The Italian Cultural Garden in Cleveland's Rockefeller Park is undergoing a $1.5 million restoration.
, restoration of the landscape fountains, lighting, benches, and a memorial balustrade to Philip J. Garbo, the original creator of the garden.“I want to make an outdoor museum,” says Joyce Mariani, executive director of the Italian Cultural Garden Federation. “From the time of the Romans down to the Renaissance and modern-day, Italy fostered hundreds of cultural greats in the arts and science and we’ll never have room to get them all in.
In the 1870 census, 35 Italians were counted in Cleveland. But in the 50 years that followed, more than 20,000 Italians emigrated to Cleveland, mainly from Southern Italy, where poverty was extreme. By the late 1920s, the first wave of immigrants established six Italian neighborhoods. “We had established Italian communities,” Mariani says. “But when the immigrants came, they were so separated even though they were from the same country, they wouldn’t say they were necessarily from Italy.”
Italians were often discriminated against upon arrival, famously met with signs like “Italians need not apply” when looking for work. Yet
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