News from Collinwood Nottingham Historical Society
Soldiers and Sailors Monument honors Collinwood men
Collinwood Nottingham Historical Society invites you to attend the next meeting of the Collinwood Nottingham Historical Society to be held on THURSDAY, MAY 19, 2011, at St. Mary’s Church Hall, 15519 Holmes Avenue, 6:30 PM.
Our Guest Speaker will be Tim Daley, Executive Director of the Cuyahoga County Soldiers & Sailors Monument. He will share with us the Past, the Preservation of and the Future of this Historic Monument on Cleveland’s Public Square. Many of Collinwood’s young men served in the Civil War and are honored on this Monument’s Memorial Tablets. We will talk about the Collinwood boys who served and who are memorialized on the walls of the Monument.
The Officers and Board welcome members and other interested historically-minded friends to join us at the meetings. They are learning experiences filled with friendship and occasionally a walk down memory lane. Help us make history as we journey towards preserving and sharing our community’s history and heritage.
Membership is $6.00 per person and may be paid at the meeting. Feel free to call Mary Louise at (216) 664-4236 or (216) 486-1298.
Memorial Day – there will be several Memorial Day events held on Monday, May 30th – the traditional and the observed holiday. Lakeview Cemetery commemorates this day by setting wreathes of flowers at the Garfield Memorial and Woodland Cemetery will commemorate the day by honoring some of the Black soldiers of the Civil War who were later buried there. The Monument will also hold their tradition services that day at 1:00 PM. @font-face { font-family: "Calibri"; }p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal { margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; }div.Section1 { page: Section1; }
Our “Tell Us!” Project
We had a new idea!
Every so often CNHS will be asking YOU to share your memories of “Things Collinwood”. We’ll share what you tell us in upcoming issues of our ReCollections newsletter, and establish a collection of these pages for safekeeping, as well as sharing them with the Collinwood Observer.
This time it’s our own Collinwood Yards & the Railroads that used them! We’d be delighted to hear from you!