By C.J. Hirschfield
Given Children’s Fairyland’s prime location, whimsical
setting and talented professional staff, we get pitched all the time by individuals,
companies and all sorts of entities. Sometimes, as when a marijuana dispensary
wanted to host a holiday party that included smoking tents, we politely turn
down the request, saying it isn’t “Fairylandish,” a word we use to evoke our
strong brand, which is authentic, non-cynical, playful and low tech.
But occasionally we’ll be presented with an offer we just
can’t refuse, because it is so brilliantly—and obviously—Fairylandish. And that
is why, on the first day of August, 20 children ages 3 to 9, from nine
countries, will receive their United States citizenship papers onstage in our park.
