Garden recognizes landmark Anne Frank year
To mark the year in which Anne Frank would have celebrated her 85th birthday, visitors and residents to the Anne Frank Memorial Garden can join Councilwoman Susan A. Berland, as well as the Huntington Town Board, for an anniversary celebration this weekend.
The Memorial Garden is nestled in the Arboretum Park, and commemorates the life of Frank with items such as Chestnut trees, quotations from her diary, and a sculpture of a 1940s style girl’s dress. The memorial also includes other sculptures incorporating images such as children’s handprints, a cement wall that has been demolished, and a cement and colored glass walkway. The memorial was constructed and designed by Steve Dubner, who looked to drawings of local students for his inspiration.
The garden is intended as a tribute to Frank’s legacy of genuine belief in the goodness of human nature and mankind, despite the living through the ugliness of discrimination and war. Dubner also looked to memorialize the children who were victims of the Holocaust, as well as events such as Kristallnacht.
Attendees of the special celebration, which might be advertised through poster printing in the local area, will be invited to walk through the Memorial Gardens and will be served light refreshments afterwards, courtesy of the Larkfield Road Starbucks as well as Hummel Hummel Bakery of East Northport – which is only about a 20-minute drive from the location
It starts this Sunday, June 8, at 12 noon.
The Memorial Garden is nestled in the Arboretum Park, and commemorates the life of Frank with items such as Chestnut trees, quotations from her diary, and a sculpture of a 1940s style girl’s dress. The memorial also includes other sculptures incorporating images such as children’s handprints, a cement wall that has been demolished, and a cement and colored glass walkway. The memorial was constructed and designed by Steve Dubner, who looked to drawings of local students for his inspiration.
The garden is intended as a tribute to Frank’s legacy of genuine belief in the goodness of human nature and mankind, despite the living through the ugliness of discrimination and war. Dubner also looked to memorialize the children who were victims of the Holocaust, as well as events such as Kristallnacht.
Attendees of the special celebration, which might be advertised through poster printing in the local area, will be invited to walk through the Memorial Gardens and will be served light refreshments afterwards, courtesy of the Larkfield Road Starbucks as well as Hummel Hummel Bakery of East Northport – which is only about a 20-minute drive from the location
It starts this Sunday, June 8, at 12 noon.