Save the Date for Holliston’s 2nd Annual Food Truck Festival May 7th

“Who doesn’t love food?” asks Lina Arena-DeRosa, one of the five folks planning the Second Annual Holliston Food Truck Festival at the Holliston Historical Society to benefit the Charles F. DuFord American Legion Post 47, which meets the first Sunday of the month at 10 a.m. in the VFW hall at 310 Woodland Street, Holliston. The food truck festival will take place on Sunday, May 7th, from 11:30 a.m. – 3 p.m. at the Holliston Historical Society at 547 Washington Street. Although tables and chairs will be available, people are invited to bring blankets and chairs and their whole families for a fun event with entertainment.
Arena-DeRosa and her friend, Jane Gilfoy, came up with the idea last year, while walking their dogs.
“We were talking about wouldn’t it be fun to have a food truck festival in Holliston. With food trucks you can visit the world in one day. We have things from Mexico, we have vegetarian, we have things from Italy, and who doesn’t want to eat great food and be outside and enjoy your family and friends?”
Theresa Lamkin, says Arena-DeRosa, “found a website in Massachusetts that all the food trucks visit.” Lamkin set up the event, and the food trucks signed up. “We’re just little Holliston, but they (the food truck vendors) had such a great time last year, everyone wants to come back, and we have two new trucks,” says Arena-DeRosa, who adds that Steve Bradford and Carl Damigella complete the entire five-person committee working on the event.
“We all work really well together,” says Arena-DeRosa, who says all of them have also been involved in Celebrate Holliston. “It’s a really strong working group. Everybody has a piece, and then we just do it.”
This Food Truck Festival will include approximately 10 traveling kitchens that will serve a variety of menus, and the event will be rain or shine. Last year, over 1,000 people attended this fun-filled event, which will take place rain or shine.
Local bands will be entertaining throughout the day, in addition to the wide variety of excellent food to please any appetite.
The bands donated their time and said they’d be willing to come back this year, although at press time this was not yet confirmed. “It was mostly 70s, 80s and 90s music, and people really enjoyed it, says Arena-DeRosa.”
According to the post commander, Steven Bradford, the Holliston American Legion plans and executes the Memorial Day program in Holliston each year, which includes planting geraniums at Veterans Squares in town and decorating the graves of soldiers who’ve served. Along with the VFW and the Lions Club, the Legion also hosts a Veterans Day Ceremony and luncheon. You can find “Holliston American Legion” on Facebook.
There is no admittance fee to the Holliston Food Truck Festival. “All it costs you is the food you get from the food truck,” says Arena-DeRosa, who says the food trucks pay a fee to be part of the festival. Visitors last year, however, made some voluntary donations to the American Legion Post.
For more information, contact Lina Arena-DeRosa at linaad19@gmail.com or Theresa Lamkin at theresa448@verizon.net.