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Sea Cliff, get ready to rock next week great way to bring the community together.” Porchfest was originally The Love Your Neighbor Proj- scheduled for May of 2020, and ect is bringing the spirit of the coronavirus pandemic shut music to the Village of Sea Cliff those plans down. Then, in Febwith its first-ever Rock for Love ruary of this year, Llewellyn Porchfest. On May 21, from 11 bumped into Jaime Teich, “chief a.m. to 7 p.m., resineighbor” of the dents will be treated Love Your Neighbor to live music perProject, at one of her for med on their charity events. neighbors’ porches, When Teich heard while enjoying selfabout the proposed guided walking project, she said, she tours and a concert thought it was exactin the village. ly the kind of event The idea for the that she wanted to Porchfest originated get involved in. with Sean Llewellyn, “When Sean who has lived in Sea brought the idea to Cliff for 10 years. me, I thought, ‘What When he was on the a great way to celev i l l a g e ’ s Yo u t h LISA CASHMAN brate Love Your Activities Board in Porchfest performer Neighbor Project’s 2019, he discovered second year,’” Teich that the upstate city said. “We think the of Ithaca had held a similar Porchfest is a lovely way to celeevent in 2012, and thought it brate what Love Your Neighbor would be perfect for Sea Cliff. Project has become, as a commu“What, you know, so fascinat- nity.” ed myself and the other memResidents will be able to purbers of the board was that Sea chase a map of the village, Cliff has all of these great porch- detailing the locations and times es, with these lovely Victorian at which some 25 local bands houses and other interesting that have signed on will perform houses,” Llewellyn said. “And on the porches of some of Sea with all the super-talented musi- Cliff ’s homes, for $20. Then they cians we have, it seemed like a CONTINUED ON PAGE 4
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JAMES FOOTE GAVE one of T.R.’s speeches at the reopening of Sagamore Hill in July 2015.
Roosevelt laid to rest again with re-enactor Foote’s death ‘Eccentric bohemian’ who made people smile By LAURA LANE llane@liherald.com
James Foote, who was beloved in Oyster Bay and the surrounding villages for his portrayal of President Theodore Roosevelt, died in his sleep on May 4, just as the former president had a century earlier. Foote’s wife, Joni, said she
thought he was playing a joke on her when she tried to rouse him, because he liked to kid around. But when she threatened to call 911 and he didn’t respond, she knew he was gone. “When the fireman came to the house, he asked me Jim’s name,” Joni recounted. “When I told him, he paused and said, ‘The Teddy Roos-
evelt guy?’ He had tears in his eyes.” Foote, who was 73, had a stroke in 2019 and had diabetes. He had lost the use of one hand and an arm and walked a bit off kilter. Even so, he often met up with friends at the Village Green in his hometown of Sea Cliff, where they could be found absorbed CONTINUED ON PAGE 14
t’s such a wonderful idea, that the whole village will just be lit up in song for the day.