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Whiskeytown National Recreational Area
2nd Annual Amateur Snapshot Exhibition

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Date: February 22, 2007
Contact: Sheila Edridge, (530)396-2353
Contact: Phyllis Swanson, (530)242-3421

The public is invited to submit copies of their favorite “snapshot” for exhibition at the Whiskeytown National Recreation Area Visitor Center. Friends of Whiskeytown, in cooperation with the National Park Service, is asking the public to submit amateur photographs of “park-people-scapes”: snapshots of themselves, their families, and friends picnicking, swimming, horseback riding, fishing, hiking, boating, running, reading…any activity they enjoy at Whiskeytown. The Friends of Whiskeytown will present an exhibit at the Visitor Center of photos showing community members participating in the wide range of activities Whiskeytown offers. Beginning Saturday, June 2nd, and running through mid-summer, July 9th, this exhibition promises to be fun.

 

Photographs must be:

5”X7” in size. Color or black & white.

 

Submitted by mail to:

Friends of Whiskeytown

“Whiskeytown Snapshot Exhibition”

P.O. Box 105

Whiskeytown, CA 96095

                                        Or:

Submit in person at the Whiskeytown Visitor Center, Highway 299 and Kennedy Memorial Drive. Open daily, 10:00 am to 4:00 pm.

 

Deadline to submit: Photographs must be received no later than Sunday, May 15, 2007.

 

Information required:

Participant must write on the back of each snapshot where at Whiskeytown the photo was taken, and what year it was taken.

 

All photographs submitted will become property of the Friends of Whiskeytown and will not be returned. Due to space restrictions, not all snapshots received may be displayed.

 

For more information, contact Sheila Edridge at 246-1225 or 396-2353.

Century + year old orchard; Photographed by Bryan Petrytyl  

Did You Know?
The apricot trees in front of the Lehman Caves Visitor Center in Great Basin National Park are over 100 years old! The trees are thought to have been planted by Absalom Lehman, discoverer of Lehman Caves. These historic fruit trees continue to produce today.

Last Updated: February 22, 2007 at 17:28 EST