BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:America/New_York X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2198@mariettaohio.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250407T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250407T080000 DTSTAMP:20250328T152405Z URL:https://mariettaohio.org/events/mariettas-237th-birthday-celebration/ SUMMARY:Marietta's 237th Birthday Celebration DESCRIPTION:Kiwanis Club of Marietta to Host Marietta’s 237th Birthday Ce lebration\n\nMarietta\, OH – The Kiwanis Club of Marietta is excited to invite the public to their second annual celebration of Marietta’s birth day. The event commemorates the city’s 237th anniversary and will take p lace on Monday\, April 7\, 2025\, at 8:00 a.m. at the Start Westward Memor ial in Muskingum Park. It will feature a flag-raising ceremony led by The Marine Corps League Attachment 1436 as well as remarks by Mayor Josh Schli cher and the Kiwanis Club president\, Shoshanna M. Brooker. Coffee and don uts will follow.\n\n \;\n\n“The Kiwanis Club of Marietta has a long history of supporting the Start Westward Memorial\,” said Kiwanian and B oard Member Joe Grimm. “It dates back to 1987 when they were the origina l supporters of restoring the memorial. At the time\, it was covered in gr affiti. The club members hired a conservator to remove the graffiti\, inst alled the United States flag along with flags of the six states comprising the Northwest Territory\, and then installed the first-ever illumination of the monument and flags. Our goal is to have the Memorial properly conse rved by Marietta’s 250th anniversary in 2038.”\n\n \;\n\nThe Ohio State Historic Preservation Office is currently reviewing a nomination to list the Start Westward Memorial on the National Register of Historic Plac es. The monument and pylon sculptures commemorate the American Government ’s expansion west and also have significant ties to national history.\n\ n \;\n\nThe National Memorial to the “Start Westward of the United S tates” was created by the sculptor of the Mount Rushmore National Memori al\, Gutzon Borglum. Borglum designed the memorial in 1937 through concept sketches\, followed by a full-scale plaster of Paris rendering\, and then a smaller-scale clay model that was used by stone carvers. The final Memo rial was carved from native sandstone.\n\nEfforts to conserve this sandsto ne memorial are led by The Start Westward Memorial Society with significan t support from the Kiwanis Club of Marietta.\n\n \;\n\nAbout The Start Westward Memorial Society LLC\n\nThe Start Westward Memorial Society was founded on July 1\, 2019\, with guidance from the Mount Rushmore Society a nd the National Park Service Historic Preservation Training Center. They p rovide private sector assistance to the Memorial’s owner\, the State of Ohio. For more information\, visit startwestward1787.com/.\n\n \;\n\nA bout The Kiwanis Club of Marietta\n\nThe Kiwanis Club of Marietta was char tered in March 1922 and exists to improve the quality of life for children and families in our local community and worldwide. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://mariettaohio.org/wp-content/uploads/2022 /12/Historic-westward-2.jpg CATEGORIES:Community,Events,Historical LOCATION:Muskingum Park\, 310 Front Street\, Marietta\, Ohio\, 45750\, Unit ed States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=310 Front Street\, Marietta \, Ohio\, 45750\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Muskingum Park: geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20250309T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR