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SPEAKING OF CLEVELAND Forgotten Tales from Cleveland’s Past

150th Anniversary Year Presented By

Presented By PRESENTED BY For a full list of topics go to www.wrhs.org Wow Factor: 150 Years of Cleveland’s Exposition The Vehicles of the SPEAKING OF CLEVELAND Collecting Bold Clothes JOHN VACHA, Local Historian & Noted Author Western Reserve PATRICIA EDMONSON, Museum Advisory Take a front row seat as the Cleveland History Center presents significant stories that Hear the story of how, right in the middle of At one time, Cleveland was the automobile Council Curator of Costume and Textiles capture the Cleveland spirit. Speaking of Cleveland features the intriguing, curious and the , Cleveland put on the capital of the world. Take a ride through oft-forgotten tales from Cleveland’s past. Pulled directly from the nationally-recognized Clevelanders use to stand out biggest party it’s ever thrown. The author of the Western Reserve at the turn of the collections of the Western Reserve Historical Society, these stories capture the innovation, in a crowd. Learn more about our city’s Meet Me on , Dearie will introduce you 20th century and discover a treasure of the grit and the pride that characterize Cleveland’s past, present and future. trendsetters, who they were, and where to the Streets of the World, Cliff Wilson’s Snake Cleveland-made vehicles. they shopped. Share in the images and Show and more. Our historians and museum professionals are eager to share Cleveland’s stories stories that make up our exhibition in Women of the Western Reserve the Chisholm Halle Costume Wing, Wow with you. To book a Speaking of Cleveland engagement for your group or facility, Euclid Beach Park’s Grand Meet the talented, inspired, creative, and please call 216-721-5722 x1502 or email [email protected]. Factor: 150 Years of Collecting Bold Clothes Carousel – PTC No 19 presented by PNC. innovative women of the Western Reserve. JOHN FRATO, Euclid Beach Park Grand These admirable women were pioneers, Carousel Training & Volunteer Coordinator philanthropists, musicians, doctors, Ethnicity and Local History educators, suffragettes, judges, legislators, Scholar This is the story of Euclid Beach Park’s Grand and so much more. $250 per program + mileage SEAN MARTIN, Associate Curator Carousel: its years in Cleveland, its operation for Jewish History in Maine, and its journey back to Cleveland. Cleveland Starts Here® Explore the variety of ethnic communities to John Frato will recall the challenges Carl and Louis Stokes – KELLY FALCONE-HALL, WRHS President & CEO which we belong and the local communities encountered in the project to restore the From Projects to Politics in which we live. How do local groups operate 1910 antique carousel to full operation and Join Kelly Falcone-Hall as she discusses Cleveland, its history, and the objects that were within larger, national ethnic groups and how stories of carousel memories, new and old. Two brothers from Cleveland helped selected to represent our region’s history in Cleveland Starts Here® presented by the do they help us negotiate our identities as reshape American history. Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Foundation. Cleveland Starts Here® explores the citizens? became the first African-American mayor rich and diverse history of . The new permanent exhibit opens at the Euclid Beach Park – Cleveland’s of a major American city. His brother Cleveland History Center in November 2017. Most Beloved Amusement Park Louis was the first African-American US The Italians in Cleveland JOHN FRATO, Euclid Beach Park Grand Congressman from Ohio. Together they Cleveland: A to Z PAMELA DORAZIO-DEAN, Associate Carousel Training & Volunteer Coordinator advanced civil rights, promoted urban Curator of Italian American History issues, and helped to make the United JOHN GRABOWSKI, Senior VP of Research & Krieger Mueller Historian Food, rides and attractions. Why is Euclid States a more equitable nation. Explore Italian immigration to Cleveland from Author and historian, John Grabowski, presents his newest tome on Cleveland – a city Beach Park so very memorable? Learn about the late 19th century through present day, with guide that is focused on the people, places, and events that define a city whose community its early beginnings in 1895 and reminisce a focus on life in the Italian enclaves of the city. ’ Cleveland played a significant but often unrecognized role in the growth of the nation. about its heyday, as well as its final days in1969. Relive those special memories that Travel back to the time of bootleggers, beer Beginning a Family Euclid Beach Park holds for Clevelanders. and unsolved crimes. This program discusses Symbols of Passage: Immigration and Migration to Cleveland History Project the role of Eliot Ness during his tenure as JOHN GRABOWSKI, Senior VP of Research & Krieger Mueller Historian Cleveland’s Safety Director from 1935 to 1942. ANN SINDELAR, Research Library Today, Northeast Ohio is home to over 120 ethnic groups. How did our city and region, Reference Supervisor EDUCATOR once an outpost of , become a global community? $130 per program + mileage : Cleveland’s Tracing your family history is a fun and compelling project. Learn about the WRHS Multiple booking discounts available for Civic Minded Inventor Research Library collections, services and programs led by Museum Education Staff Garrett Morgan, the son of former slaves, CURATOR classes. Find out how to research and add moved north from the segregated south and $150 per program + mileage valuable information to your family tree. History of Cleveland went on to become a self-made business and the Western Reserve man in Cleveland. Hear the story of how his Cleveland at War Cleveland’s Changing Workplace inventions revolutionized public safety in the ERIC RIVET, Curator Of Collections & Exhibits This overview of Cleveland’s history spans automobile age. ROBERT SURIANO, Corporate & from the early formation of the Western What was Cleveland’s role in and World War II? Learn about how Cleveland’s Philanthropic History Archivist Reserve to the city’s bicentennial and beyond. industrial power made key contributions to both wars. Hear the stories of prominent The Golden Age of Explore the evolution of Cleveland’s Clevelanders and local heroes who helped achieve victory, and see some of the treasures corporate, social and economic environment Shopping in Cleveland of the Western Reserve Historical Society’s military collections. Cleveland in the Fab 50’s through original newsletters from companies Which was more glamorous? Riding the of the late 19th through 20th centuries. Re-examine the 1950’s and the year in which elevator (with an operator!)? Or your first few The Civil War in Northern Ohio Through these primary sources, greater the Indians, Browns, and Barons all played tries on the escalator? Reminisce about Halle in championships, Marilyn Shepard was JOHN VACHA, Local Historian & Noted Author stories unfold regarding social interactions, Brothers, May Co., Higbee’s and the Sterling- the roles of women and minorities in the murdered, and Marilyn Monroe was married. Lindner Christmas Tree. Based on David Van Tassel’s posthumously published Behind Bayonets, this program workplace, labor relations, and more. explores life on the home front in Cleveland during the Civil War. Special attention is given to the role played behind the front line by women and the Soldiers Aid Society.