Every once in a great while, the Sonoma Valley Historical Society’s Depot Park Museum holds its longtime community-favorite attic sale featuring antiques and new and gently used treasures at bargain prices. On Saturday, Oct. 18, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., the society’s “Kitchen Tricks and Treats” sale takes place just outside the museum in Depot Park, 270 First St. W.
Many of the volunteers have dug into their attics, basements, closets and garages to provide a large selection of fun and unusual items you might find in a kitchen or dining room. Included will be china, pottery, utensils, small appliances, bowls, dishes, cookware, handmade aprons, linens, candles, cookbooks and tons more – all priced to sell as a fundraiser for helping to keep Depot Park Museum free and open to the public.
The sale is being held in conjunction with one of the museum’s most ambitious exhibitions to date, the Sonoma Valley culinary and agricultural story, “Before the Vine.” The display – only up for two months – offers insights into local farms, ranches, growers and food producers from more than a century ago to the present, that have made this Valley a rich source of first-rate crops too numerous to mention. Anchoring the exhibit is a large collection of rare kitchen items from book author, newspaper columnist and food maven Kathleen Thompson Hill including some of her recently acquired culinary wares. Proceeds from the attic sale will help offset the cost of this special Sonoma Valley exhibition.
For more information, contact Depot Park Museum at 938-1762.
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