River Street Festival Starts This Morning (The Record)
This story was published in The Record on May 20, 2000 (page B1, continued on B3)
Above: The Record, Saturday, May 20, 2000, pages B1 and B3. Click to enlarge.
On the morning the market opened for the first time, The Record reported that River Street merchants, the Arts Alliance and the new Troy Waterfront Farmers Market were holding a celebration along River Street. The market, sponsored by the Regional Farm and Food Project, would be open every Saturday through Oct. 28 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the parking lot at Hedley Park Place, just north of the Green Island Bridge, selling organic and conventionally grown foods, in-season fruits and vegetables, plants, breads, meats and wholesome farm products; the story added that there would be no genetically engineered foods and that each week would bring a free community celebration with a different feature. The continuation on page B3 listed the opening-day program: a 10 a.m. modern dance performance by Sage College graduate Tamara Stevens; remarks by dignitaries including “waterfront farmer’s market president Matt Lindstrom,” Troy Mayor Mark Pattison and Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno; the Pokingbrook Dancers at 11 a.m.; a children’s sing-along with MotherJudge at 11:30; the Pokingbrook Morris Dancers at noon; and gardening clinics, farm and craft demonstrations, a petting zoo and storytelling.
“It’s back to our roots when people of the rural parts of the county came to the city to sell our wares. … It will be family friendly and it will be a good thing for the city of Troy and for the whole region.”
— Troy Mayor Mark Pattison, in The Record