Round Hill Community House will celebrate its annual Harvest Supper on Wednesday, Oct. 21, at 6:30p.m. and everyone is invited to share in this traditional evening of family fun.
Neighbors in the Round Hill area have celebrated a harvest supper since the time when back country Greenwich was mainly a farming community. Each fall, after a season of hard work, families would gather together in each other’s homes with produce and turkeys from their fields, which they cooked together as a celebration of the earth’s bounty. In a pre-television age, neighbors met weekly throughout the year for evenings of sociability and in the 1920s, they built the Round Hill Community House with their own hands so they would have a place to gather.
The Harvest Supper continues today, but no longer do neighbors spend days in the kitchen roasting turkeys, mashing potatoes or baking pies. Nevertheless, this year’s Harvest Supper promises friendly company, a sumptuous turkey dinner with all the fixings, and a spirited songfest of traditional songs to close out the evening. Bring your holiday shopping lists, because the artisans from the Round Hill Art Studio will have handcrafted items for sale. The congregation of Round Hill Community Church cordially invites our neighbors to join in the Harvest Supper, to break bread together and rediscover the meaning of community.
The Round Hill Community House is located at 397 Round Hill Road. The cost is $10 per adult, $5 per child. Attendees are also asked to bring a pie or dessert to share.
For further information and reservations, visit roundhillcommunitychurch.org or call 203-869-1091.
