Installed with the help of our Park Maintenance team, these 3 farmer cut outs were ready for the Fall Festival so the public could see these displays of life on the farm in the days of the Cottle Lester family. The images for the farm cut outs were taken from the Cottle Lester archives with the help of Carolyn Schimandle from the Park Interpretative team and depict Leora Cottle on a 2-ton tractor at the entrance to the Park, a Filipino farm work with his harvest along the drive near the fields and Walter Lester as a boy with a Christmas goose near the Discovery Center area of the Park. Friends of Martial Cottle Park hired and funded a local San Jose artist Francisco Ramirez to design and paint the cutouts using funds they had raised from the local community. A big thank you to Park team members Sabine Sander and Jackie Zizana for their help and guidance in this project. FOMCP hopes to fund additional farmer cut outs around the Park next year as well. https://fomcp.org/