I’m always the best customer at our silent auctions. It is
me, more than anybody else, who is soliciting donations, cataloguing auction
items, printing up certificates, writing content for the program, and finally
corralling all the stuff and getting it down to the event site. So I know what
I want before anybody even gets there.
Three years of CLHOF silent auctions. I’ve got a signed Interrupters poster hanging in my basement
opposite the signed Chris Ware New Yorker
cover. I’ve seen Remy Bummpo’s An Inspector Calls and the Sanfilippo Estate’s
Christmas concert. My son Dusty has a signed Starling Castro picture and a cool
handmade leather bracelet.
We’re at that point where I’m cataloguing what we have and
making last-minute attempts to get more. I’m especially keen on tickets to
Daniel Nearing’s new film Hogtown
premiering at the Siskel Film Centre, and a weekend stay at a hotel in Lake
Geneva. I want the tickets to Native Son
at the Court Theater and the in-home wine tasting certificates. I’m interested in the Lake Claremont Press book basket, and the Dmitry Samarov prints, and the Carl Sandburg pilgrimage to
Galesburg, IL.
But as much as I want to win these and other items, I want
more to be outbid. The money we raise at the Chicago Literary Hall of Fame’s
fourth silent auction on Aug. 24 needs to sustain us as we continue to produce
quality programming and content and generally celebrate our city’s great literary
heritage.
The event is at the Haymarket Pub & Brewery on Aug. 24,
from 5-8 p.m. David Eigenberg is our special guest.
Please buy a ticket, donate an auction item, and come to the
event.
Buy tickets at:
To set up a donation, send me an email at:
Hope to see you there.
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Donald G. Evans is the founder and executive director of the Chicago Literary Hall of Fame. He is the author of the novel Good Money After Bad and short story collection An Off-White Christmas, as well as the editor of the anthology Cubbie Blues: 100 Years of Waiting Till Next Year. He is the Chicago editor of the Great Lakes Cultural Review. He serves on the American Writers Museum's Chicago Literary Council and the committee that selects the Harold Washington Literary Award.
donaldgevans@hotmail.com
donaldgevans@hotmail.com
