{"id":15581,"date":"2016-10-19T17:08:06","date_gmt":"2016-10-19T21:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=15581"},"modified":"2016-10-19T17:08:06","modified_gmt":"2016-10-19T21:08:06","slug":"hillary-house-ball-promises-an-affair-to-remember","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/hillary-house-ball-promises-an-affair-to-remember\/","title":{"rendered":"Hillary House Ball promises An Affair to Remember"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Brock Weir<\/strong><\/p>\n

For over 80 years, the Empire State Building has been a landmark for generations of romantics, often fuelled by the on-screen romance of film icons Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr.
\nWhile the internationally-renowned landmark achieved cinematic immortality in their classic romance, An Affair to Remember, it is very much a building with an Aurora connection \u2013 and the Aurora Historical Society is aiming to recreate some of the romance and magic created by Grant and Kerr next week at the fifth annual Hillary House Ball.
\nVolunteers are hard at work transforming King Valley Golf Club into the gauzy atmosphere of the 1957 tearjerker ahead of this year\u2019s ball, which takes place next Saturday evening, October 29, with proceeds benefiting continued restoration work at Hillary House, Aurora\u2019s only national historic site.
\n\u201cWe have been working with our volunteers and our team to have that combination of the 1950s Hollywood romance with the soft, elegant feel with the fact the majority of the movie takes place on a ship going between Provence and New York,\u201d says AHS Curator Erika Mazanik. \u201cYou will see as soon as you walk into the ballroom that it will have that feel of going between the two places.\u201d
\nWhile the film focuses on the star-crossed shipboard romance of the two leads, all good things come to an end and, at the end of their cruise, they are back to the realities of life in New York and the romances left behind. If, in a year\u2019s time, they still felt the same way about each other, they agreed to meet at the top of the Empire State Building. Fate, however, intervenes as the clock runs down.
\nConstruction on the Empire State Building began in 1930 and, once complete, it was the tallest building in the world for the next four decades. Supervising the building project was superintendent of construction was Aurora\u2019s own John Bowser, who is buried in Aurora Cemetery under a small stone replica of the famous building.
\nNext weekend\u2019s Ball will feature entertainment from the After Hours Big Band, an event favourite, as well as famed pianist Ellen Meyer who will play as guests arrive and during dinner. Once the Big Band starts up, however, be prepared to get on your feet as dance instructor Derek Krzyszkowski joins guests on the floor.
\n\u201cI am really excited about how we have really played the theme into it,\u201d says Ms. Mazanik. \u201cWe haven\u2019t done this in past years and I am really excited to see how it is all going to play out and feel. This is about the House, it is about the Historical Society, it\u2019s about having a fun evening of dinner, dancing, great conversation, and great people.\u201d
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\nTickets to the Hillary House Ball are $150 per person. Doors open at 6 p.m., with dinner served at 7 p.m. For more information, call 905-727-8991 or email community@aurorahs.com.
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