Thanks to your membership dollars, FRIENDS provides assistance to the library both through sponsoring events and through purchases.
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Some annual and fundraising events:
- International Wine and Food Tasting in February
- Tag Sale in June (during Village Sock Hop)
- Crab Fest in September (sometimes with live music)
- Book Sale in September
- Scarecrow Design Contest in October
- General Annual Meeting in November (includes some form of entertainment)
Non-annual occasional/fundraising events:
- Raffles
- Silent Auctions
- Membership teas
- Discussions with authors
- Russian Ballet film and food tasting
- Scarecrow Design workshop in the fall
- Cooking demonstrations at “who’s cooking”
- Publication and sale: Piermont booklet, Three Centuries
- Children’s workshop: valentine cards for soldiers
- Sale: Piermont library book bags
- Two concerts partially funded
- Fakoli African dance and drum
- Rudresh Mahanthappa duo
- Series of Art Lectures
- Silent Auctions
- Book Sales
Museum Memberships
- Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum
- American Museum of Natural History
- Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Purchases for the library
(Responding to Library’s wish list):
- Museum Memberships
- Stacking chairs
- Book deposit box
- Book donation bin
- Disc repair machine
- Dollhouse furniture
- Scroll-down movie screen
- Study carrels and chairs
- Security/protection system
- Flip chairs for children’s room
- Book-and-puppet set for story time
- Gold-lettering signage for teen stacks
- Skid proof coating for Front Porch
- Electronic people counter (at library entrance)
- Funding music and theatre programs
- Sundry items for public facilities
- Freegal – downloadable music
- Bookshelf (partially funded)
- Glass door Display cabinet
- Stack Acrylic sign holders
- Holiday decorations
- Color Laser Printer
- Carpentry work
- Magazine rack
- Landscaping
- Snow Blower
- Tables
- Alarm system
- Media return bin
- Universal Class online continuing education
- Transparent Language Online
