Seanna Gaherin from Dunn Gaherins restaurant is hatching a bodacious plan. She wants to throw a fully catered outdoor feast for the Upper Falls neighborhood and make it the first of an annual event.
Her original and spectacular vision was to build one long table along the entire length of Echo Bridge for the feast. This unfortunately has been nixed for a variety of regulatory and technical reasons. The current thinking is that it will be held somewhere else in the Hemlock Gorge park.
Her vision is modeled after an outdoor feast you might find in Tuscany – a whole village coming together for an outdoor evening feast – delicious food, white table cloths, candles, roving musicians. Seanna has already enlisted support for the idea from many other local businesses in the hospitality industry. She’s been talking to local organizations, aldermen, the Upper Falls Area Council, anyone who can help make this plan a reality sometime next spring.
Wow, what a great idea! Cant wait to see how this turns out.
And I thought I worried about weather for our Community Tree Plantings! It sounds lovely, but is there a rain/hurricane plan? Does it rain much in Tuscany?
Dinner served in kayaks under Echo Bridge?
How about community picnic on Echo Bridge? Everyone can bring a blanket and a picnic dinner. Are there any regulations or technical difficulties that would prevent that?
@Bruce: As you may recall the surface of the bridge is not horizontal. That would mean no meatballs, cherry tomatoes. olives, peas, hard-boiled eggs, felafel, grapes, Munchkins, peaches, plumbs and on and on.
I’d consider that a technical difficulty.
Fabulous idea! Makes me want to move to Upper Falls!
Gail – Great, her plan is already working