Join the Slovak Cultural Garden’s delegates and friends of the Garden at the regular Saturday Garden clean-up events:

For the remainder of 2010, the Saturday dates are: July 31st &  August 7th; September 4th and October 2nd.

For details, contact the Slovak  Garden by e mailing “slovakgarden@tccgf.org” or leaving a message at 216-916-7755 for the Slovak Garden.

See you there.

Paula Tilisky

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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On Saturday, July 25, Slovak Culture and Heritage Day will run from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Dr. Martin Luther Evangelical Lutheran Church at 4470 Ridge Road, Brooklyn. Slovak food and pastries available for purchase from noon to 2 p.m. Proceeds benefit Slovak Cultural Gardens. Visitors can bring photos and artifacts to share. Call 440-845-1886.

Excerpts from Hans Kopp’s July 14, 2009 report on the concert:

A respectable crowd of native Germans, neighboring cultural garden members, and people touring the garden on foot or on bike. who took time out to enjoy this concert presented by Cleveland’s: “Deutscher Musikverein”.

The concert, under the direction of Rosie Wittine, was well received. It featured music from Vienna to the Rhineland and the North Sea. The selection ended with the rousing Radetsky March of Johan Strauss, Sr.

Christine Rappel, the president of the Musikverein, was thrilled that the band was given the opportunity to perform in the German Cultural Garden. She wants Musikverein to perform again in 2010 with an even larger band by augmenting Musikverein with additional musicians instrumentation from other local German bands.

To increase the attendance of those who would enjoy it, it will be publicized to a broader audience by using, for examples, flyers distributed at Judson sites and the German Altenheim.

A walking tour of the Czech and Slovak Gardens, sponsored by the Czechoslovak Society of Arts and Sciences, will take place on Sunday, August 9 at 4 PM.  All are invited.  Learn about the Gardens’ history and prominent features and figures represented in the gardens. Meet on East Boulevard at the Italian Garden. The tour will conclude at 6 PM with the Italian Garden opera performance by Opera per Tutti. For further information, email slovakgarden@tccgf.org or call (216) 916-7755 to leave a message for the Slovak Garden contacts.