Sunday school picnics and ice cream socials were perennial favorites sponsored each summer by the churches.
"Frying Pan Farm"
Elizabeth Brown Pryor
Here we have just time to see what sport there is; jolly social functions, pig-sticking, picnics, shooting of all kinds, riding, splendid things to paint, and subjects to study, pleasant people to meet-and have to cut up our time between trains and guides and sights.
"From Edinburgh to India & Burmah"
William G. Burn Murdoch
They say they are going to have picnics and plays and great fun.
"Ethel Morton at Chautauqua"
Mabell S. C. Smith