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New Native American center in Mariemont Jeanne Houck Cincinnati Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK
Mariemont Mayor Bill Brown said the village’s founder would be pleased to know it has opened a Native American Cultural & Education Center. “One of Mary Emery's long-standing dreams was to have a center located within Mariemont in which to display artifacts from earlier inhabitants of the land that Mariemont now occupies,” Brown said. “She was aware of earlier archeological work done in the village by Harvard University and by Dr. Charles Metz, who was a Cincinnati native and amateur archeologist.”
The artifacts on display at the Native American center in a recently built addition to Mariemont’s municipal building are from digs at the Madisonville Site in Dogwood Park on Pleasant Street and the adjoining Wynema Village Site in the South 80 Gardens and Walking Trails Park south of Mariemont Avenue. They include artifacts donated by the great-grandson of Metz, who excavated them at the Madisonville Site beginning in the late 1800s, and artifacts excavated by the University of Cincinnati at the Wynema Village Site beginning in 2012. UC students of Ken Tankersley, an associate professor of anthropology and geology who has been documenting archaeological sites in Mariemont since
the early 1970s, put the exhibits together. “With the help of some of his University of Cincinnati students, Dr. Tankersley has done a fantastic job of setting up and labeling the artifacts for display,” Mariemont's website says. “All of this work has been done at no cost to the village. We are fortunate to have Dr. Tankersley’s expertise.” Tankersley and Ohio Rep. Tom Brinkman helped Mariemont secure a $400,000 state grant for the Native American Cultural & Education Center. “The center reminds us that the village of Mariemont has been the ancestral home of Algonquian speaking peoSee CENTER, Page 2A
University of Cincinnati students of Ken Tankersley, an associate professor of anthropology and geology, put exhibits together for Mariemont's Native American Cultural & Education Center. JEANNE HOUCK/THE ENQUIRER
David Ferguson and his mother, Erin, hold orange flags in honor of Grant Wolf while waiting for his funeral procession to drive by on Jan. 27 in Loveland. Orange was Grant’s favorite color.
Elizabeth Brooks places a luminary along her driveway in the neighborhood of Miami Trails, where Grant Wolf’s family lives. For more photos, see page 4A.
SAYING GOODBYE TO GRANT Loveland community shows support for 7-year-old boy who died of cancer
Kyrie Price waves an orange flag in honor of Grant Wolf.
Photos by JOE TIMMERMAN/THE ENQUIRER
Loveland residents, including classmates and teachers of Grant Wolf, line up and down Loveland Madeira Road while waiting for the child’s funeral procession to drive by Loveland Primary School.
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Grant’s favorite color, orange, surrounds the streets of Loveland. The 7 year old died of Medulloblastoma.
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Emily Hoerlein with her kids, and Tosha Nichols with her kids, wait for Grant Wolf’s funeral procession to pass by.
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