Media Contact: Brooke Deane Nicole Fox

Senior Account Manager Marketing Manager

brookekdeane@gmail.com nf@easternstate.org
For Immediate Release
August 17, 2015

EASTERN STATE PENITENTIARY TO HOLD PAINT THE PARK EVENT

Join us as we give back to the Fairmount community.

Philadelphia, PA - Come one, come all! On September 12, 2015, the Eastern State Penitentiary is
throwing a Paint the Park bash for the community to help clean up a park in the Fairmount neighborhood.
Fairmount is filled with parks that could benefit everyone with just a little bit of T.L.C. Bring the whole
family for an afternoon filled with great food, painting, and music.

Paint the Park will take place from 12:00pm-4:00pm at the Francisville Playground, located on 19th street
between Brown street and Fairmount ave. Guests will get the chance to break out their creative side and
decorate brand new playground equipment and picnic tables with paint. The Please Touch Museum and
Blick Art Supplies have generously donated the play sets and painting materials, while the students in
Fairmounts own McMichael Morton School woodshop class have built and donated the picnic tables.
Greensgrow Farms has also donated a tree for the community to plant at the event. Food vendors will
include Tacos Don Memo, Say Cheese mac and cheese, and Zsas Gourmet Ice Cream trucks. Finally, the
Sonic Tempos, an acoustic band started by students in the Fairmount community, will be playing
throughout the event.

Judith Ruvalcaba, a Fairmount Village Community Leader, stated, Its truly great to see one of our citys
most famous historical sites getting so involved in our neighborhood. The Eastern State Penitentiary is
setting a superb example by letting everyone here in Philadelphia know that were just one big
community.

Eastern State Penitentiary was once the most famous and expensive prison in the world, but stands today in ruin, a
haunting world of crumbling cellblocks and empty guard towers. Known for its grand architecture and strict
discipline, this was the world's first true "penitentiary," a prison designed to inspire penitence, or true regret, in the
hearts of convicts. Its vaulted, sky-lit cells once held many of America's most notorious criminals, including bank
robber "Slick Willie" Sutton and Al Capone.

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