Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SUNDAY, April 22, 1990 TAG: 9004220270
SECTION: HORIZON PAGE: F-7 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: The Associated Press
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
These are some of the events the Eastern United States has in store this season:
\ Sunfest, West Palm Beach, Fla., May 3-6. This is Florida's largest jazz festival, featuring blues, jazz, fine arts, traditional crafts, water races, and children's activities, staged along the city's waterfront. There are the Juried Art Show, in which painters, sculptors, photographers and jewelry makers compete for prizes, and the Marketplace, where homespun crafts from the United States and abroad are available. For more information call (407) 659-5992.
\ Welcome Back to Brooklyn Celebration, Brooklyn, N.Y., June through August. Often overshadowed by its Manhattan neighbor, Brooklyn by itself still ranks as the nation's fourth largest city.
But the Borough of Brooklyn stands alone with a 250,000-person block party on June 10 and follows up with Celebrate Brooklyn, a free summertime arts and entertainment series held in the Prospect Park Bandshell weekend evenings during July and August. Guided bus tours of Brooklyn, starting from Manhattan, also are planned. Contact the Fund for the Borough of Brooklyn, (718) 855-7882.
\ Independence Day Weekend, South Street Seaport, New York City, July 3-4. This year's holiday festival salutes the legendary jazz trumpeter Louis Armstrong with live concerts on the Seaport piers. Visitors can tour the historic district and top off the entertainment with a musically choreographed fireworks show over the East River at 9 p.m. on July 3.
\ Benjamin Franklin 1990 Celebration in Philadelphia. All year.
If Ben Franklin had put his ingenuity to work to think up a tourism campaign theme, he couldn't have done better than to reincarnate himself in time for the opening of the Franklin Institute's $65 million Futures Center, the only museum in the world dedicated to science and technology in the 21st century.
This opening coincides with the 250th anniversary celebration of the University of Pennsylvania, which he founded.
Philadelphia has mounted a yearlong celebration of Franklin's genius with "electrifying" exhibits, themed weekends, and tours of Franklin Court at Independence National Historical Park, the site of Franklin's home, print shop and post office.
Naturally, a white-haired gentleman wearing a lace jabot and spectacles appears at many of these doings. For more information, call the Convention & Visitors Bureau at (215) 636-1666.
\ The Mountain Dance and Folk Festival, Asheville, N.C., August.
This country celebration in the Blue Ridge Mountains continues for its 63rd year.
\ Pets and People Exhibit, Philadelphia, through Sept. 3. The relationship between humans and animals from their evolution as competitors for food to companions for life is explored at this exhibition at the Academy of Natural Sciences Museum in Philadelphia.
There are live animal demonstrations, a Pick-a-Pet interactive display that matches pet to prospective owner, displays on animal ancestry, working animals and the Pet Hall of Fame. The information number is (215) 299-1000.
by CNB