Fairy Tales and Festivals

The Citizens to Preserve Overton Park are pleased to be a part of several big upcoming events.

Virginia Ralph's musical about the Forest, "An Old Forest Fairy Tale" starts a 3 week run beginning tonight at the Evergreen Theatre.  CPOP, which helped sponsor the run with your donations and advance ticket purchases, will be hosting a special performance at 7 p.m. on Friday September 28.  This special show will include a reception at 6 p.m. and a discussion of the historic battle by citizen activists to save the Forest and Overton Park from Interstate 40.  Participating in the discussion will be playwright Virginia Ralph, historian Jimmy Ogle, original CPOP attorney Charlie Newman and one of the original CPOP activists, Sunshine Snyder.  If you can't make this show and panel, check out Chris Davis' great profile of the play and the original struggle in this week's Memphis Flyer cover story, Into the Woods.  The play will run through Saturday, September 29th.

Also, this Saturday, September 15th, CPOP will be at the 2012 Cooper Young Festival.  We'll be offering t-shirts with our new design, by artist Dakoda Davis, and greeting the Forest's supporters at the corner of Cooper and Evelyn from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m.  Come see us!

The Old Forest, by Dakoda Davis