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from local business owners offering ar ts and crafts, gifts, antiques, collectibles and more. While many Merrick resi- Visitors and vendors alike were dents are lamenting the loss of required to wear masks, and the community’s annual Fall booths were separated by empty Festival, the Chamber of Com- parking spaces. merce has orgaAlan Finchley nized another owns Nassau Counevent to take its ty Fairs, the largest place. Last Sunday, producer of art, the organization craft, gift and street hosted roughly 30 fairs and flea marvendors in the Merkets on Long rick Long Island Island. He is also a Rail Road parking longtime chamber lot for the opening member. For the day of its new past 15 years, he weekly pop-up marhas worked with ket. the organization to In August, the bring vendors to its Herald reported annual festivals. that Fall Festival, And although which typically Covid-19 restricattracts thousands tions have forced of people, was canhis company to celed because of iRA REiTER cancel more than the coronavirus Vice president, Merrick 25 events this year, p a n d e m i c . B u t Chamber of Commerce he said that MerPresident Femy rick’s pop-up marAziz hinted that ket presented an the chamber was securing per- opportunity to shoppers and mits to host a weekly flea market merchants to return to doing in the same spot as the festival’s what they love, despite the panusual carnival. demic. The inaugural pop-up, on Oct. “Vendors . . . have not been 4, welcomed residents from across the area to shop safely Continued on page 14
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mERRiCk REsidENT luCillE Munson, who will celebrate her 100th birthday next Wednesday, said she would make it a point to vote in person on Election Day.
A Merokean turning 100 offers some advice: get out and vote By AlyssA sEidmAN aseidman@liherald.com
2020 is the 100th anniversary of a constitutional amendment that changed the course of American history. Because of the efforts of suffragists like Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott, who organized the first women’s rights convention in upstate Seneca Falls in 1848, a national movement for women’s equality, including the right to vote, began to gain
traction. New York passed a referendum granting women that right on Nov. 6, 1917. Three years later, on Aug. 18, 1920, women across the country were given the same privilege with the ratification of the 19th Amendment. Two months later, on Oct. 14, Lucille Munson, of Merrick, was born. A member of the first graduating class at Mepham High School in North Bellmore, Munson, 99, has voted
in her fair share of elections since casting her first ballot in 1941, when the voting age was still 21. That year she gave birth to her first son, Ronald, named for Ronald Reagan, who at that point was known only for his career in Hollywood. Munson’s maternal grandfather, Joseph McCoy, was an active member of the Merrick Democratic Party in the 1930s. The call to civic service was seemingly passed down, Continued on page 9
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lot of our vendors that are here are all local — most of them actually do our festivals — and we look forward to this growing.