Notable Days & Events

Earth Day - April 22nd - Join us in celebrating and appreciating our planet Earth with a nature walk around Parker Mill and Huron trails . We’ll also be creating the ever popular circular Pour Paintings in earth colors to fill our Resident Artwork Display space!

In May, we will showcase a Resident Picture

Exhibit for National Photography Month . In conjunction with our Photography Workshop, we’ll also be creating a body of work that captures our community members and the things they hold dear to their heart .

Mother's Day - May 8th - is a celebration honoring the mother of the family or individual, as well as motherhood, maternal bonds, and the influence of mothers in society . Anna Jarvis of Philadelphia, whose mother had organized women’s groups to promote friendship and health, originated Mother’s Day and in 1914 U .S . Pres . Woodrow Wilson made it a national holiday . Did you know that more phone calls are made on Mother’s Day than any other day of the year? Join us for a Sunday Social with live music to celebrate the mother in all of us . The Kentucky Derby - May 7th - is a horse race held annually in Louisville, Kentucky, United States, capping the two-week-long Kentucky Derby Festival . The competition is a Grade I stakes race for three-year-old Thoroughbreds at a distance of one and a quarter miles at Churchill Downs . We’ll be watching heartfelt films and historical documentaries, and creating extravagant hats to wear as we watch the races in our Mill Pub!

Father’s Day Social - Father’s Day in the United States is a holiday (third Sunday in June) to honor fathers . Credit for originating the holiday is generally given to Sonora Smart Dodd of Spokane, WA, whose father, a Civil War veteran, raised her and her five siblings after their mother died in childbirth . President Nixon established it as a national holiday in 1972 . Join us in celebrating with a Sunday Social .

Juneteenth - June 19 - We will commemorate this day with a documentary on Juneteenth’s history and a celebration of freedom . Juneteenth commemorates the day when emancipation reached enslaved people in the deepest parts of the South . It wasn't until June 19, 1865, two months after the Civil War ended and more than two and a half years after the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation, that Union Gen . Gordon Granger and more than a thousand U .S . troops shared the news of freedom with the 250,000 enslaved people in the state . The anniversary of that day is celebrated as one of the best-regarded African American holidays in this country .