Picnic

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Picnic

Free Devou Park Picnic and Concert on Saturday July 9, 2011

The Lawyers’ Club of Cincinnati invited all greater Cincinnati lawyers and judges—especially non-members—and their families to a free picnic. The picnic was held on Saturday July 9, 2011 from 4 to 7 pm at the Breaden shelter in Covington's Devou Park.

President Chuck Strain had encouraged all: “Come early for the food, volleyball, Wiffle ball, or cornhole, and stay late for the special concert, or just stop in for a quick bite.” And a record number attended.

At 7:30 pm, the Kentucky Symphony Orchestra presented a moving and thrilling retrospective called The Blue and Gray Revisited at the Devou Park bandshell, just ofver the hill from the Breaden shelter. This free concert celebrated the sesquicentannial of the outbreak of the American Civil War, with special emphasis on the greater Cincinnati story. Most everyone sat on a lawn chair or blanket.

While admission to the picnic (and concert) was absolutely free, donations were accepted for the Lawyers' Club historic charity, giving much-appreciated gifts to every child in a heart-warming December program at Hays-Porter Elementary School in Cincinnati's West End. For more information on this service program, click on Charity at the top of this page.

For map and directions to Devou Park's Breaden Shelter, visit:

http://maps.google.com/

Key in:

1214 Montague Rd, Covington, KY 41011

and click on Directions

For a map of Devou Park, visit:

http://www.covingtonky.gov/documents/Devou_Park_map.pdf

For information on Devou Park, visit:

http://www.devoupark.com/

For historic images of and from Devou Park, visit:

http://www.nkyviews.com/kenton/devou_park_views.htm

For information on the Kentucky Symphony, visit:

http://kyso.org/summer_series.html