SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24  4-7pm

SYCAMORE MESS HALL, enter park from US70/Glenwood Ave entrance

William B. Umstead State Park turns 90 this year!  Our Park was established in 1934 by the National Park Service Park to provide jobs during the Great Depression to build a forested recreational park.  As part of our beginnings, tens of thousands of trees were planted to restore eroded marginal farmland, Sycamore Lake was created and group camps were built.  Sycamore Group camp was the first built.  By 1990, the Sycamore Mess Hall was proposed to be destroyed due to lack of maintenance funds. Umstead Coalition fought to save the Sycamore mess hall and cabins.  Today, all the Park’s forested landscape and its historic buildings are protected by their 1995 listing in the National Register of Historic Places (Register Reference Number is 95000783, https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47718645; Summary pages here).  The Umstead Coalition is actively working to restore the Sycamore Mess hall; volunteers have already contributed several thousands of hours-truly a community effort!

To celebrate, we are holding a 92nd Anniversary Birthday Bash!   Fittingly, we will hold our Birthday Bash at the Sycamore Mess Hall, near the Sycamore Multi-use trail head, which can be reached by entering the Park from the US70/Glenwood Avenue Park entrance.

Dress code is casual with suggestion to wear your "best flannel shirt"!

This event will feature:

• Concert featuring:
• • Nixon, Williams and Gage (bluegrass)
  • Bett Padgett (folk)
  • Austin T Johnson jazz trio
    
• Hands-on Origami lesson by Barbara Pearl
• Appetizers and dinner (including make-your own cheeseburger sliders and chicken sliders from Clouds Brewing; humas/pita bread, super salad, and spanakopita from Sassool; birthday cake and more!
• Beer and selzer selections by Clouds Brewing
• Award winning root beer by Clouds Brewing
• Red and white wine choices
• Free lemonade and water. popcorn
• 4-5pm Austin T Johnson jazz trio
• 5-6pm Concert by Bett Padgett: Traditional, folk and original songs and stories - she will "edutain" us all!
• 6-7pm Concert Nixon, Williams and Gage
• 4-5pmSocial
• Silent Auction
• Door Prizes
• Raffle for outdoor grill
• Flannel shirt contest

This is a ticketed event with all proceeds serving William B. Umstead State Park.   Ticketed entry of $25 for adults (children 12 and under enter free when accompanied by an adult

• Social with music and hors d'oeuvres
• Birthday cake!

Volunteers will receive free entry and 1 free beverage (beer, wine, root beer)

The event has a ticket limit of 150 people.