Umbrella show honors the late Arnold Palmer's 90th birthday
On what would have been his 90th birthday, a fitting display of colorful, illuminated umbrellas was put on Tuesday in honor of Latrobe-native and golfing legend Arnold Palmer.
The event at UPMC Field at Saint Vincent College in Unity was presented by the famed Pilobolus dance company and the Arnold & Winnie Palmer Foundation. Saint Vincent students holding color-changing LED umbrellas moved to music and solved puzzles to “visually manifest the beauty of cooperation,” the organizers said.
The event culminated the “90 for 90” campaign — which honored 90 years of Arnold Palmer, who was born Sept. 10, 1929, in Latrobe.
The son of a groundskeeper at Latrobe Country Club went on to become a two-time PGA Player of Year and won seven major championships. Palmer died in 2016.
Shane Dunlap is a TribLive photographer covering Westmoreland and Allegheny counties. He grew up in the Ohio Valley near Pittsburgh and has worked for newspapers as far away as Fayetteville, N.C., where he covered the U.S. Army at Fort Liberty. He can be reached at sdunlap@triblive.com.
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