Annual Spring Picnic

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.

Because of concerns about the coronavirus, the 2020 Spring Picnic was canceled and the 2021 Spring Picnic was limited to a drive-through experience. Since 2022, we have hosted the picnic without the silent auction on the grounds with a fall-back option of a drive-through picnic in case of rain or another deadly surge of Covid-19 cases.

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 to have self-guided tours of the cemetery.

If you would like to buy a ticket and support the 2025 Spring Picnic please fill out the information below and join us Sunday, April 27, 2025 at 5pm on the grounds of Mount Holly Cemetery.  The entrance will be on 13th Street.  We look forward to seeing you!!

 

Gallery of the Spring Picnic over the years

 

 

 

The now-repaired Basham statues, which were nearly destroyed by vandals in the spring of 2016.

 

 

 

 

Guests at the 2012 Spring Picnic

 

Spring Picnic 2018

 

Association member Marjem Gill helps at the 2010 Spring Picnic

 

 

 

 

Guests are transported by golf cart to the center of the cemetery.

 

2017 Association president Sybil Jordan Hampton and her husband Albert Hampton

 

Furry friends are welcome at Mount Holly!

 

Association members Kay Tatum and Marjem Gill sell books at the 2012 Spring Picnic

 

 

 

 

Auction items at the 2017 picnic

 

 

 

 

Mount Holly patrons Breezy, Mitzi, and Jennings Osborne pose with Association member Mary Fletcher Worthen at the 2010 Spring Picnic

 

 

Guests at the 2012 Spring Picnic

 

Association member Susan Borné at the 2015 Spring picnic

 

 

 

 

 

 

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 members Janis Thibault (standing) and Allison Pickell (seated)

 

 

 

 

Association member Mary Fletcher Worthen framed by the statues of the Basham girls at the 2010 Spring Picnic

 

 

 

Association member and picnic co-organizer Sarah Hopkins (in apron) reviews the auction bids with other guests

 

Tour guides and Association members Matilda Buchanan and Marianne Ligon announce the tours at the 2015 picnic

 

 

Association members MAry Fletcher Worthen and Kay Tatum confer at the 2012 Spring Picnic

 

 

 

Guests at the 2012 Spring Picnic

 

Guests at the 2012 Spring Picnic

 

 

Spring Picnic 2018

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Spring Picnic 2018 with board member and Mount Holly Grounds Committee Chair Nancy Phillips (far right)

 

Guests survey the auction tables at the 2010 Spring Picnic

 

 

 

Costumed Parkview drama students wait to reprise their roles from the 2016 Tales of the Crypt at the 2017 picnic.

 

 

 

 

Spring Picnic 2018 with board member Ellison Poe (right)

 

Past Association president Frances Cranford arrives with other guests at the 13th Street gate. Mount Holly’s New Dawn roses provide a showy entrance.

 

George West and Starr Mitchell of Lark in the Morning provide musical background

 

Guests enjoy 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

 

Guests are transported by golf cart to the center of the cemetery.

 

 

 

 

Parkview students help lead a tour at the 2017 picnic

 

 

 

 

Entertainment at the 2012 Spring Picnic was a brass band

 

Picnickers check in at the 13th street gate

 

 

 

 

Guests at the 2012 Spring Picnic

 

Mount Holly welcomes a new generation to enjoy the cemetery

 

 

Association member and picnic co-organizer Judy Goss announces entertainment.

 

Association Members Sue Campbell and Trudie Cromwell help at the 2010 Spring Picnic

 

Guests at the 2012 Spring Picnic

 

Costumed Parkview drama students prepare to reprise their roles from the 2016 Tales of the Crypt at the 2017 picnic.

 

 

Guests are transported by golf cart to the center of the cemetery.

 

Brass musicians at the 2010 Spring Picnic

 

 

Guests enjoy the 2010 Spring Picnic

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Association member Gladys Whitney and Bill Worthen

 

Guests enjoy the 2010 Spring Picnic

 

George West and Starr Mitchell of Lark in the Morning provide musical background

 

Tour guide and Association member Marianne Ligon confers with guests