The Norwalk Historical Society will hold its third fundraising event on October 23rd to generate funds for its Educational Programs, which benefit Norwalk area school children each year.

The event, titled “An Evening of Historical Proportions”, will be held at Norwalk’s Silvermine Tavern and will feature a silent auction, wine selections from Fountainhead Wines in Norwalk and fine cheeses from Mirabelle in Westport. Many items and services have been generously donated by area businesses and wlll be sold to the highest bidders in the silent auction. In 2008, the event raised thousands of dollars that went to support the Society’s Educational Programs.

This year's auction items include: A Week's Stay in a North Carolina Outer Banks Vacation Home, Historic House Plaquing from NHS, SoNo Baking Company Breakfast and Kitchen Tour, Norwalk Ephemera, and much more.

Norwalk Historical Society Educational Programs allow local third-grade schoolchildren to visit Norwalk’s Mill Hill Historical Park and discover what life in Colonial America was like for Norwalk residents during the18th century. In the "Little Red Schoolhouse" Program, the third-graders tour the 1835 Town House Museum, get to see a costumed re-enactor portray Connecticut Colonial Governor Thomas Fitch and explore the c.1740 Fitch Law Office, and then spend time in the 1820 Little Red Schoolhouse to see what children of the era experienced in their day-to-day lives as students.

For more information, please call the Norwalk Historical Society at (203) 846-0525 or email info@norwalkhistoricalsociety.org or visit the NHS website at www.norwalkhistoricalsociety.org.

Download NHS Membership Form here