Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Princeton Presents 2020 UUCP Fellowship Auction Auction Catalog 02-29-2020 • 5 - 7 pm 50 Cherry Hill Rd. • Princeton, NJ 08540-7626 Phone: 609-924-1604 Email: [email protected] Vacations 400 Canadian Get Away Quantity: 1 Enjoy a week at a 2-bedroom, 2.5 baths, townhouse at the Mont Tremblant Resort, nestled in the St. Laurentian mountains NW of Montreal in Quebec, Canada. 2 bedrooms with queen beds, plus new pull out couch in the living room. Wood burning fireplace, full kitchen, wifi, washer, dryer. Lots to do with mountains at your doorstep and a lake to play in as well. Hike, bike, snowshoe and ski, fish, swim, canoe, spend time at a spa or golf. Or, ignore it all and nestle in and bury yourself in a few good books. A 9-hour drive from NJ or fly to Montreal and drive northwest. See: www.tremblant.com. High chair, Pack and Play, and stairway gate available. Sleeps 4 - 6 Must be used by February 13, 2021. Donor: Sharon Copeland & Dave Hoffman Minimum Bid: $750.00 Buy-It-Now: $1,800.00 401 Cape May Get Away Quantity: 1 Cozy Cape May house has two bedrooms (one – queen, one - 2 twins), one bathroom, full kitchen, and a deck with a grill. Village Green section by the Coast Guard Station, 8 blocks from the beach. Sleeps 4. Bring your own linens. The 1st weekend of April, May or June, 2019 Donor: Mary Ann & Josh Koslov Minimum Bid: $100.00 Buy-It-Now: $600.00 Friday, February 28th, 2020 Page 2 of 24 Dinners, Meals & Parties! 100 8 Treasure Chinese American Dinner Quantity: 6 Come for an 8 course Chinese inspired dinner. Bring an adventurous palette is all we ask. Vegan and Vegetarian tweaking available. Will hold on a mutually agreed upon Saturday evening in the Fall 2020. Donor: Hannah Born Yu & John Yu Minimum Bid: $35.00 Buy-It-Now: $150.00 101 Champagne High Tea Quantity: 5 Think of this more as an early dinner.and come hungry, happy to scarf down salads, and fruited delights, as well as tiny sandwiches and scones with cream, and of course desserts! All washed down with hot tea and other libations (the high part. ). Calories don't count on Sundays, or when eaten off of fancy china, didn't you know? Many items will be gluten free, and vegetarian or nut-free can be arranged as well -- but sorry, we need dairy in mix. Our table will be dressed to the max, but you can come as slovenly as you'd like! British accents and hats optional. Donor: Louise Senior & Dunbar Birnie Minimum Bid: $30.00 Sign-up Price: $150.00 102 Pan European Delight Quantity: 6 A convivial relaxed dinner sampling culinary delights from across Europe. Anchored in Greek moussaka, the selections will derive from various traditions across the continent. Shared stories and laughter will spice all dishes! Donor: Candus Hedberg, Frances L. Prestianni Date: 4/18/2020 Time: 6-9PM Minimum Bid: $25.00 Sign-up Price: $150.00 103 To Your Health! Quantity: 10 Come welcome Spring and toast to good health! The jury is still out on the various health claims of wine drinking, but let’s taste a selection of the Californian ‘FitVine’ wines that purport to be healthier for us. You may have seen them on the shelves -- let's quaff them together and see what we think. We’ll sip a selection of different whites and reds crafted to be lower in sugar and sulfites made from pesticide-free, grapes. We’ll also include a few favorite reds NOT from FitVine – for comparison since we want to be sure to enjoy our quaffs (even though we’re drinking for our health {wink, wink}). Donor: Louise Senior & Dunbar Birnie Minimum Bid: $35.00 Buy-It-Now: $150.00 104 A Signature Evening of Quilts and Dinner Quantity: 10 Your host has been a quilter for 30 years and taught quilt classes at guilds, museums (and UUCP), but she is also a quilt collector and authority on the topic. Formerly the president of a national nonprofit devoted to quilt history, she is now on the board of the International Quilt Museum in Lincoln, Nebraska and a staff writer for Quiltfolk, a stunning new magazine that covers the quilt culture of a single state in each issue. Come enjoy a delicious dinner and immerse yourself in quilts: a tour of her quilt studio, see highlights of own work and collection, then learn how to make a special signature quilt to celebrate the evening. Learn how to organize a signature quilt for future major events such as milestone birthdays, graduations and weddings. One lucky guest will win the signature quilt you make as a group! Donor: Meg Cox Leone Date: 4/3/2020 Time: Minimum Bid: $40.00 Buy-It-Now: $150.00 Friday, February 28th, 2020 Page 3 of 24 105 Alsatian Feast Quantity: 6 The Alsatians, perched on the French/German border, claim the best of both cuisines: French quality and German quantity. Their wines are mighty fine, too. Come for a simple, but bodacious, Alsatian dinner. Not for the faint of heart – nor for vegetarians. We will begin eating when you arrive, for the Alsatian's “never eat on an empty stomach.” Donor: Carl H. & Carol S. Haag Date: 3/14/2020 Time: 6 PM Minimum Bid: $35.00 Sign-up Price: $150.00 106 Brie and Gris in the Key of G Quantity: 50 Leave your cares behind, meet new and endlessly interesting fellow UUs, while sipping wine, nibbling cheese and grooving to the jazzy tunes of the Jeffrey Fadden Trio. Donor: Beth Behrend & Robert Eaton Date: 4/18/2020 Time: 7PM Sign-up Price: $20.00 107 Come for the Halibut (or Swordfish!) Quantity: 6 Swordfish or halibut (sometimes one is not available) on the grill with other delights, including vegetarian options. Donor: Sharon Copeland & Dave Hoffman Date: 6/7/2020 Time: 6PM Minimum Bid: $25.00 Buy-It-Now: $150.00 108 Delizioso Ferragosto Quantity: 8 Ferragosto is a brief Italian holiday, around mid-August, dedicated to a) religion; b) libation; c) the end of agricultural field work; or d) a good time for a party. this Ferragosto will focus on b) and d) and include antipasti, primo and second piatti, and drink from Sicily and southern Italy. One of your hosts’ grandparents emigrated from small towns in the province of Messina, Sicily; the other host loves to eat and drink. Come early if you want to participate in preparation. Come really early if you want to be involved in the agricultural field work. Lovely Garden!! Donor: Betsy Marshall & George DiFerdinando Date: 9/21/2020 Time: TBD Minimum Bid: $50.00 Buy-It-Now: $150.00 109 Dinner with a side of Indian Mythology Quantity: 10 An evening with dinner and stories from Indian Mythology. Immerse yourself in comic books based on stories from the Ramayana and Mahabharata. Donor: Aparna & Farooq Zama Date: 3/28/2020 Time: 6PM Minimum Bid: $25.00 Buy-It-Now: $150.00 110 Holiday Cookie Swap Quantity: 20 Bring 4 doz cookies of a single variety, taste and socialize with some of the best conversationalists ever (UUs!) over coffee/tea, and bring home 6 dozen assorted cookies. Includes Teresa's famous Almond Toffee Crunch! Saturday afternoon in December at UUCP depending on congregational events to be scheduled. Donor: Teresa S. Stevens & Christopher S. Davis Sign-up Price: $10.00 Friday, February 28th, 2020 Page 4 of 24 111 Let's Talk Politics Quantity: 10 Lovely dinner with a dynamic speaker; a US history and government teacher who will discuss the likely policy outcomes given four different election scenarios: Republican president, Republican Senate; Republican president, Democratic Senate; Democratic president, Republican Senate; Democratic president, Democratic Senate. Learn and eat.A mutually agreed-upon fall weekend. Donor: Elizabeth & Stephen Silverman Minimum Bid: $35.00 Buy-It-Now: $150.00 112 Marrakesh Express Quantity: 8 Enjoy this Moroccan dinner that includes some real delicacies: a phyllo pastry appetizer called Bisteeya, chicken with preserved lemons and olives, a tagine of fresh vegetables, special Moroccan bread, and for dessert, "the snake," an almond confection not to be missed. We'll be Moroccan around the clock ??? ???? Donor: Theodore & Jane Fetter Date: 5/17/2020 Time: 6 PM Minimum Bid: $50.00 Sign-up Price: $150.00 113 Moth Stories UU Style Quantity: 20 The power of storytelling can transport us, heal us, and bind us to one another. Join us for our own UU version of The Moth Radio Hour, an evening devoted to sharing personal stories. Enjoy a wine and cheese spread and fill your heart as you listen to stories or tell your own. Our theme for the evening will be chemistry. Story tellers should come prepared to share a personal story describing a time in their lives where chemistry played a role—Love or friendship? Cooking or career? A spontaneous combustion moment? In true “Moth” style, we will pick 10 people to tell stories and will keep stories to a maximum of five minutes each. No scripts, no props, no stress. Maybe a few tears, definitely lots of laughter. Not sure what The Moth is? Go to https://themoth.org/share-your-story for more info and to listen to episodes. Donor: Francesca Vollaro, Jeanne Jackson DeVoe, Linda Joy Miller Date: 6/13/2020 Time: 7-9 Sign-up Price: $30.00 114 Murder on the Grill Quantity: 8 July 1959 – a time of rock ’n’ roll, hula hoops and hot rods.