What do Byrd’s Books owner Alice Hutchinson and Newtown author and blogger Elissa Altman think of Ann Leary’s latest novel? If you don’t already have dinner plans for July 13, you may be in luck. The New York Times best-selling author Leary will be joined by Altman and Hutchinson for a discussion about The Foundling over dinner or appetizers and dessert, next Wednesday night. The authors program begins at 7 pm, but the dinner part comes due to the fact that the special event is being presented at Edison Kitchen, 186 Greenwood Avenue in Bethel. A limited number of 6 pm dinner reservations are available; visit https://conta.cc/3n2vMNL for details. If you’d like to drop in for just the author program, contact Byrd’s Books at 203-730-2973 or ByrdsBooks.com.

In other reader news, former Reed Intermediate School library/media specialist Pia Ledina, who owns Turning The Page, 477 Main Street, Monroe, has a summer reading Bingo challenge. She has a Bingo challenge for students in first to twelfth grade and a separate Bingo challenge for adults. Print out the bookstore’s Bingo sheets online, then try to complete a “blackout” by completing every challenge by August 20. I hear there will be winners ... with three $25 gift certificates up for the younger reader challenge. Print out the younger reader challenge online at files.constantcontact.com/a6799c8c701/950d0ac0-fcdc-4d45-8740-b60dbb9a8e67.pdf?rdr=true and the adult reading challenge online at files.constantcontact.com/a6799c8c701/e75f0d7b-27a5-4314-9055-28d593b4e8e6.pdf?rdr=true. Some of the Bingo tiles are “read a book set in Connecticut,” “read outside at a park or beach,” and “read a banned book.”

It’s that time of year. All drivers should be on the lookout, with cash at the ready, to not miss a lemonade stand, like the one hosted by Aubrey Ferreira, pictured left, and Maren Rio, right, on June 28. The duo planned their lemonade stand for roughly a week and prepped lemonade, fresh cookies, and fresh brownies for it. They set it up on the corner of Tilson Lane and Pearl Street in Sandy Hook.

Then I hear there was a very successful Fourth of July lemonade stand on Old Bridge Road. Pictured from left at the stand are Emmie Drummond, MacKenzie Drummond, Jack Krompinger, Molly Krompinger, and Rory Krompinger. The kids sold cups of lemonade to passersby, including two Newtown Police Department officers.

Governor Lamont last week announced the return of CT Free Summer at the Museum, which grants free admission to children ages 18 and under — and one accompanying adult Connecticut resident — to visit participating museums through September 5. Museums across the state, in all eight counties, are participating, including EverWonder Children’s Museum right here in Newtown. Museums, including historic house museums, historic sites, historical societies, art museums, children’s museums, science centers, special interest museums, natural history museums, university museums, arboretums/botanical gardens, and zoos are all participating. Visit CTSummerMuseum.com for the full list, and each museum’s visiting requirements. EverWonder, for instance, requires online reservations for the CT Free tickets; visit everwondermuseum.simpletix.com to do so. The museum is at 31 Pecks Lane, and reservations are for timed entry.

Work is underway in the process of switching over grass to turf on part of the back field area behind Newtown High School. Check the sports section for photos of the early stages of the process.

Do you know someone who has lived in Newtown all their life? Or do you have a new neighbor that just moved to town? Both people — as well as everyone in between — would make a great person to be featured in The Newtown Bee’s Snapshot profile. Reach out to reporter Alissa Silber by e-mail at Alissa@thebee.com to recommend someone who lives and/or works in Newtown. It is a fun way to get to know people and learn more about what makes the Newtown community so special. See page two of this week’s print edition to read about Newtown resident Jane Gadbut.

Newtown resident Donald Studley reached out this week to congratulate The Newtown Bee on its 145th anniversary, as covered in last week’s print edition, and to offer kudos for our “new look.” Donald and Marg Studley have been reading the paper for 52 years, and his family has been covered in our pages for almost 120 years. Donald has the evidence to prove it. An article in the February 20, 1903 print edition of the paper reads, “There was a sociable held at the house of George Studley, the 13th. A good time was reported. Recitations were rendered by Mrs Ryder, Douglas Bacon, Bertha Swift, Rebe Waterbury, and Laura Comstock. The Bennett brothers were on hand and enlivened the evening with some of their comic songs. Mrs Betsey Hall, the mother of Mrs Studley, who is now in her 89th year, enjoyed the evening in her bright, cheerful mood as well as the youngest.”

I am unsure when the first boxes were put outside Reed Intermediate School as placement spots for people counting down to this weekend’s Friends of the C.H. Booth Library Book Sale, July 8 to 12, but I do know that Education Editor Eliza Hallabeck spotted some on the morning of July 5. Here’s a reminder: This year’s Friends of C.H. Booth Library Book Sale, July 8 to 12, at Reed Intermediate School, 3 Trades Lane, will have a Friday, July 8 preview event, with the public admitted between 1 and 4 pm. Admission is $40 that day only, and ticket sales will begin at noon. Saturday, July 9, through Monday, July 11, hours are 10 am to 5 pm. There is a $5 admission on Saturday for those age 19 and over (ticket sales begin at 9 am). Items will be sold at their marked prices. There is no admission fee as of Sunday morning, through the remainder of the event. Items will be sold at half price on Sunday, and $5 per provided bag on Monday. Tuesday, the final day of the sale, remainders are free and the event will run from 10 am to 1 pm.

The Newtown Farmers Market has been back for three weeks now, with the first day of the market on June 21. Newtown Farmers Market is held at Fairfield Hills on Tuesdays from 2 to 6:30 pm. It will run until October 25. The Newtown Farmers Market is held rain or shine; however, it does close in extreme weather, such as high winds or thunderstorms. As previously announced in The Newtown Bee, the Newtown Farmers Market organizers are hoping the community will join in a new project this year: Sharing photos both on social media and with the market of their favorite things and moments while shopping at the market. Residents who frequent the market are asked to take photos of “the things that make them happy there” and send those photos to the “newtown_ct_farmers_market” Instagram account or Facebook page, facebook.com/farmersmarketatfairfieldhills. People can also post photos to their own social media accounts and tag the Newtown Farmers Market accounts.

I do hope everyone had a nice Fourth of July. I spent mine drooling over Ferris Acres Creamery’s newest flavor, announced just in time for the Fourth of July: Red, White, and Moo. As described on its Instagram account, “ferrisacrescreamery,” the new flavor is vanilla ice cream with swirls of raspberry and blueberry.

I will still be celebrating as long as you promise next week to ... Read me again.