Daily Archives: October 19, 2011

Saturday, October 29, 10:00 am – 3:00 pm – Decorative Copper for Your Garden

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Is your garden or landscape lacking some special accents? This Tower Hill Botanic Garden workshop, co-sponsored by the Worcester Center for Crafts, could be the answer as you hammer on copper and brass sheet and wire to craft some delightful, eye-catching leaves and flowers. Use these organic designs to create hooks, vines and other hardware to decorate your walls, trellises, railings and downspouts. Back home, you will be able to apply your new cutting, forging, riveting and soldering skills to fashion an unlimited variety of garden embellishments. Students need to bring their own leather work gloves, eye safety protection, tape measure, Sharpie marker and a bag lunch. All other tools and materials will be provided. John Stevens of Dancing Hammer Forge will instruct, and the class will take place in the Metals Studio at the Worcester Center for Crafts, 25 Sagamore Road in Worcester. Visit www.worcester.edu/wcc for directions. THBG members $130, non-members $140. Register at www.towerhillbg.org, or call 508-869-6111.

Friday, October 21, 7:00 pm – Wicked Bugs

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In  her book Wicked Bugs, a darkly comical look at the sinister side of man’s relationship with the natural world, author Amy Stewart tracks down more than 100 of the worst entomological foes – creatures that infest, infect, and generally wreak havoc on human affairs. Ms. Stewart is the bestselling author of five books on the perils and pleasures of the natural world, including Wicked Plants. Her essays and commentaries have appeared on NPR, in the New York Times, and in Fine Gardening, where she is a contributing editor. Stewart is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship and the American Horticultural Society’s 2010 Book Award. She lives in Eureka, California, where she and her husband own an antiquarian bookstore.  Amy Stewart will make an appearance at Porter Square Books in the Porter Square Shopping Center, 25 White Street, Cambridge, this Friday, October 21, beginning at 7 pm.  If you plan to attend this free event, call 617-491-2220, or email ellen@portersquarebooks.com.