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This printed announcement for the "second annual meeting" makes it sound like an official event. Brookside Park still exists in Indianapolis, near 16th Street and N. Rural St., northeast of the downtown. It might have had a different character in 1909 -- it's on a rail line, and could have been a popular destination for excursion parties. It might have been less a "public park" in today's sense than an "amusement park" in the 1890s sense, when every city had its "Grove" or "Gardens." The Washington County Reunion could have been a promotional event on the order of Louisville's Fontaine Ferry Park "Washington County Days" on summer Sundays half a century later. Wouldn't you like to see what came out of the "well filled baskets"?
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