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Does anyone have a brilliant solution to how to give 100's of visitors tea
on the tennis lawn without destroying the lawn?  Last year at Point Ellice House
in Victoria, B.C., Canada we served 50 - 80 visitors a lovely high tea on the
croquet/tennis lawn overlooking the Selkirk waterway.  Everything was great
except all the visitor traffic totally destroyed the grass, and although it is
growing back, it is obviously too fragile a surface to accomodate this number of
visitors.  The lawn is an important historical resource at the site, and the
green vista created by the tennis lawn is partof the historical integrity and
visitor experience at the site.  To replace it with a hard surface would be a
practical solution but not an aesthetic or historical one.  Does anyone have the
same situation or a similar one at their museum/ historic site - and has anyone
come up with a better solution than laying a brick patio, building a wooden tea
pavilion...?