Four decades ago, the Greenlawn event that celebrated the brined cucumber was a homemade pickle sale at a public library, said Sarah Brown, executive director of the Greenlawn-Centerport Historical Association.

In her office, Brown keeps a jar of lime pickles said to be from the hamlet's first-ever pickle festival. The product has likely expired.

The annual Pickle Festival Fundraiser looks different from the 1980s iteration: on Saturday, vendors sold pickle sandwiches, fried pickles and crocheted pickles at John Gardiner Farm in Greenlawn. At its close, Brown estimated the event had drawn 3,500 to 4,000 visitors.

"It got so big that it outgrew the library, and moved to the John Gardiner Farm," Brown said in a phone interview on Friday. "Ever since then, it's just been expanding, expandi

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