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FREE Trolley Rides and lots of FREE fun and history At OcTrolley Fest 2010!
OcTrolleyFest 2010
The OcTrolleyFest celebration will be from 10:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 2. Now in its sixth year, this is a FREE celebration of transportation heritage and community centered around the streetcar lines which first came to Darby in 1858.
This year the celebration is particularly significant because it is the 100th anniversary of Postal Worker Ed Bolden's founding the 1925 Negro Baseball League World Champion Darby Hilldale Baseball Club, the 100th Anniversary of Darby Fire Co. No. 2 and the 235th of Darby No. 1 and other anniversaries. We are also celebrating Buttonwood Park at the new Darby Transportation Center www.darbyhistory.com/Buttonwood and the community we call home.
The day will begin at 10:30 a.m. at the Buttonwood Park, 9th and Main streets, with a dedication of the new historical marker signs and reenactors telling stories of Darby's transportation history. The scene will then shift to Darby Fire Company No. 1 for historical displays, food, music, fun, art contest winners, scarecrow making, a Pumpkin Parade and more. Beginning at Noon there will be FREE rides on a 1947 vintage PCCII Trolley (space permitting) through 365 years of history. Keith Lockhart’s slides of local history and Joe Becton's Evolution of Jazz will round out the day beginning at 3 p.m.
If you would like to experience or learn about “living history,” we can help you research and dress as historical people associated with Darby. These people might include Ed Bolden, John Drew or any of the Hilldales who are now in the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown.
We are hoping for visits from W.C. Fields, trolley and civil rights activists William Still and Octavius Catto (who are buried up the hill from Darby in Eden Cemetery), Lucretia Mott, Thomas Garratt, singer Marion Anderson (who is also buried at Eden), as well as other figures connected with Darby’s rich history.
These people are important icons of our past and worthy inspirations for today.
Living History is a different and engaging way to experience and/or teach history and Historical Interpretation is a valuable skill.
More information can be found on the Web site http://www.octrolleyfest.org/ or by calling 610-583-0788.
The OcTrolleyFest celebration will be from 10:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 2. Now in its sixth year, this is a FREE celebration of transportation heritage and community centered around the streetcar lines which first came to Darby in 1858.
This year the celebration is particularly significant because it is the 100th anniversary of Postal Worker Ed Bolden's founding the 1925 Negro Baseball League World Champion Darby Hilldale Baseball Club, the 100th Anniversary of Darby Fire Co. No. 2 and the 235th of Darby No. 1 and other anniversaries. We are also celebrating Buttonwood Park at the new Darby Transportation Center www.darbyhistory.com/Buttonwood and the community we call home.
The day will begin at 10:30 a.m. at the Buttonwood Park, 9th and Main streets, with a dedication of the new historical marker signs and reenactors telling stories of Darby's transportation history. The scene will then shift to Darby Fire Company No. 1 for historical displays, food, music, fun, art contest winners, scarecrow making, a Pumpkin Parade and more. Beginning at Noon there will be FREE rides on a 1947 vintage PCCII Trolley (space permitting) through 365 years of history. Keith Lockhart’s slides of local history and Joe Becton's Evolution of Jazz will round out the day beginning at 3 p.m.
If you would like to experience or learn about “living history,” we can help you research and dress as historical people associated with Darby. These people might include Ed Bolden, John Drew or any of the Hilldales who are now in the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown.
We are hoping for visits from W.C. Fields, trolley and civil rights activists William Still and Octavius Catto (who are buried up the hill from Darby in Eden Cemetery), Lucretia Mott, Thomas Garratt, singer Marion Anderson (who is also buried at Eden), as well as other figures connected with Darby’s rich history.
These people are important icons of our past and worthy inspirations for today.
Living History is a different and engaging way to experience and/or teach history and Historical Interpretation is a valuable skill.
More information can be found on the Web site http://www.octrolleyfest.org/ or by calling 610-583-0788.
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