From: Kirby Vining
Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2018 10:28 PM
Subject: FOMP: Join us for a history walking tour around McMillan Park
through the Bloomingdale neighborhood on Saturday, November 10, 2018
A
notice about our planned walking tour on November 10th, just out
today, about one month before the actual tour.
Thank
you! -Kirby
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Join
us for a history walking tour around McMillan Park
on Saturday, November 10th at 9:00am (rain date: Sat.
Nov. 17th)!
Dear
Friend of McMillan Park,
About a
month from now on
Saturday, November 10th, we are 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 did in 2017,
and in our March, May, and September 2018 tours, that were
very well attended and enjoyed! The weather likely will be
ideal for such a walking tour. This will be our final
tour for the year. We hope to have about four tours per year
and will start up when the weather gets a bit warmer in March or
so, 2019.
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 hours
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, November 10th at 9:00am (rain date Sat., Nov.
17th 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 the
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 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 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 returns to the D.C. Court
of Appeals on October 17th at 9:30am to present
oral arguments challenging the District's
proposed demolition of the site this fall or winter. The
case has been expedited at our request to assure that the
court has a chance to hear our arguments against demolition and, we
hope, overrule the proposed demolition.
For more information on our return to court, see
this link: https://mailchi.mp/eeb9d27e9550/dcca17octber18_930am.
Please
join us at court!
- 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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