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WEHM All Access - EHM Breakfast Show w/ Harry 8/27/26 Community Spotlight - Thea Fry · WEHM All Access

• 0:00
  SPEAKER_01: It is the EHM Breakfast Show with Harry as we get closer to the end of summer and uh the turning of the season, so to speak.
• 0:07
  SPEAKER_01: It is time for the 25th annual uh Watermills Classic Car Expo.
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  SPEAKER_01: And joining me in studio is the coordinator of this event, Thea Fry.
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  SPEAKER_01: Thea, how are you?
• 0:16
  SPEAKER_00: I'm well, thank you.
• 0:17
  SPEAKER_00: Thank you so much for having me, Harry.
• 0:19
  SPEAKER_01: My pleasure.
• 0:20
  SPEAKER_01: I feel like the year has gone by very quickly.
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  SPEAKER_01: We were chatting about this last year, and this is year 25.
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  SPEAKER_01: Congratulations.
• 0:27
  SPEAKER_00: Thank you so very, very much.
• 0:28
  SPEAKER_00: We're also going to be honoring Charlie Corwith, a veteran, and who is the founder of the Watermill Car Show.
• 0:34
  SPEAKER_00: He's not with us this year.
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  SPEAKER_00: He passed in October, but we're also going to be um celebrating him and all the wonderful things he's done for the community and for our veterans at large.
• 0:44
  SPEAKER_01: It certainly has a rich history here in town and it's uh right down the road.
• 0:48
  SPEAKER_01: I love seeing it, even just to see the sign goes up during the summer.
• 0:51
  SPEAKER_01: It's uh for a couple of reasons.
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  SPEAKER_01: First, it reminds me that summer's almost over.
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  SPEAKER_01: We've almost made it um through the craziness, but it's that's kind of cool.
• 1:00
  SPEAKER_01: It it means that fall is here, and it's happening this year, Saturday, September 12th, 10 a.m.
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  SPEAKER_01: to 2 p.m.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now, if you do have a classic car and you're thinking, all right, how do I get involved?
• 1:09
  SPEAKER_01: Well, what's what's what's the deal?
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  SPEAKER_01: What should they do?
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, you have a few ways.
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  SPEAKER_00: One, you can show up the day of.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, I suggest that you show up way before 10 o'clock because the spots do fill up quite quickly.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, second, you can give me a call at 631-276-3435.
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  SPEAKER_00: Or three, you can uh request an application.
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  SPEAKER_00: You can fill it out early and register prior to um August 31st.
• 1:34
  SPEAKER_00: But we're always taking registrations up until the day of, um, including on the 12th.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh also, you know, if you just, like I said, just show up.
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  SPEAKER_00: We want the more the merrier.
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  SPEAKER_00: We're hoping to have 200 cars this year.
• 1:47
  SPEAKER_01: Nice.
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  SPEAKER_01: You're celebrating America's 250th birthday, the Watermills uh Classic Car Expo.
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  SPEAKER_01: Muscle Exotic Custom Classic Motorcycles.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yes.
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  SPEAKER_01: As well.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's kind of cool.
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  SPEAKER_01: And this is going down at the uh the Watermill Village Green.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh mission is$5.
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  SPEAKER_01: Children under 12 getting free, and the show cars are$20.
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  SPEAKER_01: All proceeds uh are helping out support something right here in Watermill.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yes, the Watermill Village Improvement Association, which um tends to the Corewith windmill, which as you see, that's been renovated this past year, and it's looking absolutely beautiful.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's also um helps with the Veterans Memorial, which is right on the Watermill Green, and the Watermill Green itself.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now, how did you get involved?
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  SPEAKER_01: I this is year five, I think, for you.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is year five for me.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, I actually grew up on Seven Ponds Tad Road across the street from Charlie Corwith.
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  SPEAKER_00: And he five years ago he said, Who's interested in keeping this um beautiful um car show going?
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  SPEAKER_00: And I said, I'll definitely step up.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then here you have it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Five years later, um, we have increased the amount of cars every year, as well as the spectators.
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  SPEAKER_00: We're very excited about that.
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  SPEAKER_00: But it's not a one-woman show.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's a large committee, the Watermill Car Show Committee, and we could not do it without them, as well as our sponsors.
• 3:05
  SPEAKER_00: We have some great sponsors that help us each and every year.
• 3:09
  SPEAKER_00: Um, one of our biggest sponsors this year is um Maggio Environmental.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um they have been so wonderful and supporting the car show.
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  SPEAKER_00: And we're we every year in July, right after 4th of July, we send out letters and um sponsorship letters asking folks to help us support um the car show as well as the Watermill Green.
• 3:32
  SPEAKER_00: And we've been very successful thus far.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I keep waiting each and every day for the mail to come to see what's happening next and how many more um sponsorships we're going to get.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it's just been so wonderful, and it's been an honor um to carry on this this event for Charlie Corwith.
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  SPEAKER_00: As you know, he's been such a he was a wonderful person in the community.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, he worked a lot with his veterans, and Watermill was very, very important to him.
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  SPEAKER_00: So myself and the rest of the committee and our community are carrying on his vision and his dream for the car show.
• 4:06
  SPEAKER_01: I love the fact too.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's a you look for every opportunity these days because people uh don't get together as much.
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  SPEAKER_01: And it's nice to see a sense of community, and this is one of those uh certain events.
• 4:15
  SPEAKER_01: Do you have any favorite cars you've seen over the years you've been doing this?
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, I think um there's a beautiful car, which I don't know what kind of car it is, but it is from Bridgehampton, and the gentleman's name is Arthur, and there's only two or three cars like it in the world.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's absolutely beautiful, it's from the 40s, and it's this lime green colored car, and it's absolutely gorgeous.
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  SPEAKER_00: He was not with us last year, but hopefully he'll be here with us this year.
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  SPEAKER_01: All right, hint hint.
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  SPEAKER_01: We want we want to see it out there.
• 4:43
  SPEAKER_00: Yes, we do.
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  SPEAKER_01: We want to see the nice lime color, which is very cool.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh, and there's just a nice, it's a nice atmosphere too.
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  SPEAKER_01: You get together for a few hours.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yes, it's about family, it's not a long period of time.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, you see a lot of local people.
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  SPEAKER_00: They come out after the holiday's over and everyone can take a breath, which is always nice.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, we have great parking, um, which is all around the village green, as well as the public parking across the street, um, behind the post office.
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  SPEAKER_00: So we, you know, it's it gets convenient.
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  SPEAKER_00: The weather, knock on wood, has been excellent the last five years.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, so we're just really honored and we're so happy that we're able to do this one more year.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like you said, it's our 25th year, so we want to celebrate it um, you know, big, bad, and beautiful and make it absolutely wonderful for all the car enthusiasts on the east end.
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  SPEAKER_00: So we're hoping that everyone comes out and joins us and um shows off their car, their motorcycle, whatever they have.
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  SPEAKER_01: This is great.
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  SPEAKER_01: Thea Fry, the coordinator of this year's Watermill Classic Car Expo, uh coming Saturday, September 12th, uh, 10 a.m.
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  SPEAKER_01: to 2 p.m.
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  SPEAKER_01: at the Watermill Village Green.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh, if you want to register, you can do that right before August 31st.
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  SPEAKER_01: Call Thea 631 276 3435.
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  SPEAKER_01: 631 276 3435.
• 5:59
  SPEAKER_01: Thea, thank you so much for coming in.
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  SPEAKER_00: Thank you so much for having me.
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  SPEAKER_00: We really appreciate it.
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  SPEAKER_00: And we hope to see everybody at the Watermill Car Show on September 12th at 10 a.m.
• 6:07
  SPEAKER_01: Get on out there, enjoy a nice morning and an early afternoon out there, and we will post all this information up on our socials at W E H M Radio.
• 6:15
  SPEAKER_01: Thank you so much for coming in, Thea.
• 6:16
  SPEAKER_00: Thanks for having me.
• 6:17
  SPEAKER_00: Have a great day.