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All Around Rhinebeck

Chris Wilson, reporting live from Rhinebeck for The Daily Beast, snapped some fun shots around town—and managed to get a couple of Bill, too.

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A local Pizza Hut is offering free pizza to reporters and mocked the wedding on a promotional sign.

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Some attention-seekers got into the wedding spirit by donning rascal mascot uniforms.

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Cheering crowds swarm Bill Clinton as he makes his first public appearance in Rhinebeck this weekend.

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The adoring masses swarm the former president as he exits Gigi’s Trattoria.

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Unidentified wedding fanatics hold signs of amusing good cheer. The raccoon on the left is the mascot for a minor league baseball team, the Hudson Valley Renegades.

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The media encampment outside of Beekman Arms, where a wedding event is taking place this evening.

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A young girl selling “The Wedding” T-shirts out of the back of her father’s tow truck.

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Daily Show reporters John Oliver and Wyatt Cenac discuss a segment with producers.

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Two Rhinebeck locals, tipsy on free Champagne, don Bill and Hillary masks to run around town.

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And here’s where they got the bubbly—Rug Garden, a local store, and its owner Deborah Catalano, holding her third straight day of “Champagne n’ cake.”

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