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| 1 | HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| 2 | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of | ||||||
| 3 | Representatives are pleased to honor the organizers of the | ||||||
| 4 | Trask Bridge Picnic Tribute for their work in paying tribute to | ||||||
| 5 | the old Trask Bridge Picnic; and
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| 6 | WHEREAS, In the fall of 1909, the Burritt Grange #1759 was | ||||||
| 7 | organized; the newly formed Burritt Grange was officially | ||||||
| 8 | chartered on January 10, 1910; and
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| 9 | WHEREAS, In the fall of 1910, four Burritt farmers decided | ||||||
| 10 | to set up a local Harvest Picnic for their area; after making | ||||||
| 11 | big plans for the event and arranging for various dealers and | ||||||
| 12 | entertainment vendors to attend, the farmers held the first | ||||||
| 13 | picnic in late August of 1909 on the Scott farm on Cemetery | ||||||
| 14 | Road; hoping to have as many as 150 people show up for the | ||||||
| 15 | picnic, the men were shocked to find that over 1,000 people | ||||||
| 16 | arrived from northern Illinois and southern Wisconsin; and
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| 17 | WHEREAS, With the original picnic a resounding success, the | ||||||
| 18 | Burritt farmers, exhausted from their tireless work, decided to | ||||||
| 19 | get the Burritt Grange to sponsor the following year's picnic; | ||||||
| 20 | after the group agreed to sponsor the event, the Trask Bridge | ||||||
| 21 | Picnic was born; the picnic of 1911 was held in Andrew's Grove, | ||||||
| 22 | where many school picnics, Sunday School picnics, and family | ||||||
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| 1 | gatherings were held; the picnics were continually held in | ||||||
| 2 | Andrew's Grove until 1965, with the exception of 1932, when a | ||||||
| 3 | new highway was being built, and 1942 to 1945, due to the | ||||||
| 4 | ongoing struggle of World War II; and
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| 5 | WHEREAS, At the height of the Trask Bridge Picnic's | ||||||
| 6 | success, as many as 50,000 to 60,000 people attended the | ||||||
| 7 | picnic, which was always a one-day affair from 8:00 A.M. until | ||||||
| 8 | 7:00 P.M.; unfortunately, as time went on, procuring help for | ||||||
| 9 | the picnic became harder to come by and the picnic came to an | ||||||
| 10 | end on August 26, 1965; and
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| 11 | WHEREAS, Starting in 2004, an annual Trask Bridge Picnic | ||||||
| 12 | Tribute was held on a smaller scale than the original picnic in | ||||||
| 13 | order to celebrate the heritage of the original event and to | ||||||
| 14 | renew old acquaintances in the area; the Tribute Picnic is | ||||||
| 15 | currently sponsored by the Burritt Museum; therefore, be it
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| 16 | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | ||||||
| 17 | NINETY-SIXTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we | ||||||
| 18 | honor the organizers of the Trask Bridge Picnic Tribute for | ||||||
| 19 | their work and wish them continued success and happiness in the | ||||||
| 20 | future; and be it further
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| 21 | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | ||||||
| 22 | presented to the organizers of the Trask Bridge Picnic Tribute | ||||||
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| 1 | as a symbol of our esteem and respect.
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