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Norwalk Citizen-News, Friday, December 26, 1997 A5Clamdigging Around RowaytonBY JEANNE BENDER/838 2204The Wiggins Sisters will he featured performers Saturday at the Good Folk Coffeehouse in the Rowayton United Methodist Church building, corner of Rowayton Avenue and Pennoyer Street. Coffee house doors open at7:30 p.m.. w ith an open mike at 8 p.m. and the Wiggins Sisters at 9:15 p.m. The $10 admissionincludes light entrees and home-baked desserts. The Wiggins Sisters. Mizzy and Casey, vary in style with folk, country and blues.The Rowayton Historical Society will hold an open house at Pinkney House from 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday. An old-fashioned Christmas tree, antique toys and a dollhouse containing furniture going back four generations of the same familywill be featured.A progress report on Pinkney Garden and an acknowledgement of the families and groups thathave made the garden possible w ill be given out and posted on the Rowayton Library bulletin board.The garden is about half planted now. The saltwater-friendly plants, selected by Victorian garden historian Penny Havard, are representative of a turn-of-the-cen-tury New England riverside garden. More donations are needed to complete the community garden. Supporters may contribute in their family name, the name of a child, relative or friend or as memorials. The garden committee is working on ways to make an outdoordonors' acknowledgement waterproof. For information, call Flo Pettus. garden committee chairperson, 838-1673.My Most Memorable Moment will be a time of sharing andremembrance Tuesday at the Noon Senior Luncheon meeting at the Meeting House of the United Church of Rowayton. All area seniors are invited. Bring your own lunch. Dessert and coffee will be served.A program about Famous American Gardeners will be held at the Jan. 8 meeting of the Rowayton Gardeners beginning at 9:15 a.m. at the Community Center. Featured gardeners and landscape designers will includeThomas Jefferson, Fletcher Steele, Celia Thaxter and Beatrice Farrand. There will be an artistic design bench show, Tea for Two.” open only to novices who have never won first place at a Rowayton Gardeners bench show.NORWALK CITIZEN-NEWS photo / Bryce VickmarkParticipants in the Nativity Pageant held at the grounds of Rowayton School last Sunday include, back row, cape bearer Cole Morrison, 12; gift bearer Philip McMahon, 11; “Mary, ” Jessica Raleigh, 10; “Joseph, ” Doug Ruhnke, 10; special angel Katherine Killeffer; head townsperson Brett Bishop, 10; and gift bearer Brian de Regt, 11. Front row: king Pete Ranges ,11; king Michael Knox, 11; king Matt Ruhnke, 12; and cape bearer Ben Farrow, 11.
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Norwalk Citizen News
Norwalk, Connecticut, US
Fri, Dec 26, 1997
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