Vintage Day Celebration- March 3

Come experience Everglades history at the 2^nd annual Vintage Day Celebration on Saturday March 3rd, 2012 from 10 AM to 3 PM. Park admission at the Homestead entrance will be waived for the day and all activities are free of charge.Events include historical re-enactors, an old fashioned ice cream social and the Guardians of the Everglades exhibit.This is a great opportunity for young and old to interact with the characters that molded Everglades National Park into one of the most biologically and culturally diverse parks in the world.
       At the Ernest F. Coe Visitor Center celebrate the opening of Nicholas Petrucci's multi-media exhibition featuring life-size oil portraits of Everglades advocates and heroes.Portraits of Miccosukee Chairman Buffalo Tiger, Gladesman Franklin Adams, Photographer Clyde Butcher and Statesman Nathaniel Reed will be on display against a backdrop of Connie Bransilver's paintings of endangered native orchids.