Greenwood Lake History Dinner

Due to popular demand Cove Castle has scheduled 2 more Greenwood Lake History Dinner events!

Thursday, October 17th @ 6:30 and Sunday October 27th at 5:30

We will be showcasing a 1 1/2-hour video presentation on a large movie screen on October 17th.  On October 27th we will also have an area set up as the Museum Room showcasing many rare artifacts, photos and treasures of Greenwood Lake’s past. Local historian and owner of the largest collection of GWL memorabilia, Stephen Gross will be on hand to answer questions and share some tales and facts of the lake’s great history. The film reel we will be showing on the screen was curated by Bob Pereira, proprietor of Cove Castle. Bob’s inspiration to create such a film came to him while doing a history dinner boat tour of the lake with passengers who won a free tour of GWL in a raffle for an event called “A friend in need of something nice”. A local resident, Ed Jones had entered his friend Julie who was suffering from cancer at the time. Ed and Julie had been selected as one of the ten winners. After the cruise, Ed told Bob about a video that was filmed in 1989 by Doris Greck and Wilbur Christman, both longtime residents of GWL. Ed said that the video reminded him so much of the tour he just took and asked if Bob had seen it…Bob had not. Doris was the proprietor of the popular Grecks Maplewood Inn with a bigger than life personality and well known to everyone in the lake area. Wilbur Christman was a former Mayor of GWL, Realtor, local Historian and author of two historical books about GWL. Bob was loaned the video by local resident Stu Granitz and then decided to have it digitized. One of Doris’ quotes in the video was, “I just wanted everyone to know just what it was like in Greenwood Lake in the past.”  This became the mantra and inspiration to help fulfill that desire of Doris’. Bob embarked on a deep dive into the history of GWL and collected as many photos, film clips, articles, stories and tales as he could for months. Together with a friend, they started the editing process. This became a bigger task than he first thought, so he pulled more friends to help narrate, edit and add to the film it has become today.

This film, mini documentary, reel (??)…Bob still is not sure what to call it, is now ready to show again and has been shortened, cleaned up since the first viewing that took place last year. The core of this film is the original video of Doris and Wilbur, they both narrate a good part of the reel. Bob has added so much more content to the original and removed or replaced many of the visuals. There are new film footage, photos, tales and facts from the 1930’s to 2000’s as well.

As a good friend once said to Bob, “Do you think this is worth twice the cover charge you paid to get in?” If that’s the case, it’s zero times two! There is no cover!  Just the price of the 3-course gourmet dinner that comes with a free film and night at the museum. Entry will cost $45 per person which includes the 3 course pre fixe dinner and viewing of the documentary short of Greenwood Lake and GWL artifact Museum room experience with a guest Historian.

The Cove has hosted these events over the past year in our formal dining room upstairs at The Cove. Previous events have sold out and many friends of the Cove did not get a chance to participate, so don’t miss out!

Hope to see you all soon.

If any guests attending these two History Dinner would like to bring and include any artifacts, photos and or materials related to Greenwood lake history to be displayed in the museum room feel free to contact Bob Pereira at  [email protected]