On the last Sunday of every April, the supporters and friends of Mount Holly gather in the cemetery from 5-7 p.m. for a picnic and entertainment. Funds raised at the picnic help maintain the cemetery as a beautiful historic landmark.
We thank our sponsors for fundraising success!
The festivities include:
Appetizers
Dinner
Wine
Turn of the century picnic “delicacies”
Live music
Guests will have the opportunity for self-guided tours of the cemetery.
Gallery of the Spring Picnic over the years
The now-repaired Basham statues, which were nearly destroyed by vandals in the spring of 2016.
Picnickers check in at the 13th street gate
Guests enjoy the 2010 Spring Picnic
Guests at the 2012 Spring Picnic
Association member and picnic co-organizer Sarah Hopkins (in apron) reviews the auction bids with other guests
Picnic co-organizer and Association member Judy Goss stands next to the silk Mount Holly quilt, created from tombstone iconography and motifs in the cemetery. The quilt was designed and made by Lavern Schaap and donated for the 2017 auction.
Association member Mary Fletcher Worthen framed by the statues of the Basham girls at the 2010 Spring Picnic
Spring Picnic 2018 with board member and Mount Holly Grounds Committee Chair Nancy Phillips (far right)
Brass musicians at the 2010 Spring Picnic
George West and Starr Mitchell of Lark in the Morning provide musical background
Association members MAry Fletcher Worthen and Kay Tatum confer at the 2012 Spring Picnic
2017 Association president Sybil Jordan Hampton and her husband Albert Hampton
Guests enjoy the 2010 Spring Picnic
Guests are transported by golf cart to the center of the cemetery.
Mount Holly welcomes a new generation to enjoy the cemetery
George West and Starr Mitchell of Lark in the Morning provide musical background
Guests are transported by golf cart to the center of the cemetery.
Association member and picnic co-organizer Judy Goss announces entertainment.
Spring Picnic 2018
Entertainment at the 2012 Spring Picnic was a brass band
Guests are transported by golf cart to the center of the cemetery.
Association members Janis Thibault (standing) and Allison Pickell (seated)
Guests enjoy the 2010 Spring Picnic
Costumed Parkview drama students wait to reprise their roles from the 2016 Tales of the Crypt at the 2017 picnic.
Auction items at the 2017 picnic
Spring Picnic 2018
Guests survey the auction tables at the 2010 Spring Picnic
Long-time Association member Mary Fletcher Worthen autographs a copy of Mount Holly’s cookbook, Recipes in Perpetuity at the 2010 Spring Picnic
Association members Kay Tatum and Marjem Gill sell books at the 2012 Spring Picnic
Parkview students help lead a tour at the 2017 picnic
Spring Picnic 2018 with board member Ellison Poe (right)
Association member Susan Borné at the 2015 Spring picnic
Past Association president Frances Cranford arrives with other guests at the 13th Street gate. Mount Holly’s New Dawn roses provide a showy entrance.
Guests at the 2012 Spring Picnic
Guests at the 2012 Spring Picnic
Tour guides and Association members Matilda Buchanan and Marianne Ligon announce the tours at the 2015 picnic
Guests at the 2012 Spring Picnic
Mount Holly patrons Breezy, Mitzi, and Jennings Osborne pose with Association member Mary Fletcher Worthen at the 2010 Spring Picnic
Costumed Parkview drama students prepare to reprise their roles from the 2016 Tales of the Crypt at the 2017 picnic.
Association member Marjem Gill helps at the 2010 Spring Picnic
Guests at the 2012 Spring Picnic
Association member Gladys Whitney and Bill Worthen
Guests at the 2012 Spring Picnic
Furry friends are welcome at Mount Holly!
Association Members Sue Campbell and Trudie Cromwell help at the 2010 Spring Picnic
Tour guide and Association member Marianne Ligon confers with guests
