Overview
About the event
National Picnic Month
Throughout the recorded history of civilization, there has always been something special about leaving the stuffy confines of your home and eating a meal outdoors. We know there�??s a beautiful world out there waiting for us to come visit it, and when summer comes around we�??re reminded just how much time we�??ve been locked inside or being eager to come in from the cold. The word �??picnic�?? is thought to have first been used by Tony Willis in 1692, and from that point forward everyone from the working class to the upper crust have been fascinated with taking their repast outside under the sky.
Picnics have been used for many things throughout the centuries, from a simply family gathering spent enjoying the outdoors, to being used as a peaceful protest in the Pan-European Picnic, which was held on the Hungarian/Austrian border in 1989. The most notable, and largest, picnic ever held spanned 600 miles, crossing France from coast to coast and celebrated the millennium�??s first Bastille Day in 2000. Such a diverse resume for such a simple concept, don�??t you think? National Picnic Month celebrates the history of this activity and the way it has been used to bring families, countries, and all humanity together.
Throughout the recorded history of civilization, there has always been something special about leaving the stuffy confines of your home and eating a meal outdoors. We know there�??s a beautiful world out there waiting for us to come visit it, and when summer comes around we�??re reminded just how much time we�??ve been locked inside or being eager to come in from the cold. The word �??picnic�?? is thought to have first been used by Tony Willis in 1692, and from that point forward everyone from the working class to the upper crust have been fascinated with taking their repast outside under the sky.
Picnics have been used for many things throughout the centuries, from a simply family gathering spent enjoying the outdoors, to being used as a peaceful protest in the Pan-European Picnic, which was held on the Hungarian/Austrian border in 1989. The most notable, and largest, picnic ever held spanned 600 miles, crossing France from coast to coast and celebrated the millennium�??s first Bastille Day in 2000. Such a diverse resume for such a simple concept, don�??t you think? National Picnic Month celebrates the history of this activity and the way it has been used to bring families, countries, and all humanity together.
