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On Saturday June 22nd, the Minneapolis Parks Legacy
Society (M.P.L.S.) hosted a Picnic in the Park at The Historic Theodore Wirth
Home and Administration Building at 3954 Bryant Avenue South in Lyndale
Farmstead Park.
At 1pm Mayor RT Rybak gave a proclamation and
discussed the benefits of the planning of the Minneapolis Park System to our
lives today. Park Commissioner Vivian Mason, and City Councilmen
Dan Niziolek and Scott Benson spoke as well.
With 500 people in attendance, the M.P.L.S. gave
free tours of this important building which they just had listed on the
National Register of Historic Places.
People stood outside in long lines to get in
to "their house." Inside they learned about the importance of the visionary
park planning (and the establishment of the active recreation programs) of their
city and how it affects our high quality of life in the city even 100 years
later.
The event, which was originally scheduled to end at
3pm, ended abruptly at 2:30 because of a conflict in the request for
access with the current tenant who rents the building.
The Minneapolis Parks Legacy Society would like to
apologize to those of you who had your tour interrupted or were turned away at
the door.
We appreciate all of you who were able to
attend and showed an interest in this important building and the
Minneapolis Park System.
Sincerely
Joan Berthiaume
and
Theodore J Wirth
co founders
Minneapolis Parks Legacy
Society
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