Happenings Down The Hill: 04/13 Open House Art Benefit For Mill Museum

Open House
To benefit The Windham Textile and History Museum
Sunday April 13, 2014 2 - 4 p.m.
156 Windham Center Rd., Windham, CT

Andy Wyeth will be present to share his new painting “Floodgate at Old No. 3 on the Willimantic River”   Prints of this will be available in June. The popular Wyeth prints “Mill Girl at No. 4” and “American Thread Mills” will be available and Mr. Wyeth will be delighted to sign them.

The museum has always offered any Windham teacher or class free educational tours led by one of our local historians, Bev York. Over 25 years she had conducted 5,000 students through our buildings. The museum supports this effort by fundraisers of this type.   In addition the Paint the Museum Fund is halfway to its $25,000 goal to begin work this May. Please donate as generously as you can.   Hors d’oeuvres and beverages Silent Auction Items include several specialty dinners by our area’s finest cooks, personalized patio planters, a 1910 Cadillac Car Tour with a fine lunch, Campfire and Cocktails, a Bev York apple pie and more. Bid high, bid often. Park creatively on Jerusalem Road.      

Please take Rte. 203 from the intersection of Rte. 32 approx 1.5 miles and take right to park creatively on Jerusalem Rd   Hosted by Virginia Fulton and Murphy Sewall 156 Windham Center Rd. Windham, CT

This information is provided by Diana Perkins representing the Mill Museum and is posted by Peter Leeds representing events "down the hill" from Mansfield and Storrs in Windham and Willimantic.