Friends for the East Cobb Park announces fall event schedule

East Cobb first day of autumn

Concerts, garden activities and the annual lighting of the Christmas tree make up fall 2024 events at East Cobb Park.

The non-profit volunteer organization Friends for the East Cobb Park this week announced a variety of free activities that are open to the public, starting this coming Tuesday, Aug. 27.

That’s a workday for a new special garden planned by the East Cobb Garden Club, a part of the Friends organization.

Tuesday’s event begins bright and early at 8:30 a.m. Tuesday, followed by a garden club meeting and workday on Saturday, Sept. 7 at 9 a.m. (see full fall schedule below).

What’s being called “Sunny’s Butterly Garden” is named in honor of the late Sunny Walker, a key figure in the creation of East Cobb Park (our story from April).

It will be an all-season garden featuring more than two dozen types of flowers, covering several hundred square feet. The garden is being designed by Lyn Cohen, head of the East Cobb Park Garden Club, who’s a professional landscape architect.

To be planted include redbuds, Black-Eyed Susans, daffodils, hydrangeas and other varietals.

The Music in the Park concert series returns with two dates in September and two more in October, along with a family movie screening in October.

As fall turns to winter, the park once again will stage the Holiday Lights tradition on Dec. 8, including a visit from Santa Claus, plenty of festive music of the season and refreshments.

For more about Friends for the East Cobb Park-sponsored events, click here.

Cobb PARKS handles reservations for picnic pavilions at East Cobb Park. You can do that by clicking here, or by contactingSheila Kracalaat (770) 591-3160 or email her directly Sheila.kracala@cobbcounty.org.

 

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