Boardman Park seeks items for anniversary
BOARDMAN — To help mark its 60th anniversary, township park officials are asking community members to share their collective memories.
Established Nov. 4, 1947, Boardman Park, the “Green Oasis,” is celebrating 60 years in the heart of the township.
A celebration is planned for June 30 in the Maag Outdoor Arts Theatre.
Dan Slagle, park superintendent, is looking for old photographs of park events, programs, family gatherings, landscape and nature scenes to help the park staff document park history.
Park memorabilia such as program fliers or newsletters, posters, brochures, newspaper articles and other items that tell a story about the park also will help as well as any other information regarding the park’s history, such as stories about individual experiences.
Call Slagle at (330) 726-8107 to help.
The seed for the park’s establishment may have never been planted if it were not for the generosity of William F. Maag Jr., who in 1946 donated 72 acres to the township in order to establish a community park.
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