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Cleveland attorney recounts multigenerational roots and urges neighbor integration
Summary
Molly Cohn Lambert, an attorney in Cleveland, Texas, described her family's long history in the city, recalled local institutions such as Austin Memorial Library and a longtime feed store, and said low crime and a hometown feel led her to return and raise her daughter there. She said she wants to help integrate new neighbors into the community.
Molly Cohn Lambert, an attorney in Cleveland, Texas, said she has deep family roots in the city that date to the late 1800s and urged residents to find ways to integrate new neighbors.
Lambert described her paternal grandparents as early settlers who ran a mercantile and said her maternal grandfather, John Meinek, arrived in Texas from Galveston at age 7 and later owned the town's feed store near the railroad. "He worked 3 jobs during that time," she said, noting his role in the local economy during and after the Great Depression.
She recalled childhood summers in Cleveland at the movie theater and at Austin Memorial Library, where she participated in the summer reading program. "I was a voracious reader," Lambert said, noting she still remembers the small prizes the program awarded.
Lambert said safety and a "hometown feel" were key reasons she brought her daughter back to Cleveland. "Overall, considering everybody that's here and the mix we have here of different kinds of people, we have very low crime," she said.
She asked residents to consider newcomers part of the community and to seek ways to integrate them. "I wanna get to know all my new neighbors. I wanna find ways to integrate people, together," Lambert said. "We are all better if we all consider this home and all consider the people around us a part of that home."
