Still, the whole thing is a little entertainment-y and forcedly carnivalesque; the number of people wandering about in the distant center-field picnic areas while the action is taking place is weirdly distracting too.
Both parks have ball fields, picnic grounds, tennis courts and ponds.
Just west of the village, Hempstead Lake State Park offers sweeping fields, picnic areas, soccer fields, a lake and three ponds.
In the 1930s and '40s, stately Hudson River Day Liners chugged north from New York City and deposited smartly dressed tourists at the park, which had a dance pavilion, a public swimming pool, ball fields, picnic areas and amusement rides.
Case Park includes hiking trails, large grass fields, picnic tables, a playground and even a butterfly/hummingbird garden.
Four miles up the road from the toxic ground zero of Coconut Grove, in the shadow of the Dolphin Expressway on NW 11th Street near 22nd Avenue, sits Fern Isle Park, a narrow swath of ball fields, picnic pavilions, and the grassed-over remains of an illegal dump used for years by City of Miami work crews.
I remember in the the fields picnicking, playing children's games and picking blackberries.
Eighth prize consists of one Forman & Field luxury picnic, including delivery to any UK mainland address, Tuesday to Saturday.
IN a current print advertisement for the Chubb Group of Insurance Companies, a woman stands in a verdant field, a picnic basket at her side, and shakes open a red sheet to spread on the grass.
The rain was holding up, and at Studio Square, a sleek 21st-century German beer garden near Kaufman Astoria Studios in Queens, the reggae-funk band was setting up outdoors, where people could sway to the rhythms from a field of picnic tables or multiple covered bars.
Five campgrounds, restrooms, an airplane landing field and picnic facilities were also built.
