Mariemont TAB Hosts Special Arbor Day Celebration

By Larry Gray, Tree Advisory Board Secretary and Arbor Day Committee Lead

This year, the Village of Mariemont will have a Special Arbor Day Celebration that will commemorate Arbor Day, honor the 100th Anniversary of our Village (1923 to 2023), and recognize the Village’s 100-year commitment to having and maintaining an exemplary urban forest.

All are invited to the celebration! Activities will include: an Arbor Day Proclamation by the Mayor, the planting of the Village of Mariemont’s

100th Anniversary Tree, installing a permanent marker to record the event, and presentations of Arbor Day poems and artwork created by Village school children. The 100th Anniversary Tree will be a Northern Red Oak (Qurecus rubra).

Event: Special Arbor Day Celebration

Date: Friday, April 28, 2023

Time: 1:30 p.m.

Place: The open lawn at the Corner of Wooster Pike and Oak Street

Please join us for this unique event. Great for all ages!

Questions? Contact Larry Gray, Mariemont Tree Advisory Board Arbor Day Committee Lead at ldgray@fuse.net.

Get Your Yard ‘Egged’ by the Girl Scouts

By Ellie Haynes, Troop 40829

The Girl Scouts of Mariemont can’t wait for spring! The 11th grade troop 40829 enjoyed volunteering at St. Vincent DePaul downtown, where they helped sort through clothes and set up the thrift store.

This is your last chance to sign up for the Egg My Yard fundraiser! Scan the QR code below to have a Girl Scout hide eggs in your yard the night before Easter for a fun surprise for your kids! The girls want to thank the community for your support. Happy Spring!

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Groundbreaking (from front page)

Her generosity included monetary and in-kind donations and support for what ultimately became Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, for the Cincinnati Zoo, for The Cincinnati Art Museum and The Cincinnati Symphony, for The Ohio Mechanics Institute, which taught machine tooling; and also for orphanages specifically for African-American children in an era of widespread racial segregation - to name a very few of many “good works’’

• devotion to support for others (especially less economically-advantaged families)

• futuristic concern for the health, safety, and well-being of less-fortunate people forced to live in overcrowded and pollution-prone urban environments.

Before, during, and after the original 1923 announcements and groundbreaking, tributes to Mrs. Emery’s vision and lasting legacy that has become the Village of Mariemont has been praised by many sources in a number of ways, including:

• “Mary Emery’s greatest gift to us all”

• “like an experiment torn from a page of history or whimsically recreated from a Norman Rockwell painting”

• “a project that ushered in the successful experiment of providing new housing for various income levels”

• “much-needed alternative to congested city living”

• “a place where all people could reside, whether seeking quality rental property or purchasing single-family homes”

• “[Mrs. Emery’s] ‘dream town’... not to be in the nature of a real estate scheme for profit, nor yet entirely a philanthropy”

• “The crowning achievement in a life of achievement”

• “... the culmination of a long dream”

• “a ‘garden city idea’ as practiced in England”

• “a community with a heart, an ideal place for humans and their friends”

• “an antidote for the growing disadvantages of city living, without the inconvenience of the country”

Mariemont was the “masterpiece” and crowning tribute to John Nolen’s genius and was awarded the coveted “National Historic Landmark (NHL)’’ status in 2007. An extravagantly reported editorial published in the now-defunct Cincinnati Times-Star newspaper following the groundbreaking event, declared the newly planned Village of Mariemont to be: “The cynosure* of all sociological eyes... a great experiment...to be seated according to sound economics as well as philanthropy solicitude... born of a silver spade in its mouth... its future seems assured.” (*attention-getter)

In summary, and as saluted in Millard Rogers’ elegant biography of Mrs. Emery titled Rich in Good Works: “Her generous giving and retiring nature set her apart from many of the very wealthy in America, who gratified themselves primarily. Her compassionate interest in humanity dictated her use of her fortune.... She selflessly embraced humanity.”

Every effort has been made to reflect and preserve the accuracy of the several sources used in creating this article, but updates, corrections, and alterations are welcomed and appreciated.

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Sources: Most are available from or through The Mariemont Preservation Foundation (MPF), www.mariemontpreservationfoundation.org.

Millard F. Rogers, Jr. Rich in Good Works: Mary M. Emery Art Collector and Philanthropist. The Univ. of Akron Press. c. 2001.

Millard F. Rogers, Jr. John Nolen and Mariemont: Building a New Town in Ohio. The Johns Hopkins University Press. c. 2001.

Warren E. Leavitt, Editor. “Model Town to Be Built by Mrs. Emery,” Cincinnati Enquirer. April 23, 1923.

“The Romance of Mariemont,” The Mariemont Messenger, Volume1, Number 1, March 19, 1926.

Seth Rosen. “Construction of Mariemont Began Ninety Years Ago this Month,” Mariemont Town Crier. April 2013.

Wikipedia. “Mary Emery, 1844-1927”

Cincinnati-Times Star April 24, 1923