Mark your calendars for Sunday, June 28th for the highlight of the summer season.
SARPA does our garden strolls every other year (because though they are a lot of fun, they are also a lot of work!) In 2013, we focused on the area between Lexington and Chatsworth, and people responded that they liked the walkability of keeping the tour to a concentrated area. So this year, we are focusing on the oldest part of Summit, stretching from Dale Street east to the Cathedral.
Included as one of the ten featured gardens will be the extraordinary, French-inspired gardens belonging to Les and Eileen Meltzer, plus a variety of other stops. We also invite you to stop at the lovely public gardens at that end of the Avenue, including Cochran Park, Nathan Hale Park, and the newly-redesigned Lookout Park.
Tickets remain the same price as past years - $10. Instead of an organized tea location, we have opened it up for budding entrepreneurs to sell beverages along the route. Lemonade stands anyone?
Look for tickets to be sold online (SARPA.org), with Brown Paper Tickets, and at Frattalone’s Ace Hardware Stores and Kowalski’s on Grand Avenue by Memorial Day Weekend.
Proceeds from this year’s event will go to support our upcoming Pedestrian Traffic Safety study. We want to focus on preserving Summit Avenue as the most-walked, noncommercial boulevard in America!
How can you get involved? Well, we still need gardens on the east end of Summit, and we want to present a wide variety. We also need a number of volunteers for the event (your shift will only be for half the time, and you will get a free ticket so you can tour during the other half). And of course, we need ticket-buyers — why not bring a group and make a day of it?
2 comments:
I'm excited to see that you're having the garden stroll tea this year! It looks like the garden stroll is $10.00 and the tea is $12.00. What will be served for the tea? It looks like it may just be vendors on the street?
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