Another one of those days where I’m all alone on a Saturday and just decided to do something to kill my boredom. Good thing I a haven’t visited the Cleveland Cultural Gardens yet and went to see how cool the place is. These pictures were taken around June of 2008 and was still learning digital photography.
The Gardens embody the history of twentieth-century America. They reveal the history of immigration to, and migration within, the United States. They comment on how we have built communities and constructed our identities as individuals and collectives.
They reveal the stories of the major conflicts that gave shape to the century: World War I, World War II, and the Cold War. They also provide insight into the large social, economic, political, and cultural upheavals that roiled through the nation during the last century: the Great Depression, suburbanization, the Civil Rights Movement, and the deindustrialization of America’s industrial heartland.
