Greenport Maritime Festival A Go This Weekend, Despite Soggy Forecast

GREENPORT, NY — The Greenport Maritime Festival is a go — despite a forecast for wind and rain Saturday.

After inclement weather led to the cancellation of the Greenport Maritime Festival a new weekend, October 21 and 22, was chosen for the rescheduled festival.

Tracey Orlando, executive director of the EESM, the not-for-profit organization which hosts the event, was thrilled to announce the news.

"As you can imagine, canceling our Maritime Festival was a very difficult and emotional decision," she said. "Unable to sleep after the gala" — the gala was held as planned — "I knew that something had to be done to help my local merchants, neighbors and friends who would be directly effected by this unfortunate but right decision to cancel."

To that end, she said, with the full support of the EESM's board of directors, the group reapplied for permits to hold a rescheduled Maritime Festival.

But, Orlando said, help is needed. "We need all our friends and neighbors to come help our village merchants," she said. "Celebrate us while helping our small businesses get a final push before our long winter."

She added: "Our very small non-for-profit is putting this village before ourselves and wants as many people to come as possible, to support our local business that count on Maritime. The winter in the village is hard enough."