 My name is Kate Shamba from the Portland Parks Conservancy. I'm coming from you to you from Lincoln Park on this absolutely stunning day to tell you a few things about my organization and some cool things that are coming to this park and other parks around Portland. The Portland Parks Conservancy is a small young nonprofit that helps enhance the parks around Portland. We work very closely with Parks and Rec and the people of Portland to make sure that needs and wants are being met in the different parks around Portland. This year would have been Olmstead's 200th birthday. Frederick Law Olmstead is an architect who designed landscapes and public parks around the entire country. He did Central Park, the Chicago World Fair, Yosemite National Park and many parks that you might find very familiar, including the Emerald Necklace in Boston. Inspired by the Emerald Necklace, he came up, or his firm, came up to Portland to design something similar to connect the parks around Portland. You can thank the Bat Cove to some of his work, as well as many other parks in Portland to his inspiration. To celebrate his work and the things that he made possible around the United States, we are celebrating his birthday around the country in different parks for free public events celebrating something called Olmstead 200. In Portland we're taking a little bit further. We have events public and free to everyone in all the different parks around Portland. Friends of Lincoln Park are putting on a concert series, four concerts, four Tuesdays in a row, free and open to the public for local artists. We also have other events going on. Sail Main is putting on an event of colorful, painted sails, setting sail off of Casco Bay. Come watch them buy Sail Main or in Amethyst Park by Ocean Gateway. We have other events going on, such as a documentary being put on in Congress Square Park about Olmstead and all his work and the things that he made possible. And finally we are going to have a big open picnic in Amethyst Park down by Ocean Gateway. On September 10th, we'll have food trucks, we'll have live music and a whole lot of fun. So feel free to come join us.