If you have ever stopped at the Red Apple Rest, the landmark restaurant is about to return the favor. Author Elaine Freed Lindenblatt will be here with the inside story of her father’s colorful eatery. Take a 50-year armchair ride back along NY Route 17 and learn what it was like to grow up in a round-the-clock family business that fed over one million customers annually. Elaine’s book Stop at the Red Apple and related memorabilia will be on display. Elaine Freed Lindenblatt is the daughter of Reuben Freed, a Russian immigrant who turned his roadside stop into the celebrated Red Apple Rest. Elaine is an editor and writer whose essays—on topics ranging from slice-of-life to the Holocaust—are widely published in Hudson Valley newspapers. She calls her book Stop at the Red Apple “the story I had to tell.” This program is both in person in the library and live streaming via Zoom. Register is necessary on mahwahlibrary.org events calendar to receive the Zoom Link (Don't forget to give us your email address).
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