Touring Millerton on National Children’s Day

Willmer Pelico, 5, of Millerton, gets a new look from face painter Violet Aufdenberg on the sidewalk in front of The Elephant’s Tusk.

Photo by John Coston
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Touring Millerton on National Children’s Day

MILLERTON — The village celebrated National Children’s Day on Sunday, June 8, with arts and crafts, face painting, free ice-cream sundaes and a free movie kicking off events in the morning at The Moviehouse.


Raphael Anderer, 2, of West Cornwall, rings the bell at the Irondale Schoolhouse in Millerton on Sunday, June 8.Photo by John Coston

The Millerton Business Alliance sponsored the free activities. Parents shuttled from a piggy-bank craft activity at Veterans Park hosted by NBT Bank to face painting on Main Street in front of The Elephant’s Tusk and Millerton lived up to its distinction as a walkable town.

Further down Main, the Harlem Valley Rail Trail beckoned bikers and walkers, and as passersby approached the Irondale Schoolhouse, they were greeted by calls of “free ice cream” from Ralph Fedele, president of Friends of the Irondale Schoohouse.

photos by john costonJamie Wagoner, 7, left, and sister Lily, 5, both of Millerton, focus on making cardboard piggy banks at the NBT Bank booth on Main Street in Millerton on Sunday, June 8. Photo by John Coston

Young and old stopped to make a sundae, and some wandered into the one-room 1850s schoolhouse. Two-year old Raphael Anderer from West Cornwall, who was freshly fueled with ice cream, took a turn ringing the schoolhouse bell, pulling down with both hands before disappearing inside.

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