2012 Bridgeport
Spring Festival and
150th Anniversary of the Covered Bridge
Herb Lindberg
Friday, Saturday, Sunday,
April 27- 30, 2012
Part 3 of 4
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"It
takes all of you to make the Spring Festival a huge
success! I am very grateful for your participation and enthusiasm.
Please let me know if you have any ideas or ways to improve for next
year. Looking forward to your feedback and seeing you at the Fall
Festival."
Janine Martin -- Festival
Coordinator
This was a very special weekend, so the Park Association, volunteers, and the California Park staff made it into a three-day event. On the first day, 300 local elementary school children were given special tours of the river, spring flowers, the bridge, the barn, and panning for gold. This large group was broken into 150 lower-grade children followed later in the day by 150 children in the upper grades. Each group sang a song of appreciation and love of the river before boarding buses back to their schools. Activities on the second and third days are summarized briefly below.
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Vendors greet visitors as they enter the park past the barn. |
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Settled in for the day |
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Myriad glass works of art |
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Left to right: Russ Abbott, Barbara Tiegs, Elmer
Fairbanks, Howard Voshell, Grover Cleveland |
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Howard Voshell shows a boy how to pump a quart of oil from a dispenser. |
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The boy is happy with his effort and newly-learned skill. |
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Horse-drawn wagon rides all day |
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South Yuba River State Park Rangers |
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Gathered crowd at the day's first showing of "Voices from Bridgeport Past" |
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Panned left to see more of the audience, ... |
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... farther left ... |
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Still farther. |
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During the play (a video is available on Page 2). |
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David I. Wood (Charles Atthill) explains why he bought the bridge at Point Defiance. |
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Close-up of the rapt audience |
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| Page 1 | Day 1, Friday, April 27, 2012. Elementary school children tour the park and sing a song of praise to the river. |
| Page 2 | Day 2, Saturday, April 28, 2012. This was a day of thanks to the many who worked so hard to take SYRSP off the State Parks Department closure list, and celebration of families who lived in what is now Bridgeport, from the Nisenan through the gold rush and on to farming and the Kneebone gas station. A one-act play dramatizing Bridgeport family history was staged this day and repeated twice more on Spring Festival Sunday. |
| Page 3 | Day 3, Sunday, April 29, 2012, the public is invited for all activities at Spring Festival and two showings of the play, Voices From Bridgeport Past. (this page) |
| Page 4 | Day 3, continued. Play audience, John Hart, Mark Lyon, Janine Martin sound effects table, 1919 Ford pickup truck, dam flow-back, plant a flower, make paper flowers, picnic in shade, eat a brownie. |