LIVE AUCTION: Private History Cruise Charter aboard the Lake Hopatcong Foundation's Floating Classroom

Our forty-foot covered pontoon boat enhances our environmental school field trip program and provides hands-on learning opportunities for more an average of 1,600 people each year. It's one of our most vital tools for educating the public and advocating for a healthy lake.

For this year's auction, Marty Kane, local historian and president of the Lake Hopatcong Historical Museum, will provide a private historical program for you and 24 of your friends, family, colleagues, or neighbors aboard the Floating Classroom, on a mutually agreed upon date.

Impress your guests, learn a lot about Lake Hopatcong, and help us keep our Floating Classroom and many other educational initiatives going and growing by being the high bidder on this private tour!

*This is a live auction item, available for bid exclusively for attendees on July 20.

LIVE AUCTION: Private Afternoon of Sailing Around Manhattan

Come hoist the sails and be part of the crew on this priceless sailing adventure! You will sail around lower Manhattan and get up close to the Statue of Liberty. This is a private afternoon or evening for 4 aboard the racing sailboat "Endurance" named after the boat Shackleton used to explore the Antarctic. Light refreshments will be served, and the date and time will be mutually agreed upon. Wear your boat shoes and get ready to enjoy the ride of your life.

*This is a live auction item, available for bid exclusively for attendees on July 20.

LIVE AUCTION: Lakeside lunch and portrait sitting with famed artist Greg Hildebrandt

Renowned fantasy-art illustrator, Greg Hildebrandt and agent extraordinaire Jean Scrocco, co-owners of The Spiderwebart Gallery, invite one lucky top bidder to their Hopatcong Home for a once-in-a-lake-time experience!

The lucky winner is invited to join Greg and Jean for lunch and the amazing opportunity to become immortalized in a work of art!

Have you ever wanted to see yourself as your favorite Star Wars, Marvel or DC character? Perhaps a pirate on the open sea or a medieval Knight setting off to slay a dragon Now is your chance. Win the bid and be immortalized by Greg Hildebrandt!

How this exclusive experience works

• The winning bidder MUST bring their own costume.
• Greg and Jean will conduct a photoshoot of the winning bidder, in costume
• Greg will complete the drawing after the visit has concluded and the drawing will be shipped to the winning bidder upon completion, or can be picked up.
• The image will be of the winning bidder depicted as their favorite character (with minimal background for context)
• Final art will be 18" x 24" Graphite on archival drawing paper.

**Winner is welcome to choose one guest to pose with them!
*Minimum reserve for one person is $500
**Minimum reserve for two people is $1,000

About the artist
Greg Hildebrandt has been illustrating professionally for more than 65 years. Along with his late twin brother Tim, he created works of art that have redefined popular culture. Greg and Tim Hildebrandt first garnered international fame with their best-selling calendars of J.R.R. Tolkien's beloved classic "Lord of the Rings" published in 1976, 1977 and 1978 by Ballantine Books. However, their most well-known work of art, is the original poster for the first Star Wars film. That work alone has been reproduced on hundreds of thousands of products world-wide and remains in global circulation as a logo on Star Wars related merchandise. At 84 years old, Greg continues to work professionally and has no plans to stop anytime soon. He is currently in the concept design stages for the 2023 Trans-Siberian Orchestra winter Tour Concert Program. Along with his wife and business partner Jean Scrocco, Greg founded The Spiderwebart Gallery in 1995.

We have been lucky to call Greg and Jean our neighbors and friends at the lake, going back 33 years.

*This is a live auction item, available for bid exclusively for attendees on July 20.

LIVE AUCTION: Foursome of golf at Due Process!

Listed by Golf Pass as one of "the 10 most insanely private golf courses you will never get to play" and one of a dozen of the most private courses in the word, Due Process is the most private of private clubs.

It was built in 1992 for $40M by disgraced stock trader Robert Brennan as his own private course. Former US Open Champions Johnny Miller and Gene Bates were brought in to design the layout. It's known for its massive horse sculptures, a nod to the fact that it is a working equestrian center. It was sold to Goldman Sachs executive Peter C. Gerhard and John Ferolito, co-founderof Arizona Iced Tea, who owned it for 16 years. Membership was limited to 100 people and initiation fees were reportedly $350,000. In recent years, it has gone through beautiful renovations.

Despite being one of the nation's more expensive private clubs to join, those lucky enough to receive an invite will be treated like royalty for the duration of their stay. The course has 18 signature holes, each having a distinctive characteristic presenting challenges and opportunities for all. To keep the thoroughbred stable feel, turf grasses such as Kentucky bluegrass and tall fescues frame the fairways and greens. Golfing here is a truly memorable experience!

This is a once-in-a-lifetime shot at Due Process!

*This is a live auction item, available for bid exclusively for gala attendees on the night of July 20.