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RateThird Big Outdoor Movie Night at the park
By Billie Dunn
COXSACKIE — Today the town of Coxsackie will host its second Big Outdoor Movie Night of the summer. The event, which began last year, was slated to be annual — but this summer’s encore performance is a result of its popularity.
Earlier this month more than 200 residents from Coxsackie and surrounding communities attended the Aug. 3 showing of Bee Movie, a DreamWorks film created by Jerry Seinfeld in which Barry (Seinfeld), a recent college graduate, realizes he wants more out of life than just a job at Honex making honey.
Tonight, movie-goers will be treated to a free showing of Disney’s Enchanted, a 2007 film about a princess who lives a perfect life before her evil step-mother-to-be throws her through a magical portal and she ends up in a land where “there are no happily ever afters” — New York City.
The film is rated PG, and is 107 minutes long. It will be projected onto a two-story inflatable screen by Fresh Air Flicks, a company that provides outdoor movies throughout New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and eastern Pennsylvania. Fresh Air Flicks also takes part in a weekly outdoor summer movie series underneath the Brooklyn Bridge.
Big Outdoor Movie Night is an effort by the town to create more family-friendly activities in Coxsackie. Town Supervisor Alexander Betke got the idea at an Association of Towns meeting last year.
The show will kick-off around 7:30 p.m., and popcorn will be provided.
Betke recommends that people bring chairs, blankets and even picnic dinners to Riverside Park — which he describes as underutilized.
“This is a really neat experience, and we’re lucky enough to have it entirely funded by a grant,” said Betke, who thanks Assemblyman Tim Gordon for his efforts. Betke also credits additional sponsors — the National Bank of Coxsackie, State Telephone Company, Hamlet on the Hudson and Peggy and Hue Quigley.
Earlier this month more than 200 residents from Coxsackie and surrounding communities attended the Aug. 3 showing of Bee Movie, a DreamWorks film created by Jerry Seinfeld in which Barry (Seinfeld), a recent college graduate, realizes he wants more out of life than just a job at Honex making honey.
Tonight, movie-goers will be treated to a free showing of Disney’s Enchanted, a 2007 film about a princess who lives a perfect life before her evil step-mother-to-be throws her through a magical portal and she ends up in a land where “there are no happily ever afters” — New York City.
The film is rated PG, and is 107 minutes long. It will be projected onto a two-story inflatable screen by Fresh Air Flicks, a company that provides outdoor movies throughout New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and eastern Pennsylvania. Fresh Air Flicks also takes part in a weekly outdoor summer movie series underneath the Brooklyn Bridge.
Big Outdoor Movie Night is an effort by the town to create more family-friendly activities in Coxsackie. Town Supervisor Alexander Betke got the idea at an Association of Towns meeting last year.
The show will kick-off around 7:30 p.m., and popcorn will be provided.
Betke recommends that people bring chairs, blankets and even picnic dinners to Riverside Park — which he describes as underutilized.
“This is a really neat experience, and we’re lucky enough to have it entirely funded by a grant,” said Betke, who thanks Assemblyman Tim Gordon for his efforts. Betke also credits additional sponsors — the National Bank of Coxsackie, State Telephone Company, Hamlet on the Hudson and Peggy and Hue Quigley.
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