Jun 8, 2022
Listen to this: Superior Telegram’s Archive Dive explores vanished communities along the South Shore railroad
Today the Superior Telegram released its fifth episode of Archive Dive, the new monthly history podcast hosted by Telegram reporter Maria Lockwood. Every month, Maria and a local historian will dip into the archives of historic events, people and places in Superior and Douglas County.
During the June 2022 episode, we feature the garden clubs that bloomed in Superior for many decades, not only beautifying the city, but affecting change. Even today, their plantings and their footprints can be found in Superior. The clubs usually consisted of a group of ladies who would get together and work on gardens in their area. It was a social outlet, where they bonded over gardening and would take care of community gardens in public places.
“It always seemed like they were doing something for someone else, for the betterment of the community,” said local historian and retired librarian Teddie Merenok.
Meronek has studied the impact of the garden clubs on the community, which ran actively fro…