One especially popular area on Thursday’s opening night was a goat pen, where children and adults were welcome to feed, pet, pose for photos with and even practice yoga with four young Nigerian Dwarf goats from Buttinhead Farms in Hunlock Creek. While the auction is a focal point of the 77th annual fund-raiser, the four-day event holds many other features - from a children’s scavenger hunt to story time to a flea market, dozens of baskets, a quilt raffle and vendors of soaps, plants, jewelry, ice cream, lemonade, funnel cakes and much more. The piece will be finished by Sunday, Poncavage said, and will itself be auctioned off. “This is the auction chairman, this is the librarian,” Rodriguez said, pointing out faces that will be incorporated into the painting. “Thirty dollars, thank you!”Īs the bidding warmed up, artists Omar Rodriguez and Julia Poncavage stood sharing an easel, brushes in hand, creating a painting inspired by the scene. “We’ll start with $25, it’s worth more than that …” came the patter from the auctioneer. Xzandria Clark, 9, grins as a young goat from Buttinhead Farms stands on her back during the 77th annual Back Mountain Memorial Library Auction on Thursday.įrom the seat of an old-time school desk to a little statue of a nesting bird, all sorts of items came to the block early Thursday evening as the Back Mountain Memorial Library Auction got under way.

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