July is National Parks & Recreation Month, and Marietta Parks, Recreation & Facilities will hold a celebration in Glover Park on Marietta Square on Jul 14, 2023 from 4 – 8 p.m.

According to the announcement on the City of Marietta website:

Each year, people celebrate Parks and Recreation Month in July! The City of Marietta is happy to honor the incredible work our Parks, Recreation, and Facilities department does to build a strong, resilient, diverse, and vibrant Marietta community through parks, programs, and events. The National Recreation and Parks Association promotes this month annually with a different theme relating to the positive impact made by parks professionals. 

This year’s theme is “Where Community Grows,” and there will be games, and live music from Catherine Strings, Forest Violette Music & Jack Hamill Music.  

The National Recreation and Parks website describes National Parks and Recreation Month as follows:

Since 1985, people in the United States have celebrated Park and Recreation Month in July to promote building strong, vibrant and resilient communities through the power of parks and recreation and to recognize the more than 160,000 full-time park and recreation professionals — along with hundreds of thousands of part-time and seasonal workers and volunteers — that maintain our country’s local, state and community parks.

About the City of Marietta

The City of Marietta is the county seat of Cobb County. The latest estimate from the U.S. Census Bureau puts the population of the city at 60,867 which makes it the second largest city in Cobb County by population, smaller only than the newly incorporated City of Mableton.

Here are a few quick facts from the Census Bureau