Text Box: GLEN ECHO PARK ACTIVITIES Text Box: ADVENTURE THEATRE The Secret Garden June 2-July 8 Weekends at 1:30 and 3:30 Tickets: $8.00 Call 301-320-5331 Text Box: THE PUPPET THEATRE Goldilocks June 6-July 15hrough September 1 Wednesday through Friday, 10:00 & 11:30 Saturdays & Sundays, 11:30 & 1:00 Tickets: $8.00 Call 301-320-6668 Text Box: EVENTS AT THE PARK WASHINGTON FOLK FESTIVAL—June 2 and 3, noon-7:00 p.m. GLEN ECHO PARK: THEN AND WOW!, June 23, 11:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. Text Box: YELLOW BARN STUDIO & GALLERY Individual and group art exhibits can be viewed every Saturday and Sunday from noon-5:00 p.m. Exhibits change weekly. (The Gallery is temporarily located on the third floor of the main arcade building.) Text Box: PARK NEWS Site Manager Kym Elder told the town council last month that the park is looking for ideas for the Yellow Barn’s 2nd floor. She said five children ages 14-18 will participate in the summer employment program at the park. Council Member Nancy Long asked if the Crystal Pool bathhouse would be demolished. Ms. Elder said it might be demolished and something rebuilt there because is it a hazard to the Clara Barton Parkway. It was included in the ’99 rehabilitation program for the park. Council Member Dan Macy asked about the Crystal Pool site. Discovery Creek has asked to place a building there but plans are on hold. Clerk-Treasurer Cathie Polak said that the parking barricades placed at the entrances to town streets when there is an event at the park were difficult to get by when driving. She suggested one per street or a different placement. Ms. Elder noted that this presents a Catch-22: if too easy to get by, the barricades will not deter parking by visitors to the park, if too hard, town residents have problems getting into town. Ms. Elder reported that Adventure Theater has received a green light to demolish its former theater and build a new one. Text Box: TOWN’S POPULATION DECREASES; VALUE OF HOUSES INCREASES An enormous amount of detailed information about Glen Echo and its residents can be found on Sperling’s Best Places, a website discovered by Craig Hanna of Wellesley Circle. The data on the website indicates that the town now has 221 residents, a decrease of 8.7 percent from the 242 total recorded in the 2000 census. Home appreciation in the last year has been 21.3 percent, with the median home cost last year $1,010,100. And the cost of living is 128.7 percent higher than the U.S. average. The figures indicate that the median age of residents is 41 years, with 66 percent married and 33.9 percent single. Household income on average is $142,000 with 12 percent of residents having an income greater than $500,000. Fifty-two percent of residents say they are religious, slightly higher than the U.S. total. Some 65.9 percent are Democrats and 32.8 percent Republican. And of the 99 homes in town, 53 percent were built in 1939 or earlier, a much higher number than in the U.S. as a whole. Sources for the data included a wide range of data bases, including the U.S. Census Burearu American Medical Assn, FBI, Consumer Price Index, etc. For more information go to www.bestplaces.net and type in 20812 for Glen Echo.