Community Corner

Holiday Boutique Friday and Saturday

Plenty of classic and contemporary movies, the annual Holiday Boutique, Broadway tunes and an author's panel on getting published top this weekend's events.

This weekend in and around Greenwich:

  • Apartment for Peggy (1948), 8 p.m. Friday at Greenwich Library (doors open at 7:40 p.m.), — "with Jeanne Crain, William Holden, Edmund Gwenn, Gene Lockhart. Directed by George Seaton. Young marrieds move in with a college instructor who is convinced his best years are behind him. Their enthusiasm rubs off and creates this delightful paean to life and optimism. Beautiful color highlights this look at postwar adjustments and housing shortages that resonates even today. 99 min." (from Greenwich Library website description) — excerpt — Wikipedia — Rotten Tomatoes —IMDb — Facebook
  • "The annual Holiday Boutique will be held at the Woman’s Club of Greenwich featuring a wide array of merchandise from over 30 different vendors. Festivities include Grandma’s Kitchen and a raffle with many terrific prizes. Proceeds benefit the philanthropies and scholarship fund of the Woman’s Club, a non-profit volunteer organization established in 1910." Friday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. -- an announcement on Greenwich Patch
  • "Friends of Greenwich Library will present a musical for young audiences based on the Caldecott Honor Book Click, Clack, Moo by Doreen Cronin and Betsy Lewin. [...] Recommended for grades K-4. Pick up free assigned seating tickets (limit 6 per person) at the auditorium doors at noon. Return at 1:50 p.m. when doors open." Saturday at Greenwich Library -- from an event listing on Greenwich Patch
  • Frank Mastrone sings Broadway tunes at 8 p.m. Saturday at the Darien Arts Center. "Broadway musicals do nothing better than express love: love lost, unrequited love, and eternal love," Mastrone says.
  • Saturday: "Hear a panel of authors discuss the traditional and non-traditional routes they took to get published. Moderator Laura Toffler-Corrie, author of The Life and Opinions of Amy Finawitz and the newly released, My Totally Awkward Supernatural Crush, will discuss traditional publishing and obtaining an agent. Sari Bodi, author of The Ghost in Allie’s Pool, will talk about working with a small press. Mary Beth Bass, author of Everything You Know, will discuss publishing an e-book. Elizabeth Yu-Gesualdi, author of Broken Road, will talk about the self-publication process. For teens and adults." 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. at the Harry Bennett Branch of Ferguson Library -- an announcement on the Ferguson Library website
  • Pick your motion pictures for this weekend using Greenwicyh Patch's guide to movies playing in the area: Links to official websites for movies, trailers, film websites and Moviefone's schedules all on one page.






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