Lights! Trees! Action! Holidays at the Harbor
Snug Harbor Cultural Center & Botanical Garden invites you to get your holidays off to a rousing start this year with the Lights! Trees! Action! Holidays at the Harbor celebration at Snug Harbor on December 3, 2011. Festivities will include the 15th Annual Carl Grillo Memorial Tree Lighting ceremony with carolers and light refreshments, as well as holiday “spirits” and music for dancing and more. The holiday party will be from 5 pm to 9 pm. Admission is $10. Participants are also requested to bring non-perishable food items for a Holiday Food Drive to benefit local food pantries in cooperation with Project Hospitality.
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Please have someone contact me from your Performing Arts Dept. My mom was a musical playwright who wrote songs and produced a show that would bring the world together. It's about our grandparents who came from Ellis Island, opened an Italian Grocery store in Sheepshead Bay, raised 7 kids behind the store, and kept the store open after their 68th wedding anniversary. My grandmother lived to be 100, and the musical is about her strive to keep the store open at age 92, but her adult children couldn't fill the shoes of our beloved grandfather, who died at age 92. Mom's song, "This Land America" is what so many of our NYC residents could be inspired by, anxious to find a place to live their dreams, hoping the people here would be nice to them, and not knowing what they would find here, leaving their childhood family and friends behind, shed tears all day, but just had to take that chance, you see, God's will for me…
Her other songs are truly amazing too, "Working Together as One" though our heritage meatball meshed ingredient song…mom sheds light on how our different cultures, when blended with each of our own unique spices, we together can create something so delicious, and plentiful for the world to share…no one to ever go hungry again in this world.
"Papa" about how my uncle tried so hard to fill his Papa's shoes, but how he missed Papa…couldn't hold back the tear.
"I remember" my aunt's thrill of riding the NYC buses and subways for her adventurous shopping voyage…it used to cost a nickel, yet today that could not even buy you a pickle.
"I'm an Artist", no I am not this or that or what you want me to be…I am an Artist…so, what could be wrong with that?
I want to raise money for Snug Harbor, the Catholic Schools of Staten Island, and produce a "Memory Walk" in the month of September, using the Light Up Balloons in Purple (light those in Red in October for "Light the Night").
Mom got her wings from God on my identical twin boys 8th Birthday, on April 12, 2012 – they were her only grandchildren, and I don't want mom's good deeds to be forgotten. Her other plays, "Our Lady of Fatima", "Between Winter and Spring", and "Morning Glory" too could help raise money for these incredible causes. She was only 74 years old and was diagnosed with Alzheimers disease in February 2006. Thank you for your time.
Rosemarie Petraglia
(347) 524-1915 – call or text.
rosemariepetraglia@aol.com