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Pinckney Potluck Picnic scheduled for June 22 in Clinton Park – planning starts now!

The Annual Pinckney Potluck Picnic is scheduled for Saturday June 22 in Clinton Park starting at 11:30. This year we will again have kids arts & crafts and other entertainment, and we also will have a coat and jacket drive that will provide donations to the Scotch Cleaners’ “Share the Warmth” campaign. If you are interested in helping out with the picnic planning process and/or our annual fund raising effort for PNA, your first opportunity to get involved will be Sunday April 28 at 1:00. We’ll be meeting at Pat Miller’s house – 345 Mississippi (NW corner of 4^th & Mississippi). If you’re interested in helping plan the Picnic and/or helping with fundraising but can’t make it on Sunday, please just send an email to Pinckney.Neighborhood@gmail.com or call Pat at 785-550-6958.

 

April 24, 2013 · pgmiller · No Comments
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• Changing our Neighborhood Name

  Our neighborhood name of “Pinckney” was recently changed to “Pinkney.” This change occurred because Pinckney with a ‘c’ was associated with Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, a Revolutionary War general who signed the Constitution and who also was a slaveholder who believed slavery was fundamental to the American way of life (he owned a large plantation in South Carolina). Given this problematic history, neighborhood residents voted to change our neighborhood name. To learn more about the year-long process, go to our dedicated webpage. The final round of voting ultimately landed on the name of “Pinkney” in honor of William Pinkney, who gave a famous anti-slavery speech in 1789.