Full Text of HR0562 96th General Assembly
HR0562 96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 22 |
| presented to the organizers of the Trask Bridge Picnic Tribute |
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| as a symbol of our esteem and respect.
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