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
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