KENNEBUNK — The New School has received a gift from the estate of Lynn Collins of 1,700 pounds of quilt fabric. 

The fabrics are fine cotton in a multitude of colors, prints and many sizes and the school will host a fabric sale to  support The New School Intensive Studies Program.

The sale will be conducted from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 10 at The New School, 38 York St. Kennebunk, a short distance south of the town center on Route 1. 

Soup and salad will be available at lunch time as sorting through all that lovely fabric could take quite a while.

Fabric will sell at $3 to $4 a yard.  Since there are three yards in a pound, the sale will actually be $10 a pound.  Beyond 10 pounds there will be a 10 percent discount.  All the fabric is valued at $8 to $12 a yard.

The New School is an independent, democratic high school in Kennebunk. 

The Intensive Study Program is a three-week adventure in learning in a challenging environment.  This year one group of students will work on a farm in Florida, helping recovery from the hurricanes. 

A second group will travel to Oaxaca Mexico for immersion Spanish, learning about pre-Colombian history and volunteer work. 

The third group will study the physics of the circus and other practical and adventurous applications of physics.

For more information about the Quilt Fabric Sale, call 985-3745 or send an e-mail to thenewschool@tnsk.org.