Pickle Festival 2014 Greenlawn-Centerport Historical Association

The weather this year was wonderful!  Everyone came out for the 35th annual Greenlawn-Centerport Historical Association Pickle Festival.  These two are enjoying the society's hand held "pickles on a stick."

Volunteers set up for the day's activities.

The families come in at 10:00

The Gardiner Barn

 Pickle person

 This is the society's pickle tent with Kosher dill pickles, but we have other things besides pickles.....

 Greenlawn American Legion Post 1244 comes each year

Mike H.,  a representative from Newsday

 Vivint solar company, with Daniel Glicker

 50 different kinds of  Ravioli from Bambino's Fresh Pasta of Deer Park

 popcorn

Horman's pickles from Glen Cove

 Master Nick runs the  free hayride

antique cars and trucks

The volunteers from the association lovingly restored the iconic Lollipop train

 Engineer Pete drives the train

 to the delight of all the children.

 There is a  free corn maze

Deanne Rathke, the director of the association, and the Pickle lady

 pickles

 Monty Bread with Joe Finger

 Divine Brine of Huntington Station

 Gentle Brew

The Big Cheese

 Ridgewood Pork Store with their smoked meats

 Nina's Batch, granolas

 Wicked Teaspoon, Hope displays dips and dipping oils

A lovely mom and her son enjoying a pickle on a stick.

 Hartman's hot dogs served up by Don Pope who comes all the way back from Florida each year to help out.

 The kids love them

 Each year farmer Tony Guarnaschelli uses the 100 year old Long Island potato digging machine to pop out the potatoes.

 He plants rows so that children can see why Long Island was so famous for our potatoes.

 Kids line up and make a mad dash for the potatoes!

 They fill up paper bags and just get very excited about their potato trophies.  Parents love this activity, because they can get pumpkins anywhere, but freshly dug  potatoes, they can bring them home and cook them that night!

 This mom said that this was her baby's first pickle, and as you can see he loved it.

The music was provided all day by Phillip Jordan's band, Leap of Faith.  Members included Christine Jordan, Tommy Spiro, Joe Bowser, Kirsten Maxwell,  and Mike Sharp.   Over 5,000 people attended this event and all had a very happy family day outing.  Don't miss next year's festival.