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Join us for a history
walking tour around McMillan Park on Saturday,
March 23rd at 9:00am (rain date: Sun. Mar. 24th) - our
first tour of 2019!
Dear
Friend of McMillan Park,
About ten days from now on
Saturday, March 23rd, 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 that were very
well attended and enjoyed! The weather we hope will be
ideal for such a walking tour. This
is our first tour of 2019. We hope to have about four tours
per year though no dates for subsequent tours. Space still
available!
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, March 23rd at
9:00am (rain date Sun. Mar. 24th 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 our favor, or rather
in McMillan Park's favor. We have no idea when the court's
decision will come out, or if
the court will decide to combine both the zoning appeal and
the historic preservation
appeal into one decision.
- 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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