Baldwin helps man booth for late mom's charity at upstate fair
Actor Alec Baldwin helped out at the booth for The Baldwin Fund, the charity founded by his late mother, at Sunday's Greater New York State Fair in Syracuse. Credit: AFP via Getty Images / ANGELA WEISS
Alec Baldwin attended the Great New York State Fair in Syracuse over the weekend, where he was seen at a booth for his late mother's breast-cancer charity, The Baldwin Fund.
The Syracuse newspaper The Post-Standard said the Amityville-born and Massapequa-raised Emmy Award winner was in the Science & Industry building Sunday, where one fellow attendee told the newspaper the actor was "extremely polite," "friendly" and "very accessible," posing for a photo with that attendee's mother.
Carol Baldwin, matriarch of the family including actor brothers Alec, Daniel, Stephen and William Baldwin, died May 26 at age 92. Diagnosed with breast cancer in 1990, and subsequently undergoing a double mastectomy, she founded her breast-cancer research foundation in 1996. Since 2001, The Baldwin Fund has helped to raise millions of dollars and has provided more than 60 grants to support research programs led by 45 primary investigators at Upstate Medical University, according to the fund's website.
Alec Baldwin, 64, remains embroiled in an investigation into a fatal accidental shooting in October on the Santa Fe, New Mexico, set of his Western film "Rust."
