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Families continue to bury deceased family members in its consecrated ground and there is an annual church picnic and service on Midsummer Day in June . Christmas services are held on the second weekend of December. The church is decorated by youth from First Lutheran Church and is lit by hundreds of candles.
Sunday school and church picnics and Fourth of July celebrations were held there, and the young folks had food stands, baseball games, and patriotic programs. At Christmas time, a manger scene was set up in the grove with life-size mannequins dressed as the Holy Family with bales of straw in the background and lights. [5]
A Picnic Party by Thomas Cole, 1846. A picnic is a meal taken outdoors as part of an excursion, especially in scenic surroundings, such as a park, lakeside, or other place affording an interesting view, or else in conjunction with a public event such as preceding an open-air theater performance, [1] and usually in summer or spring.
“It’s a great vibe...everyone just seems to be having a good time.”
These locations rated among the best picnic spots in the country in a Mixbook survey of 3,000 respondent.
Kirchenfest, which is German for "Church Festival," is one of the largest church festivals in Southern Illinois. [1] The event spreads over six acres on the grounds of St. Paul Parish. It originally began in 1970. The festival has a German theme, as the Highland, Illinois community is primarily Swiss and German heritage. Events at the Kirchenfest:
They staged events to raise funds, had their own dances and picnics. They painted houses for poor families and stuffed acres of envelopes. [9] In the following years the club hosted a community center called the Omaha DePorres Center to meet the needs of low-income families, and eventually started branches in Denver and Kansas City. [10]
The American People Series #12: The Family Plan (1964) [3] The American People Series #13: God Bless America ... Church Picnic (1988), High Museum of Art, Atlanta [100]