05/24/2026
❤️ PLEASE SHARE ❤️ UPDATE ON DAD’s NJ CELEBRATION OF LIFE.
Hello everyone!
After much planning; we have secured a time, date, and location for our father's New Jersey Celebration of Life.
Please join us June 20th, 2026 at the Cranford Elks Lodge #2006 for an evening of local music, drinks, and food catered by Lil Ed and I.
To update you on recent events since our father's passing:
Ed, Cole, and I drove out to Indiana to figure out how we were going to manage our father's belongings while juggling our grief and me building a human being. We were met with blizzards, squalls, tornados, and floods; all great signs that dad was with us every step of the way. With a broken heart under a sunny sky, we closed the doors to our restaurant in Madison, Indiana; said goodbye to our little shack of 10 years and "see you soon" to all of our friends that we have considered family. It felt like we were losing dad all over again.
With the help of your donations, I have purchased a kettle for manufacturing; shipped pallets of sauce, ingredients, and glass back to NY; kept our heat and electric on; and tried our best to keep up with website orders. So with hope on the horizon, and our son on the way, we will be opening a new manufacturing spot in Greenwood Lake, NY. With BBQ season around the corner, we ask that you keep us in your prayers as we try to navigate it without our dad. If you would like to donate towards our shop restoration expenses, please check out our gofundme we started in December.
https://gofund.me/4d355dd8c
Thank you for all your help these past few months, we love you all very much and couldn't have gotten through any of this without you. We are so excited to celebrate with you in June, we just ask that you bring your stories of our dad with you. Once the dust settles I would like to get everyone's stories together to make a book for Oliver called "the friends of my father" with all of his crazy stories. DON'T HOLD BACK! You know he wouldn't have.
