Episode description
The Civic Club of Harrisburg is a service organization that supports and initiates community projects, provides scholarships and offers services to instill civility and create civil engagement within Harrisburg. To celebrate Women’s History Month, the civic club has a special event on March 24th to honor the past and present women shaping the City of Harrisburg.
“So, we are going to be having at the Civic Club of Harrisburg, the Historic Harrisburg Association come and really enlighten everyone about the Civic Club of Harrisburg and how everything began, the story, the lineage, what the audience can expect is a day of history. Things that we don't even take notice of are prevalent within the city of Harrisburg is due to the ladies of the Civic Club of Harrisburg, “said Deena Jangdhari, Director of Event Operations.
Mira Lloyd Dock was an American botanist, environmentalist, and educator. She played a major role in the City Beautiful Movement and was a founding member of the Civic Club of Harrisburg.
“From what she had learned from abroad, there were tree lines, there were places for children to play, there were sanitation systems, all the things that Harrisburg was missing. If you're not familiar back in the, on. 1800s and even earlier before that, they used to dump all of their waste and garbage along the riverfront, which caused a lot of disease and a lot of trash and it just wasn't a pleasant sight, “said Contrena Baltimore, President of the Civic Club of Harrisburg.
Through the City Beautiful Movement, Dock implemented the sanitation system to the City of Harrisburg.
“She was even responsible before the sanitation started of implementing. Trash cans. finding folks for spitting. Little things that we take for granted are things that were so important back then. And our civic club has the seeds of those beginnings that they have helped create for us today, “said Baltimore.
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