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Photos: Long Island Potato Fest comes to the North Fork

By Vera Chinese

Tyler Smith, 23 months of Baltimore, Maryland competes in a potato sack race. (Credit: Vera Chinese)
Tyler Smith, 23 months of Baltimore, Maryland competes in a potato sack race. (Credit: Vera Chinese)

The spud may no longer be the North Fork’s staple crop, but hundreds of people celebrated taters and all their variations at the inaugural Long Island Potato Festival at Peconic Bay Winery in Cutchogue on Sunday.

See the photos at northforker.com

Vera Chinese has been the editor of northforker.com and northforker magazines since May 2014. Prior to that she spent two and a half years as a staff reporter for the New York Daily News. She joined the Riverhead News-Review as a staff writer in January 2010 and was named Associate Web Editor nine months later. She previously worked for the Southampton Press Western Edition and was named the third place 2008 Rookie Reporter of the Year by the New York Press Association. She graduated from Wagner College in 2006 where she received a bachelor's degree in English. She earned a master's degree in English education from New York University in 2007. She is a 2002 graduate of Eastport High School and has lived on the East End for more than 20 years.

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