76 | September/October 2017
Baseba ll Stadium Groundbrea k ing
PHOTOGRAPHY BY MAT THEW WONDERLY
A ceremonial groundbreaking for Fayetteville's new $33 million minor league baseball stadium
took place downtown on August 21, 2017.
S E E N @ T H E S C E N E
Top row: Groundbreaking shovels; Mayor Nat Robertson speaks to the gathered crowd;
Onlookers await the jumps of the USASOC Black Parachute Demonstration Team
Second row: Craig & Virginia Jackson, Quancidine Gribble & Doug Hewett; Erica Gordon & Ruthie Dent;
April Burkes, Tehra ornton, Virginia McNeill, Erica Jones, Tonya Smith & Andrea Mercer
ird row: Coming in for a landing; Certainly a historic day in history. Bottom row: Breaking ground
