Rally Press Release

For Immediate Release Artist Rallies the Troops and…the Seminole Indians, in Post Office Cause

FORT LAUDERDALE, FLORIDA - As a public art performance piece, "Sister Robin" Merrill is organizing an historical reenactment rally to help save the local post office. At "high noon" Saturday May 5th in the All Saints Church backyard, 333 Tarpon Drive, the public is invited to join together with the Seminole Tribe, Boy Scouts, a Frank Stranahan impersonator, the Fort Lauderdale Mounted Police, elected officials and a few live alligators to "Celebrate our Postal History".
Mail will be paddled down the New River by Everett Osceola and Pedro Zepeda of the Ah Tah Thi Ki Seminole Museum in a dugout canoe, with mailbags handed off to them at the historic Stranahan House, site of Fort Lauderdale's first post office, by an impersonator of the first postmaster, Frank Stranahan. At All Saints Episcopal Church along the New River, the Fort Lauderdale Mounted Police will imitate the Pony Express and receive the mailbags from the Seminoles. Live alligators, snakes and turtles will be on hand at the Rally in an educational display by Native Village of the Hollywood Seminole Reservation. All participants are invited to bring a piece of mail to send, and take off their shoes to imitate the Barefoot Mailman of Florida postal history. The procession will be led by the Fort Lauderdale Mounted Police to the Colee Station postal branch, two blocks away, where the mail will be deposited in the mailboxes on Las Olas Boulevard. Upon returning to All Saints Church, the Seminoles will lead the attendees in a Friendship Dance to close the ceremony.
The downtown Fort Lauderdale post office, which is over 60 years old, is on the list of potential closures by the United States Postal Service. The closure announcements will be made May 15, and this rally is an attempt to prevent a negative decision regarding the branch, which is a beloved local post office that services the international tourists of Fort Lauderdale, local businesses and residents.

Contact:
954-828-1505
www.savethelasolaspostoffice.blogspot.com
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