Winter Lovefest at Palmer Park

Project Description

Come Join the Detroit Spartans and MSUBA-OC at WinterLovefest in support of People for Palmer Park. People for Palmer Park will celebrate love and Black History at its free family-friendly Winter LoveFest on February 11, 2023 from 2-5 pm. The pre-Valentine’s Day community event will be held in and around the historic Palmer Log Cabin, decorated in hearts and proudly displaying beautiful new chandeliers, restored woodwork, and Victorian pocket doors, and fresh paint.

Volunteer Duties: Volunteers will be helping to assist People for Palmer Park with their WinterFest Celebration in and around the historic Log Cabin! This fun community event will have a pre-Valentines "Love Your Park" and Black History Theme.

• Volunteers will be helping with any of the following:
  • • Horse and Carriage Rides
  • • arts and crafts with children (including making Valentine's cards for hospitalized children and veterans)
  • • games with children
  • • keeping the fire pits going
  • • serving refreshments
  • • welcoming and check-in
  • • tours in the Log Cabin
  • • weather permitting, helping in the ice skating area and with snow shoe activities
• This also includes helping with the breakdown and clean up of the event
• They will also be collecting books for the Park’s Little Free Libraries and hats/mittens/gloves/scarves (especially for children) to give away to those in need 

 

Community Partner - People for Palmer Park

People for Palmer Park Accommodations

• Must be 18 years or older
• Please dress warm and for the weather, this even takes place outside. Gloves, hats, and boots are highly recommended
• Additional registration or documentation required: pfppwinterfestvolunteers2023.eventbrite.com
  Please sign up for a shift between 3pm-6pm

About People for Palmer Park

About the Park: Palmer Park is comprised of 296 acres of lawns and historic woodlands, tennis courts, splash park, hiking and biking trails, Lake Frances and its lighthouse, an historic log cabin, the Detroit Mounted Police and more. Located between McNichols and 7 Mile Roads and west of Woodward Avenue in Detroit, it has been a treasured nature park and recreation site for more than 100 years. 

Designed in the late 1800s in part by Frederick Law Olmsted and Charles Eliot, and donated by Thomas W. Palmer to the City of Detroit, Palmer Park links Detroit's splendorous and philanthropic past to today's need for public forests and green spaces in the city. The park is bordered by impressive historic neighborhoods, the private Detroit Golf Club, and the Art Deco Palmer Park historic apartment district.

Palmer Park is the largest Virgin Forest (also termed primary forest, primeval forest, late seral forest, ancient woodland) in the Tri-County area, and one of only seven in the City of Detroit. In Palmer Park, there is a true Oak-Beech Climax forest and some of the oaks exceeding 350 years in age were planted by Mother Nature herself. Improvements and changes made by PFPP in the park are mindful of this, and aim to ensure that the park will become self-sustaining, protected and a treasure to be enjoyed by all for generations to come.

Who They Are: People for Palmer Park ("PFPP") grew out of strong neighborhood concern for the viability of Palmer Park ("the Park"), which was in part inspired by the City's announcement in 2009 that it planned to close the Park. Led by enthusiastic tennis players, a grassroots movement of residents and neighbors from all surrounding communities began meeting and organizing. Many of those early organizers remain active with PFPP today.

In 2011, PFPP and the City of Detroit Parks and Recreation Department, under the guidance of General Services, began exploring a potential partnership agreement. PFPP and the Detroit City Department of Parks and Recreation, which retains policy control, has discretion over all user permits and events in the park, and provides the current field staff to keep Palmer Park open and sustainable.

 

Website: https://www.peopleforpalmerpark.org/ 

Project Date

Feb. 11, 2023

Project Locations and Shifts

Palmer Log Cabin
910 Merrill Plaisance St
Detroit, MI 48203

• 3 - 6:30 p.m.
  (3 spots available)

Project Coordinator

Rachel Woods
woodsra4@gmail.com
(734) 776-2775

Volunteer registration is closed.
If you would like to volunteer, please contact Rachel Woods at woodsra4@gmail.com or (734) 776-2775 .