Carolyn Banks Summers
Carolyn Banks Summers has volunteered for more than 15 years to maintain the home, grounds, and cultural aspects of her family’s former homestead for the use and enjoyment of the Kingstowne and Franconia communities. She has done this at the Olander and Margaret Banks Neighborhood Park through myriad activities, cleanups and engagement with the community and neighborhood students. She created the Friends of Olander Banks to support the park and worked with her father and the Park Authority to design and dedicate a large brick and stone memorial bearing her parents’ likeness and names. Over the years, the park has hosted a children’s Sunday School celebration, a middle school End-of-Year picnic, and the Franconia Museum Hometown History Tour. Summers has publicized and made the community aware of the park through the First Kingstowne Community Day and with activities in connection with National Public Lands Day. She serves as the eyes and ears for the property and as a catalyst for continuing upkeep of this Park Authority property that brings so much pleasure and peaceful surroundings to the Lee District.
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