This years lowertown festival is now history. To set up for the event the Buzzard brothers bring in 2 working sink units. A commercial refrigerator, A large warming storage container on wheels, a hot water heater, a prep and serving tables, food warmers, boxes and bags of paper towels, baskets, aluminum foil, a huge container of meat, and two large trailered BBQ cooking units, along with two large tents. By 4 pm today we had sold everything that was cooked for the weekend. Several guys make up the Buzzard Bros. along with a couple of younger workers the Buzzard Bros. call Chicken Hawks. They are all terrific people who do this because they love to get together and do something worthwhile for the community. After several truck and trailer trips back to Kirchhoffs storage area the equipment was returned cleaned and ready to go for the next event.
Special thanks need to go to the Market House Theatre volunteers who all signed up for 2 hour shifts over the 3 day festival to make sandwiches and package, ribs, chicken wings, BBQ chicken sandwiches, rice and beans, pulled pork sandwiches, and muffelatas, sell drinks and cookies. MHT board members signed up for 4 hour shifts as shift captains, and Marsha Cash pretty much lived at the festival for 3 days and her husband Floyd who gave up his birthday today to help make sure everything went smoothly. Thank you to both Marsha and Floyd! Thanks also to Renie and Don Barger who volunteered to work both Saturday and Sunday shifts! I wish I had a photo of Don Barger with his ear plugs in smiling away as he prepared the food. The music was so loud at times Saturday night that the crew resorted to hand signals to communicate.
This is a tremendous amount of work and the funds raised will go toward meeting our fundraising goal for the current year which ends June 30. One of the real benefits that I saw while I worked today was the positive attitude everyone had to help out the theatre. Everyone connected deserves a big thank and a well done! Another positive from the event was pulling together to accomplish this goal. It took over 60 people to make this event happen and working together we accomplished something special.
I think it is also important on this Memorial Day weekend when we spent time celebrating the arts in Paducah and raising funds for MHT to stop for a moment to honor our service men and women who have sacrificed so much for us. It is a very small gesture on MHT's part but we decided at the beginning of this season that we would have a reduced price for all veterans to our shows. Each show we have a few veterans who purchase tickets and it is our way of saying thanks for their service to our country and community.
While there is rehearsal on Monday for Anything Goes everyone else at theatre will be taking a day off for Memorial Day.
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