Aura Lee Emsweller FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Duncan Hall Executive Director March 18, 2008
(765) 742-4788
auralee@duncanhall.org

Come Find Your Recycled Treasure at Duncan Hall

The Treasure Sale at Thomas Duncan Hall on Friday and Saturday April 11 and 12 from 8am to 3pm each day will be recycling at its finest. The more than 30 board members will be offering gently used treasures from their and their friends’ homes. There will be a ballroom filled with antiques, home decorative items, china, books, toys, small furnishings, jewelry, linens, and lighting fixtures and much more. There will even be a never worn wedding gown for sale. Proceeds will go towards the preservation of this historic community treasure and support the hall’s educational programs for children.

The hall will also be providing tours of its newly remodeled and expanded East Kitchen, in part funded by a bequest from Richard and Violet Road.

There has been a lot of recycling at Duncan Hall lately. The hall donated its old kitchen counters and cabinets to Habitat for Humanity (Contact Larry Miller, 426-7204) New stage curtains were made possible by a grant from the Community Foundation of Greater Lafayette and some of the old gold velvet curtain fabric was recently donated back to the Purdue University Theater Department, to possibly make costumes. (Contact Megan Santos, PU Theater Dept. 494-3090) Purdue actually first gave the curtains to Duncan Hall in the 1970’s, when a stage on campus was renovated.

Lafayette Transitional Housing will receive a recycled upright piano from the hall, for the enjoyment of their residents. (Contact Jennifer Layton, Executive Director 423-4880)

Come find your recycled treasures at Duncan Hall, located at 619 Ferry St. Go to www.duncanhall.org or call (765) 742-4788 for more details.