Wednesday, June 05, 2013

The Pie Lady of Pie Town; Kathy Knapp subject of documentary

The owner and operator of the Pie-O-Neer, Kathy Knapp is the subject of a documentary – The Pie Lady of Pie Town – that that was in the restaurant filming May 31 in Pie Town. Since its auspicious re-opening in September 2004, The Pie-O-Neer has been the subject of several articles and a country song by Jimmy Wayne. The restaurant was the subject of a short feature film called A Piece of Pie in 2006. It, and its adjoining art gallery, was featured in a segment for NBC’s Rock Center last fall. If that’s not all, Knapp and crew will also be featured on the History Channel in August in a segment called All About Food. As for The Pie Lady of Pie Town, director Jane Rosemont said she discovered Pie Town when she and her husband took a road trip from Santa Fe to see the Very Lare Array. “In the gift shop there was a mileage sign that included Pie Town,” she said. “I asked the clerk ‘What’s in Pie Town?’ She looked me square in the eye, and without smiling, replied, “…Pie.” Rosemont said they sampled both Pie Town eateries, The Good Pie Café and the Pie-O-Neer. “There have been questions raised about when the film will be completed,” Rosemont said. “I don’t know the answer to that yet. I’m considering some additional scenes that can be shot in Santa Fe next month.” In the meantime Knapp said she is trying to find grant money for saving or restoring the old Pie Town Hotel. “It is doomed to be demolished this fall if no one intervenes,” she said. “It will cost about $10 thousand to do it right, and no one around here has that kind of money. I’ve contacted a couple of New Mexico Historic Preservation websites and gotten no response.”...more

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