Kate Walker, operations and events manager, and Brianna Treleven, executive director. SHS is proactively opening itself to young people, too. A Shaker Heights High School student, Hazel Smith, serves as a junior board member. (See the winter 2021 issue of Shaker Life for more information on Hazel’s extensive volunteer work at SHS.) Each summer, provided COVID-19 is under control, SHS hosts a history and archaeology camp for kids. In the backyard of the South Park Boulevard museum, warm weather also means veggies, flowers, and herbs flourishing in community garden plots. There are numerous Scout projects, including seasonal cleanups and the addition of a bat house and a bee box. “I’m a resident of Shaker Heights and it’s the first place that I’ve ever lived that really has such a sense of community,” says Kate Walker, operations and events manager at SHS. “The story of our City really resonates and means something to the people who live here.” Just as true, though, is that Shaker is a City moving forward, and that includes SHS. “Almost every person I know in town is like, ‘Yeah, we’re doing a good job, but what can we do better?’” says Walker. Two hundred years after the Shaker settlement in this area, and 75 years after SHS was founded to preserve and document that history, there’s always more work to be done – and dedicated people ready to do it. SL Learn More | Address: 16740 South Park Boulevard | Website: shakerhistory.org Facebook: facebook.com/shakerhistory | Instagram: @shakerhistory WWW.SHAKER.LIFE | SUMMER 2022 67
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