From: Friends of McMillan Park
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restoremcmillan@gmail.com>
Date: May 6, 2019 at 10:14:50 AM EDT
Subject: FOMP: Join us for a history walking tour around McMillan
Park and through the Bloomingdale neighborhood on Saturday, May 25th, 2019
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Join us for a history
walking tour around McMillan Park on Saturday,
May 25th at 9:00am (rain date: Sun. May 26th)
Dear
Friend of McMillan Park,
About
three weeks from now on Saturday, May 25th, we will
be hosting another history walking tour through Bloomingdale
and around the perimeter of McMillan Park. Once again, we are
fortunate to have our neighbor and friend Paul Cerruti leading
the tour. Paul has compiled a tremendous amount of
detail about the park and its role in our neighborhood through
the years since it was first opened to the public. This will cover
a lot of the information presented in history walks we
hosted in 2017 and 2018, and in March 2019, that were
very well attended and enjoyed! The weather we hope will
be ideal for such a walking tour. We hope to have
about four tours per year, though no dates have been set for
subsequent tours.
The tour will showcase
McMillan Park, its vistas, unique history, and connection to historic
landmarks in the Bloomingdale neighborhood. The first part of the
walk will include information and bonus highlights about the
history and development of Bloomingdale, much of it in
anticipation of the opening of McMillan Park.
The tour will last
about two to three hours or so and will start at the triangular
park opposite the Big Bear Café (located at the corner of 1st
St. and R St. NW) on Saturday, May 25th at 9:00am (rain date
Sun. May 26th at 9:00am). Light liquid refreshments
will be served and a selection of some of our favorite mounted art
photos of McMillan Park offered for sale at the end of the tour, as
well as some lovely greeting cards of those same photos!
Please register by
sending an email to restoremcmillan@gmail.com or
calling Kirby at 202 213-2690. We are limiting the
tour to 30 people or so to ensure all who join it can
hear easily and participate fully. So please register early to
guarantee that you'll be able to be part of this special day.
Kindly note, a suggested
donation of $20 in advance, $25 on the day of the
event to benefit the Friends of McMillan Park's efforts to save this registered national
historic landmark from demolition is greatly appreciated.
Even if you are unable to join our tour, please
consider a donation to help support these efforts. You
can donate via PayPal or Crowdrise links on the web page,
www.friendsofmcmillan.org/merchandise,
or in person with cash or credit card with FOMP's Square account on
the day of the event.
*****News*****
- Friends of McMillan Park
returned to the D.C. Court of Appeals on January 22nd
to present oral arguments challenging the District's
proposed demolition of the site.
Now we anxiously await the court's decision, both for that
most recent hearing and
another hearing on October 17th, which of course we hope
will be in McMillan Park's
favor. We have no idea when the court's decision will come
out.
- Friends of McMillan Park is now a part of
the Amazon Smile program, allowing you to directly and
automatically donate to the Friends of McMillan Park when you shop
on Amazon.com.
See this link for more information: https://smile.amazon.com/ch/46-0977224
Thank you for your continued
interest and support,
John Salatti, Kirby Vining, and Hugh Youngblood
Board of Directors, Friends of McMillan Park, Inc.
If you have any questions, please contact restoremcmillan@gmail.com
or call 202.213.2690.
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