Festival co-founder Susan Simon, Colin Stair and Literacy Fund co-founder Chris Jones
By: Amy Krzanik of Rural Intelligence
This year, the Hudson Children’s Book Festival (HCBF) is celebrating its 10th anniversary, and the Fest’s Literacy Fund is marking its sixth year helping the city’s kids attend and purchase a book of their choice at the event. The group’s annual cocktail party fundraiser again was held at Stair Galleries this past Saturday, March 24. To show how the Fund has grown, its co-founder Susan Simon related to the crowd how the first year’s party raised enough to give away around 300-400 book vouchers, while last year The Fund gave away vouchers for 1,850 books. The HCBF Literacy Fund also works to help Hudson’s school libraries stock their shelves, an ongoing project that was able to donate 700 books just this past year alone. This year’s big Festival will occur on Saturday, May 5, with featured author Kwame Alexander.
Maria Suttmeier, Hudson City School District superintendent and HCBF co-founder, with Hudson gallerist Carrie Haddad
Bridget Smith, a Literacy Fund board member, with the Fest’s co-founder and co-director Lisa Dolan and art dealer Tom Swope
Lisa Dolan, Tessy Keller, Gene Stone, Chris Hays and Jay Neuschatz.
Tony Jones, Pooky Amsterdam, board member Martha McMaster, Mark Prezorski, senior vice president at The Olana Partnership, Chris Jones and Agi Clark
https://ruralintelligence.com/parties/the-hcbf-literacy-fund-toasts-to-ten-years
