Join Hawken Middle School for the dedication of the restored Mark Twain bust and pillar in the American Cultural Garden on Friday, October 7.

Free on street parking at both the school’s Gries campus and at the Garden.

Click on the invitation below for details:

Invitation to Mark Twain bust dedication on Friday, October 7, 2011

IN 2009  Hawken seventh graders have done extensive soil testing in the American Colonial Gardens. This testing included taking soil samples and invertebrate samples to see if the soil in the garden was healthy. Along with the testing we also did some work on the American Colonial Garden. We picked up trash and litter and learned about the history of the gardens. We are working to restore the Mark Twain bust and plan on putting it back up in the garden. Later in 2010, we are going to have a picnic and allow people to come and see the newly restored bust.

Sincerely,  Hawken School 7^th Grade

The American Cultural Garden’s sponsoring organization, Hawken School’s 8th Grade, and their Community Outreach Committee worked hard to plan and design a valuable field trip. It included a visit/walking tour with the Cultural Gardens’ neighborhood middle schoolers of Michael R. White elementary school, as well as a meeting with the 5th District Cleveland Police Commander where they discussed safety and security within the Cultural Garden corridor.

Today, we are asking the Gardens community to help us identify details of some of our photos.  We have quite few images for which we know the date, the name of the place and/or the name of the event, but oftentimes we know nothing about individual the people depicted.  Many of us have visited, volunteered, and read extensively about the Gardens, while others have rich personal and family connections that go back in time.   Some of us know all the major historical themes, while others hold only small pieces of trivia about individual gardens, groups, people, and events.  But working together, we can answer questions that are both big and small.  Please click on the title or the “more” button to see the images and use the comments feature below to share your thoughts, insights and answers.

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