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Even more turn of the century kids who played at the Ney on May Day
Courtesy Austin Public Library
skating rink and a very popular dance pavilion frequented by the university students. Six to seven thousand people were reported to have attended a Fourth of July barbecue at the Hyde Park Fairgrounds in 1892 (Austin's population: 15,000). Ney also enjoyed entertaining at Formosa during her fifteen-year residence. Guests included legislators, prominent clubwomen and visiting artists including Madame Ernestine Schumann-Heink and, reportedly, Enrico Caruso and Sarah Bernhardt. Ney particularly enjoyed entertaining children with dress-up picnics and gondola rides on her lake.
    The May 4 celebration at the Ney will include a traditional maypole, nineteenth-century games, music and refreshments. Photographs of turn-of-the-century Hyde Park and Austin will also be displayed. Descriptive materials from other historic artists' homes and studios noted by the National Trust in its new Historic Artists' Homes and Studios program will be on view.
    Additional Preservation Week related activities in Austin include the Heritage Society of Austin's annual Homes Tour, this year of Pemberton Heights, on Saturday, May 10, and the statewide Texas Historical Commission annual conference convening at the Driscoll Hotel May 15. Last year, Hyde Park was the feature of National Preservation Week in Austin on the occasion of the dedication of the Hyde Park National Marker in Shipe Park.

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