Month: May 2016

Fairfield, CT – Sherman Green in downtown Fairfield is slated to host a new farmers market beginning Sunday, June 19 th . The market will be held weekly on Sundays, from 10AM to 2PM, rain or shine, and continue throughout the summer. The market is expected to feature roughly a dozen local farm vendors and producers, offering a diverse array of fresh and seasonal vegetables, fruit, herbs, bread, eggs and fish.

The farmers market is a pilot initiative of the Fairfield Department of Community & Economic Development, in collaboration with local business owner, Bill Auer, of Firehouse Deli. “We are delighted to help bring a farmers market to  downtown Fairfield,” remarked Mark Barnhart, Director of Community & Economic Development, who pitched the idea to the Fairfield Parks & Recreation Commission and secured the necessary approvals. “Bill Auer was really the driving force behind this, and his persistence finally paid off. Bill’s enthusiasm is contagious, and I couldn’t ask for a better partner,” Barnhart added. Bill Auer will serve as Market Master.

“The response from area farmers and producers has been really terrific. We are just so excited to hold a farmers market on Sherman Green, and I think it will be a wonderful addition to the downtown,” stated Bill Auer. Bill added that he is working on a website, which he hopes to profile soon.  For more information, please contact Bill Auer at (203) 520-6408 or via email at thegatesman@aol.com.

 

The Fairfield Public Library will be hosting an author talk with Dick Jorgensen on Tuesday, May 17 at 7:00. He will be discussing his new book, “O Tomodachi” in the Memorial Room of the Main Library, 1080 Old Post Road.

In 1954, as a twenty-nine- year-old grad student, Dick was selected to be one of four “ambassador” teachers in a first-ever exchange program with Japan. He would spend the next two years teaching at the University of Hiroshima, founded in the wake of the dropping of the atomic bomb there in 1945. Dick will take you along on an incredible journey that was also the start of a lifelong love of all things Japanese.

 

Advanced registration is required due to the limited space. All programs at the Fairfield Public Library are free of charge. For more information and to register for this event call 203-256- 3160, or visit us on the web www.fairfieldpubliclibrary.org . Follow the Fairfield Public Library on Twitter: www.twitter.com/fairfieldpublib and Facebook: www.facebook.com/fairfieldlibrary.