I knew last year’s Park Avenue Festival would be hard to top.
As seen in Reverend Mothers, Empaths of Enlightenment, American buskers and more at the Park Avenue Festival, last year I met “Reverend Mother” Phyl Contestable of Nunsence fame. Perhaps back at her convent, this year I did not have an audience with Her Saintliness.
Rather cavalierly, Jackson Cavalier was not American buskering at the Festival. Or maybe I just missed the One-Man-Band-Entertainer.
Last year, Joy, of Caricatures by Joy, kindly made my caricature. Unfortunately, this year, her tent jammed full of clients, Joy could not readily squeeze us into her schedule.
So Talker will have to be to be a caricature of itself for another year.
And I admit disappoint with El Doria: palmistrist, empath of enlightenment and spiritual counselor. El Doria did not recognize me from last summer when I asked the mystic; Where will my love life be at summer’s end?
Although I have a year’s worth of romantic quandaries to resolve — and the burning question; How long will Talker last? — I skipped this year’s palm reading. El Doria, how quickly you forgot.
Also, as seen in Dreaming of Big Tents at Asbury First, this year Asbury First United Methodist Church did not have the “I Dream” graffiti wall in its tent (see featured pic). I’ll just stick with the 2015 dream.
But any disappointment was more than eclipsed with the good news.
7 Eleven cuts off Big Gulp was the sad story of the 7 Eleven on Monroe Avenue no longer allowing BG to be refilled with coffee for $1.61.
But to the rescue has come the 7 Eleven on Park Avenue where BG can now be filled with coffee for $1.61. Including mocha and French vanilla iced coffee!
Fully caffeinated just on life, we stepped out in style on the Avenue. At the Women’s Rochester Athletic Club, BG (yes, BG is girl) won a free year of ground roast toasting in the sauna.
Then good citizen BG registered to vote. Don’t call her an undocumented!
Then BG met our friend Rachel from Rachel’s Rebel Roots. Now that BG was registered, Rachel and Lori, her campaign manager, tried winning BG over with some sweet cream and sugar talk. But like us, BG, is not yet endorsing.Finally, we met “People Painter” Kelsey Merkle. Seeing the frowny face painted on BG, Kelsey quickly offered to give BG a real smile. Thanks, Kelsey, who is painting faces to help pay off her art school loans. One BG at a time.
SEE ALSO ON THE LILAC AND CORN HILL ARTS FESTIVAL
Emerging artists coming of age in Rochester at the Corn Hill Arts Festival