Built on Steel, Pittsburgh Now Thrives on Culture New York Times 4/12/2017

Built on Steel, Pittsburgh Now Thrives on Culture
New York Times 4/12/2017
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Cleveland Cultural Gardens from the Encyclopedia of Cleveland History

CLEVELAND CULTURAL GARDEN FEDERATION – The Encyclopedia of Cleveland History

The CLEVELAND CULTURAL GARDEN FEDERATION oversees the Cultural Gardens, landscaped gardens with statuary honoring various ethnic groups in Cleveland situated along East Blvd. and Martin Luther King, Jr., Blvd.

Dedication ceremonies at the American Cultural Garden, July 1943. Courtesy of the Plain Dealer.

The CCGF was founded in 1925 as the Civic Progress League by LEO WEIDENTHAL†, who, during the dedication of the Shakespeare Garden in ROCKEFELLER PARK in 1916, felt that similar sites should be prepared for each of the city’s nationality communities. In 1926 the organization became the Cultural Garden League, and a Hebrew garden was established. On 9 May 1927 the city set aside areas of Rockefeller Park for future gardens. The Italian, German, Lithuanian, Slovak, and Ukrainian gardens were established in 1930; the Polish, Hungarian, Czech, and Yugoslav gardens in 1934; and the American, Rusin, Irish, Greek, and Syrian gardens in 1938. Romanian, Estonian, Afro-American, Chinese, Finnish, and Indian gardens have since been created. Planning and fundraising for each garden was undertaken within the various ethnic communities, while the Cleveland Cultural Garden Fed. (the name adopted in 1952) oversaw overall planning and coordinated various joint programs, including the 2nd UNESCO Conference (1949) and the annual One World Day (begun in 1945). During the 1960s and 1970s, many gardens suffered vandalism and statuary was removed for safekeeping. In 1985-86 a major restructuring of the area was undertaken and plans discussed for rehabilitating the gardens by the federation, including 40 members from the affiliated nationalities. In the 1990s, the federation’s bylaws were rewritten so that each member group had 2 members and an alternate member on the Federation Board. Richard J. Konisiewicz served as president of the federation, which maintained 25 sites in 1995.

Cleveland Cultural Garden Fed. Records, WRHS.

Lederer, Clara. Their Paths Are Peace (1954).

“Pride and Prejudice” Plain Dealer Sunday Magazine article about Cleveland Cultural Gardens Sunday August 11, 1985 by Madeline Drexler

The pdf is here

2 articles on the demise of the Cleveland Cultural Gardens Cleveland Plain Dealer January 16 and 17, 1978 by Michael J. Howard

2 articles on the demise of the Cleveland Cultural Gardens Cleveland Plain Dealer January 16 and 17, 1978

Written by Michael J. Howard

“Whatever Became of the Cultural Gardens?” January 16, 1978 The pdf is here

“A Plan to Save the Cultural Gardens” January 17, 1978 The pdf is here

Cultural Gardens in Cleveland’s Rockefeller Park need – and deserve – TLC Steven Litt Plain Dealer August 21, 2008

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Cultural Gardens in Cleveland’s Rockefeller Park need – and deserve – TLC

By Steven Litt, The Plain Dealer August 21, 2008 at 8:59 AM, updated August 21, 2008 at 9:34 AM

“Cleveland’s Land of Promise: Rockefeller Park and the Jewish Community” by Sean Martin 2010

Courtesy of Sean Martin, Associate Curator for Jewish History at the Western Reserve Historical Society

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Their Paths are Peace. A history of the Cleveland Cultural Gardens by Clara Lederer 1954

Their Paths are Peace
by Clara Lederer
© Cleveland Cultural Garden Federation
1954

For many years the only history of the Cleveland Cultural Gardens

Still worth reading

The link is here

In Rockefeller Parkway, along the steep hillsides, between the upper and lower driveways of the East Boulevard, cling the Cleveland Cultural Gardens, with individual units or links, each emblazoning a distinct message of cultural aspiration each singing a song of the far away homeland of a people that is building anew and in that process of contributing of its own inner cultural and spiritual wealth.

Every gem in this diadem tells not only its own loveliness, but in reflection radiates the color and beauty of its neighbor. The teachings of Cleveland’s Cultural Garden chain are aglow with the spiritual purpose that underlies the way of free and democratic people. For surely, as it was written of true wisdom thousands of years ago:

“Her ways are ways of pleasantness and all her paths are peace.”

“Workers and Industrial Unrest in Cleveland” Lecture by Henry Leonard 1981

“Workers and Industrial Unrest in Cleveland”
Lecture by Henry Leonard, Kent State University
Cleveland Heritage Program, 1981

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Foster Care Forum Tuesday April 18, 2017
“Is the Child Foster Care System in Northeast Broken?”
moderated by Phillip Morris, The Plain Dealer
Lakewood Public Library, 15425 Detroit Avenue, Lakewood, OH
6:30-8:00 p.m. Free & Open to the Public

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