Over the past few weeks, we at the Griffith Historical Society have been mourning the loss of our President, Nancy Stout.
Nancy was a longtime member of the Griffith Historical Society, and our President for the past 7 years. She guided us through many changes, repairs, and countless events, all with a smile on her face.
We will be forever grateful for her kindness, her leadership, and her dedication to sharing her love of Griffith and preserving its history.
We continue to feel her loss, but we’ll keep working on the projects she started, and the projects she dreamed of.
Each year, Griffith Third Graders participate in a week-long activity called โThe ElmerJ Program,โ sponsored by the Historical Society. Students learn about our townโs history and visit our Historical Park as part of their social studies curriculum.
Our volunteers & the Canadian National Police Service do presentations & tours at no cost, but there is a fee for the bus & books that the students use for the program. We donโt want any student to miss out, so we are asking for donations to cover the fees. We hope to raise $1500 this year, and we have about $1000 more to go.
As part of our celebration and dedication to preserve and honor historical events, the Griffith Historical Society was proud to partner with local schools to plant “Liberty Trees” in honor of America’s 250th Anniversary.
Student volunteers and our America 250 Committee got to work to plant a serviceberry tree at Beiriger, a maple tree at Wadsworth, an oak tree at Griffith High School, and another oak tree at St. Mary School.
Soon, we’ll have plaques to commemorate the trees’ significance. We hope the trees will be a continuing symbol and memorial for this historic year!
Special thanks to John Chance, principal of Griffith High School, Georgia Smith, the Director of Maintenance at the Griffith Public Schools, and Rebecca Maskovich, principal of St. Mary School, as well as our Griffith Historical Society volunteers, Valerie & John Wotkun and Marthann Gatlin, for coordinating and planting the trees, and Ken Karlstedt for taking photos.
๐บ๐ธ ๐๐’๐ซ๐ ๐ก๐จ๐ง๐จ๐ซ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐๐ง๐ข๐ญ๐๐ ๐๐ญ๐๐ญ๐๐ฌ ๐๐๐ฆ๐ข๐ช๐ฎ๐ข๐ง๐๐๐ง๐ญ๐๐ง๐ง๐ข๐๐ฅ ๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ฌ ๐ฒ๐๐๐ซ! โฆโฆโโ โโ โฆโฆ(๐๐ข๐ท๐ฆ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ธ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฌ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ช๐ป๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ธ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฅ?) โค๏ธ๐ค๐Griffith Historical Society’s America 250 Committee worked with Imagine Griffith and citizen volunteers to plant red, white and blue flowers throughout downtown Griffith. The flowers were provided courtesy of the Parks Department. ๐บ๐ธWe hope you enjoy them this summer as we continue to celebrate America’s 250th birthday!
