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One of New Canaan’s best-loved community events, May Fair at St. Mark’s, is coming Friday, May 8 and Saturday, May 9 (there’s also a White Elephant tag sale preview party on May 7). There are opportunities to volunteer and donate to the hugely popular White Elephant tag sale. (All May Fair details can be found here.)
We talked to event Chair John Kennedy Jr. this week about this year’s May Fair. Here’s a transcript of our conversation.
It was Eric Rehnberg who crossed over most successfully in third grade, our first year at East School. They’d closed Center School after the 1982-83 academic year, and our friend group got separated in the redistricting, never to fully re-form. Eric and I ended up at East, along with Alex Carles, Kristen Gannalo, David Palmer, Linda Pierson, Christina Mullin and Jenny Rubinfeld. Somehow that first year at East, Eric found the courage to ask the cutest girl in our class, a new face to us Center Schoolers—Joanna Avgerinos—to May Fair, and she said yes. I was in awe.
One of New Canaan’s most beloved community events, May Fair, is marking its 75th year this weekend. It kicks off with Friday Night Lights (5 to 10 p.m.) and runs 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday. We put some questions to May Fair Committee chair John Kennedy, Jr. ahead of the big fair on the St. Mark’s green.
Here’s our exchange. ***
New Canaanite: May Fair arrives Friday and Saturday, and it’s a special 75th anniversary year.