Waterfront Farmers’ Market Is Hosting a Variety of Events (The Record)
This story was published in The Record on July 9, 2001 (page B3).
Above: The Record, Monday, July 9, 2001, page B3. Click to enlarge.
This unsigned piece, written in the market’s own voice, laid out the summer 2001 calendar for the free open-air market, open 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at 433 River St. at the Troy Dock and Marina, just north of the Green Island Bridge, every Saturday until Oct. 27. Events included the Tisch Family Trio and the Literacy Volunteers (July 14); Amy Ryan, plus the market’s fiscal sponsor, the Regional Farm and Food Project, with news of its annual “Through Women’s Hands” event featuring women chefs and women farmers (July 21); Don Gaylord, the Hudson Mohawk Industrial Gateway, the Burden Iron Works Museum and chef John La Pasto of the Cambridge Hotel (July 28); Maria Zemantauski, Habitat for Humanity and “Pottery Day” (Aug. 4); New York State Farmers’ Market Week with Cavanaugh & Kavanaugh and the North Central Neighborhood Association (Aug. 11); Kate Blain and the second annual corn roast (Aug. 18); and Neighborhood Day with Michael Eck, Cornell Cooperative Extension and Promised Land Farm’s goats (Aug. 25).
“This special day will be celebrated in recognition of the folks who live in the neighborhood.”
— On the Aug. 25 Neighborhood Day, in The Record