by KYW’s Karin Phillips
They're getting ready for the annual Bastille Day celebration in Fairmount, which begins on Thursday and lasts through next weekend.
Take an historic site like Eastern State Penitentiary; add some French costumes, food and champagne, plus 2,000 Twinkies and you have the annual Bastille Day Festival in Fairmount.
Eastern State program director Sean Kelley says the festival used to have some connection to the French Revolution, but now it's more like Monty Python:
“We're all going to have water pistols. And we encourage the public to bring water pistols. And every time that comes up in the script, everyone shoots their water pistols in the air, and we make our own Reign of Terror across Fairmount Avenue.”
London Grill owner Terry McNally loves her annual role as Marie Antoinette:
“I have a big costume. I have a wig that's like 2 feet tall and has things in it. I'm like a big cartoon and people love to hate me. I don't take it personally but (laughs).”
For more information, go to easternstate.org/events/bastille.
Photo by KYW’s Karin Phillips
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