall Festival!
Sunday, October 19, 2008
What a wonderful day!
Our treasured autumn tradition drew flocks of people from throughout New England.
In
addition to the Great Pumpkin Roll, this year’s Festival featured lots
of attractions from traditional activities and
demonstrations, such as blacksmithing, woodman’s demonstration, cider
making, Indian corn shucking, and children’s crafts, to a few unusual
events, such as cow pie bingo and sheep dogs that herded ducks and the
demonstration of a homemade catapult that hurled squash and melon
hundreds of feet.
Flock to the Library
Saturday, May 17, 2008
"America’s largest gathering of imaginatively decorated plastic pink flamingos.” Hundreds of outrageous, elegant, and funky flamingos flocked to the parsonage lawn in their best digs where they were admired by all. Flamingo croquet, some rather daring pink outfits (on the humans), pink cotton candy, and a fantastic flamingo cake (donate by Big Y...thanks!) rounded out the sunny Saturday.
The event, says organizer Laurie Sanders, was partly a fundraiser for Westhampton’s library campaign, but also a way to “whimsically demonstrate that libraries play important roles in our communities – beyond lending books. They’re also places where art, culture and community-building come together,” she said.
Click here (pdf) to read an article in the Republican about the event.
Blossoms, Books, and Backrubs
Saturday, May 17, 2008
You wouldn't believe the variety of plants available at a fraction of what you'd pay at the nursery. Gardeners from across the region traveled to browse and take advantage of these beautiful botanical bargains. But the plants and book sales (donated volumes that overflowed our tiny library shelves) are only the memoir to carry home with you, the delicious baked goods and the backrubs...oh the backrubs! This year you could even have a full body massage thanks to the donated time and gentle energy of our gifted local masseurs. Makes you wish this happened every weekend...
Mardi Gras Party with the Gypsy Wranglers
Saturday, February 2, 2008
A wonderful time was had by all! Thanks to everyone who helped set up, clean up, and dance all night long in celebration of our work.
Click here (pdf) for pictures from the cooking fest before the party.
2nd Annual Fall Festival
October, 2007
Around 1,000 people passed through during the day to celebrate autumn in old country style.
Lounging for Literacy
June, 2007
We set a world record for the most people every reading together in lounge chairs!
1st Annual Fall Festival
October, 2006
Over 200 Westhamptonites gathered in the Town Center on Sunday, October 15 for the Fall Festival. This was a wonderful way to enjoy our town center's open space and historic buildings. Highlights included squash slinging via Andy Tracy's real life catapult (Trebuchet), homemade donuts made fresh by the Montague family, a reading by Carol Weis of her children's book When the Cows got Loose, a visual stake out of the proposed new library building (and the locations of the septic systems and tanks for the current library and Town Hall--not much room for expansion there), an historical exhibit, Indian corn husking and tying (boy are they beautiful), cider making, a scarecrow contest with over 20 entrants, an antique/vintage car show, free food grilled up by Westhampton's grilling champions, the great pumpkin roll down stage road (one pumpkin made it all the way past the horse barn at Southampton Road), and music around a bonfire that lasted into the deep dark of that beautifully chilly fall evening. Thanks to Janice Tracy for spear heading this wonderful event. With everyone's support in passing the Town Center Library Project, we can acquire the office space we need, protect open land in the center of town, preserve the historic character of our Town Center by securing the parsonage (a building with a rich and worthy history), and make the Fall Festival an annual event! Click here to see some pictures from the 2006 Fall Festival. 
In
addition to the Great Pumpkin Roll, this year’s Festival featured lots
of attractions from traditional activities and
demonstrations, such as blacksmithing, woodman’s demonstration, cider
making, Indian corn shucking, and children’s crafts, to a few unusual
events, such as cow pie bingo and sheep dogs that herded ducks and the
demonstration of a homemade catapult that hurled squash and melon
hundreds of feet. 
