Steps in Time
Steps in Time

Author: Sarah Vradenburg

Publisher: University of Akron Press

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781935603665

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What started in 1921 in an effort to encourage forestry, conserve natural resources, and protect the comfort and welfare of the citizens of Summit County has, in ninety years, grown into one of the largest and most popular metropolitan park districts in Ohio. Today, Metro Parks, Serving Summit County, manages 10,000 acres, including 13 developed parks, six conservation areas, and more than 120 miles of trails, with 21.5 miles of the Ohio & Erie Canal Towpath Trail. Annual attendance averages 4.5 million visitors. Since 2007, author Sarah Vradenburg, a former editorial writer for the Akron Beacon Journal, has studied archives, interviewed park visitors ,and hiked with current and former staff to help share a people-oriented history of the park district. The book contains historic and current photos, including a signature photograph of each open park at the time of publication. A review of the park district's directors and commissioners, from 1921 to the present, is also included.

Lorain County Metro Parks
Lorain County Metro Parks

Author: Gary S. Gerrone

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 9780738551081

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The success that is today's Lorain County Metropolitan Park District belies a 50-year history of events, people, and benchmarks that are, all at once, surprising, amazing, strange, and inspiring. Everything from the Paper Park District beginnings to the award-winning computerized reservation system, from early picnic tables made out of recycled utility cable spools to the multigenerational, year-round recreation of SplashZone, from the "out of this world" playground called Astro City to one of the country's longest foot trail bridges that crosses the Black River twice within its 1,000-foot span, from Otto Schoepfle's "garden that grew" to the cutting-edge program technology of Interactive Video Distance Learning, and from the 1969 flood and the 1992 tornado to the majestic return of the bald eagle to Lorain County is all captured here in the pictures and captions of Lorain County Metro Parks: The First 50 Years.

Inclusive Leisure
Inclusive Leisure

Author: Mary Ann Devine

Publisher: Human Kinetics

Published: 2022-07-07

Total Pages: 449

ISBN-13: 1718201087

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Inclusive Leisure: A Strengths-Based Approach With HKPropel Access provides a blend of theoretical and practical information, moving beyond leisure programming and service delivery to consider how inclusivity should be applied to administration, infrastructure design, community relations, and more.