Under tents erected next to the venerable Hotchkiss Library of Sharon overlooking the town green, some three dozen authors signed copies of their books for shoppers with the proceeds benefiting the library. Many guests said they were stockpiling books to give as Christmas gifts.

Author Betsy Howie of Falls Village with Lisa Holton, former president of Scholastic Book Clubs


Novelist Roxana Robinson and Randall de Sève; Ed Herrington with Janis Cronk.

John Rosselli watches as his wife, Bunny Williams, signs a copy of Bunny Williams's Point of View.


Betsy Palmer, co-founder of The Hotchkiss Library of Sharon's Summer Book Signing beneft, with Michelle Ores of the Isabella Freedman Jewish Retreat Center; Andrew Gates of Little Gates and Jody Potter.

Gardener Eric Ruquist and Jay Jolly
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Matteline deVries-Dilling, founder of Lite Brite Neon, one of the evening's honoree of this year's Upstate Benefit adresses the gala from the Caboose's caboose.
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Olana senior vice president and landscape curatorMark Prezorski, president Sean Sawyer, The evenings honoree Kristin Gamble and New York State Assemblymember Didi Barrett.
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