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| May 27, 2025 |
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General News: A Bigger Riverfest in 2008
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| This year's vendors sold goods, |
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| promoted new projects, like a food coop, |
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| and shared their work with the community, like the historical society did here. |
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| The sloop, the Woody Guthrie, offered free rides to festival-goers. |
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| A volunteer crew from the Beacon Sloop club run the ship. |
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| Free kayak trips were available, too, from Storm King Adventure Tours. |
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| Binky the clown taught the chief of police a lesson, |
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| showing him how to juggle. |
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| Cooling off at Riverfest. |
A beautiful, sunny day greeted festival-goers on Saturday morning for the start of the 11th annual Riverfest held at Donahue Memorial Park in Cornwall-on-Hudson.
More than 60 vendors began setting up early in the morning before the heat of the day set in. In addition to the many vendors selling t-shirts, sunglasses, jewelry, and other goods, several organizations put up tents. The grouping was diverse – from local artists in one tent to the Air National Guard and New York State Comptroller’s Office, where representatives offered to help people find if they had any unclaimed money sitting in a bank somewhere.
When the festival opened at 11 a.m. people started streaming in, perhaps wanting to avoid the high heat that was expected later in the day. Visitors could sign up to go for a sail with the volunteer crew of the Woody Guthrie, a replica of a Hudson River sloop built by folksinger Pete Seeger and operated by the Beacon Sloop Club. Storm King Adventure Tours was also on hand with a dozen kayaks to take people out for a paddle on the Hudson.
For the kids, there was face-painting, Binky the Clown making balloon animals and other games. But central to the success of the day was the steady stream of musical performers whose sounds provided an uplifting mood to the entire festival.
And by mid-afternoon, when the heat was rising and the ice cream melting faster than it could be gobbled up, many people were drawn to the riverbank, to catch a breeze, cool their feet, and maybe, to just jump in.
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