GEORGETOWN
The venerable Georgetown Working League Fair is one of the state’s oldest community events. This year — its 100th — is both a landmark and a break from tradition.
For the first time, the Georgetown Working League Fair will be held not on a Tuesday, but on a Saturday. The big event, at Georgetown Central School, is 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 10.
For its first 99 years, the fair was held on Tuesday because the Georgetown Working League held its business meeting on the second Tuesday of each month.
The event raises nearly $15,000 in support of the town’s fire and ambulance services, its library, and several scholarships.
The first fair in 1913 raised just over $100for the upkeep of the local Baptist church.
At that very same building, across the road from the school, Working League members recently discovered historical material, which has been scanned and loaded onto a disc. The Georgetown Historical Society, located a short distance from the school, has many old photographs.
At 11 a.m., there will be a remembrance of Charlie Goodhue. His family has made prints of some of Goodhue’s paintings, which will be sold.
Goodhue painted in Georgetown for more than 40 years. A graduate of the Massachusetts College of Art and Design and Pratt Institute School of Fine and Applied Arts, he studied with such well known artists as Gordon Grant, Alphonse Shelton, Ed Betts, Valfred Thelin and Henry DeMaine.
At the fair, from 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m., visitors can enjoy a lobster salad and turkey salad luncheon. Georgetown teenagers volunteer their services as waiters and waitresses.
Special for the centennial, there will be a decade-bydecade fashion show, followed by a birthday cake.
The kids’ tent will feature a sing-a-long of familiar tunes with Jill Palmer at 10 and a mixed media art project with Karen Wolfe at 11.
A relay race challenge is set for noon, followed by a greenhouse tour and digging for relics with Deb Thibodeau at 2 and a boat raffle at 3.
For more information, go to www.georgetownwork- ingleague.com.
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