Thousands of visitors celebrated the sixth annual Port Jefferson Ice Festival, hosted by the Port Jefferson Business Improvement District, on January 25 and 26.
Festival goers got a chance to view the Stony Brook Medicine penguin and bear ice sculpture and the Stony Brook University Wolfie ice sculpture. The Stony Brook sculptures took center stage at the intersection of West Broadway and Main Street, in the heart of Port Jefferson Village.
The Stony Brook sculptures were among more than 30 ice sculptures for the event created by Rich Daly, owner of Ice Memories in Mastic Beach, NY. Daly, an award-winning ice sculptor with over 200 competition titles — including ten Gold Medals in the U.S. National Ice Carving Championships — also holds a Guinness World Record for carving 60 sculptures in under three hours.
In addition to the ice sculptures, visitors enjoyed live ice carving demonstrations, ice corn hole, marshmallow roasting, hot chocolate stands, ice mini golf, skating demos, tractor rides, karaoke, interactive games and live performances.
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