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Food Museum Hosts Pickle Day
New York, New York—Co-hosted by the Lower East Side Business Improvement District and the NY Food Museum, The Eighth Annual NYC International Pickle Day is a free, fun street festival held on Orchard Street between Broome and Grand Sts. in the heart of the old Pickle District of the Lower East Side. On Sunday, September 14th, between 11 am and 4:30 pm, Pickle Day will feature music, cooking and home canning demonstrations, children’s activities, neighborhood walking tours and of course pickle samples! And for the first year Pickle Day is welcoming a full-length production Shakespeare in the Parking Lot, produced by The Drilling Company.
New York’s pickle menu includes more than just cucumbers!
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Friends of Delaware Canal to Show Films
NEW HOPE, PENNSYLVANIA. Two vintage 1930s films that were created to promote the preservation of the Delaware & Raritan Canal will be shown on Sept. 9 at 7:30 p.m. at the Feinstone Conference Center of the David Library of the American Revolution, 1201 River Road, Washington Crossing, Pa.
The program is hosted by the Friends of the Delaware Canal.
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Preservation
Save the Forum from Landfill
This alert comes from Michael Perlman, who has already helped to save the Cheyenne, Moondance, and Terminal Diners in Manhattan. We appreciate the efforts of Michael and the predicament of the diner’s owner, but if this diner is so worthless as to warrant its demolition, why is he trying to sell it for $15,000? [Update: We previously had an incorrect email address for Michael Perlman’s. His correct address is unlockthevault@hotmail.com.]
This is the last call to preserve the historic Forum Diner (211 E State Route 4) via transport, or it will end up “doomed in a landfill.” The Forum Diner is still available for $15,000. Rigging costs will depend upon where the diner is transported to. The diner contains 3 major sections at 18ft 6in each, and the price is a bargain considering its 15,000 square feet (only $1 per square foot!), and a great business opportunity once it reopens.
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Diner Museum
"The American Diner Museum and I are now enemies"
A friend of the magazine pointed us to this recent blog entry. We recommend especially that you read the comments should you venture over to the originating website.
I’ve mentioned before my love (or rather need) for watching travel documentaries. Well, I was perusing the ol’ library stacks a while looking for something about India, when I came across a travel documentary about Rhode Island. What better way to get to know your new home, than to watch a low-budget movie about it? I thought. So I got it, and watched it, and that has already come in handy because on Sunday I went and watched the ceremonial burning of the H.M.S. Gaspee (more on that later).The DVD (yes, it was actually a DVD), also included a glimpse of The American Diner Museum in Lincoln, RI. ...
Finally, we found the museum, and found it to be closed. There were no posted hours on the building, nor did the recording give me any when I called them. So we went home.
The following day, I found their website which promises: “Visitors to the Museum’s permanent home will be able learn the history of the diner through interactive video and exhibits commemorating the numerous diner manufacturers. The Museum’s reference library will provide access to manufacturers’ literature and records, a registry of diners and a collection of photographs and artifacts.” Except there are no posted hours on the website either. So I sent them a politely worded email. I thought maybe, it’s only open during the summer months, and we had visited too early.
So I called them, and left a politely-worded voicemail explaining that I’m new to the area, saw the museum on a travel documentary, and would simply love to come visit if they would only tell me when I can actually get into the building. No response.
Now, I have to ask, what is the point of having a museum that no one can visit? Do I need to be a part of a documentary crew in order to get inside? Someone must be paying the phone bill, so why is he or she not checking messages?
Read the rest.
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Diner Finder Complete Updated for August
We have published a new revision of the Diner Finder Complete for August that records numerous revisions to the diner landscape over the past three months. You can review and order your own full-color, lavishly printed copy from Lulu.com for still only $29.95—that’s still ten dollars less than the hand-made, black and white version we used to assemble here in our office.
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