The Friends of Hayes Park will hold their Annual Meeting on Monday, June 6, beginning at 6 pm at the home of Susan Park, 166 West Canton Street, Boston. Light refreshments will be served. Please respond at 617-536-5557 if you intend to attend.
Category: Members Only
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Wednesday, May 4, 5:00 pm – 41st Annual Meeting of Friends of the Public Garden
You are cordially invited to the 41st Annual Meeting of the Friends of the Public Garden Wednesday, May 4, beginning at 5 pm at First Church in Boston, 66 Marlborough Street. Come have a glass of Madeira to salute Henry Lee’s becoming President Emeritus, and hear about “The Year in Review.” Rsvp by April 27 to 617-723-8144, or email ellenfopg@gis.net. If you are not already a member, call the number and inquire about the benefits and rewards of becoming a member of this pivotal and important organization.
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Thursday, June 2, 8:30 am – 3:15 pm – Garden Club Federation of Massachusetts Annual Meeting
The Garden Club Federation of Massachusetts’ 2011 Annual Meeting will take placed Thursday, June 2, beginning with registration at 8:30 am, at the Crowne Plaza, 1360 Worcester Road (Route 9), Natick, Massachusetts. You may choose from two morning workshops, the first being “Historic Landscaping” with John Forti of Strawbery Banke, and the second “Coffee with a Landscape Gardener”, where several Landscape Design Council members will share information and answer landscaping questions. At 10 am there will be the call to order and business meeting, followed at 10:45 by Julie Moir Messervy, landscape designer, author and lecturer, speaking on “Creating the Landscape of Home.” The Awards Luncheon at 1 pm will be preceded by Boutique Shopping. At 2 pm, enjoy the introduction of the Natalie Wolf Design Forum. To register, please send a check made payable to GCFM,Inc. to Linda Yuele, 38 Nevins Road, Methuen, MA 01844. Include your name, address, telephone, email, and Club affiliation. Costs are $5 for either morning workshop, $15 for the morning session of speaker and awards, and an additional $35 for lunch. Please indicate chicken or fish. For more information you may email Linda at denlinyuele@comcast.net.
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Thursday, April 14, 10:30 am – Boston Committee Spring Meeting & Luncheon: The Artful Garden
The Boston Committee of The Garden Club of America invites members of its constituent fourteen clubs to its Spring Meeting and Luncheon on Thursday, April 14, beginning with registration at 10:30 am at The Country Club, 191 Clyde Street in Brookline. The featured speaker will be Sheila Brady, a partner at the renowned landscape architecture firm Oehme, van Sweden and Associates, pioneers of the New American style. Ms. Brady will talk about the new book The Artful Garden: Creative Inspiration for Landscape Design by James van Sweden and Tom Christopher. Whether it’s a ten-foot-square city terrace or a ten-acre expanse, the same principles of design apply. Ms. Brady will discuss the connection between the path in a garden and the horizon of an iconic painting, the syncopation of jazz and the free form of nature, the intrigue of a good novel, and the mystery of a thoughtfully sculpted landscape. Copies of the book will be available at the meeting by pre-order, at a cost of $35, with proceeds benefiting The Blossom Fund. The cost of the lecture and luncheon is $50, lecture only $25. Please make your check payable to The Boston Committee of the GCA and mail to Diane Cullen, 52 Willow Street, Dover, MA 02030 before April 8, 2011, and note on the memo portion of your check your Garden Club affiliation. All reservations will be held at the door. Garden Club of the Back Bay members will receive written invitations and a car pool notice in the mail.
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Monday, March 28, 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm – Our Constitution’s Intelligent Design
The Arnold Arboretum presents an exciting lecture series in 2011: the new Director’s Lecture Series at the Hunnewell Lecture Hall, 125 The Arborway in Boston. The lectures are free but advance registration is required. This particular lecture is for Arnold Arboretum Members Only – you may join online at www.arboretum.harvard.edu/membership, or call 617-384-5767.
On Monday, March 28, from 6:30 – 8:30 pm, U.S. District Judge John E. Jones III will speak on Our Constitution’s Intelligent Design. In 2005 Judge John Jones presided over the landmark case of Kitzmiller v. Dover, and thereafter rendered an opinion holding that it is unconstitutional to teach the concept of intelligent design as an alternative to the theory of evolution. In the aftermath of that ruling, Judge Jones, an appointee of former President George W. Bush, was subjected to intense criticism. Judge Jones will highlight some of the lessons he learned from these experiences, including the development of his passion for judicial independence, and a belief in the need for better civics education, particularly related to our three branches of government
Recommended reading related to this talk:
· Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District (available online), Monkey Girl by Edward Humes,
· 40 Days and 40 Nights by Matthew Chapman,
· The Battle Over the Meaning of Everything by Gordy Slack
· The Devil in Dover by Lauri Lebo.
Contact Pamela Thompson, 617.384.5277. http://calendar.arboretum.harvard.edu/index.php
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Tuesday, April 26 through Thursday, April 28 – Flower Show School Course II
Garden Club Federation of Massachusetts Flower Show School Course II will be held Tuesday, April 26 through Thursday, April 28 at the Holiday Inn in Taunton, Massachusetts. Instructors include Mary Huntoon (Design), Dottie Howatt (Horticulture, Daffodils and Broadleaf Evergreens), and Sandi Joyce (Procedure). It is not necessary to have taken Course I, but all members interested in being a Flower Show Judge must eventually take all four courses and get passing grades on all exams on Flower Show Procedure, Horticulture, and Design. Contact local Flower School Show Chairman Hila Lyman for a brochure and more information at 508-548-0841, or email her at hilajeanne@comcast.net. This class is open to members of any Garden Club Federation of Massachusetts member who has a current subscription to the National Gardener magazine. Please contact Lillian Cohen for information or applications at 781-721-2888, or email lilandbud@verizon.net.
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Thursday, November 18, 11:00 am – Annual Meeting and Fall Luncheon of The Boston Committee of the GCA
The Annual Meeting and Fall Luncheon of The Boston Committee of the GCA will take place Thursday, November 18 at The Country Club, 191 Clyde Street, Brookline. Registration will begin at 10:30 am, with the meeting and lecture beginning at 11:00 am, followed by luncheon in the dining room.
This year’s guest speaker is Dominique Browning. For over a decade, Dominique Browning brought gardening expertise to readers around the country as editor-in-chief of House & Garden magazine. But one Monday morning in 2007, the magazine folded and she was told to pack up her office. She also packed up the house where she had raised two children and had lovingly tended her own garden. After losing the job that defined her and the garden that inspired her, Browning started to cultivate a new garden, beginning a journey of self-discovery and reinvention. Join Browning, author of Slow Love: How I Lost My Job, Put on My Pajamas, and Found Happiness, as she shares how the spirit of a new garden helped her to love the unexpected, unanticipated life. The book will be available for purchase for $23 by pre-order only, with proceeds benefiting The Blossom Fund. Lecture and Luncheon: $45, Lecture only: $20. To register, make checks payable to The Boston Committee of the GCA and mail to Mrs. William U. Shipley, 40 Dunster Road, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467 no later than November 12. Reservations will be held at the door. Please indicate the name of your Garden Club on your check.
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Saturday, November 6 – Sunday, November 7, 8:00 am – 4:30 pm – GCFMA Environmental Studies School 2010
Get ready for another exciting and informative weekend, this year in Hull, Massachusetts. Welcome back some instructors you may have enjoyed before, and meet new ones. Learn about weather and discuss global warming with a local meteorologist. Trade in your toxic household products for healthy, non-toxic alternatives. Explore pollution and develop a value system which respects the interdependence of all nature. Explore the rain forest and discover new ways to protect endangered plants and wildlife. Last, but not least, visit Hull’s wind turbines and learn about their development, construction, and how Hull benefits from clean, free energy. This National Garden Clubs, Inc. program November 6 – 7 is entitled The Living Earth – Air and Related Issues. The event will be held at the Nantasket Beach Hotel and Conference Center, 45 Hull Shore Drive in Hull, and the course fee is $110. Marc Fournier, Debbie Cook, Marie Stella, Rob Gilman, and Patrick Cannon will speak. Required text: Living in the Environment by G. Tyler Miller, Jr., 7th Edition or later – Reference only. For complete information, call Judy Dorner at 781-367-0626, or email her at Kayakflower@verizon.net.
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Friday, September 10, 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm – Twilight Garden at Gallery NAGA
Arthur Dion and Meg White, Directors of Gallery NAGA invite Garden Club of the Back Bay members to an opening reception with photographer Mary Kocol this Friday, September 10, from 6 – 8 at the Gallery, 67 Newbury Street, Boston. They were struck by the similarity of the titles to our annual fund raising party in June and the September exhibition by the artist, and feel the affinities run even deeper. The show will be on view through October 2, so all are invited to stop by during the run of the show and see these beautiful photographs. Complete images can be seen on their website, www.gallerynaga.com. Below is Conifers, October, Arnold Arboretum, Boston, 2009 archival inkjet photograph (1/10) 23×23″ We thank Arthur and Meg for their hospitality.
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Tuesday, May 25, 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm – Celebrating the Esplanade’s 100 Years of Nature, Culture and Recreation
You are cordially invited to attend The Esplanade Association’s Ninth Annual Meeting Tuesday, May 25 at The Hampshire House, 84 Beacon Street in Boston. The theme of this year’s meeting is “Celebrating the Esplanade’s 100 Years of Nature, Culture and Recreation,” with Keynote Presentation by Tupper Thomas, Administrator of Prospect Park and President of the Prospect Park Alliance, Brooklyn, New York. For those of you who missed Ms. Thomas’s speech at the Boston Committee’s Spring meeting in April, here is another chance to hear a truly inspirational, forward thinking, and down to earth practical leader in her field talk about the challenges faced by parks throughout urban areas. The General Meeting begins at 5:30, and a Member Reception follows at 6:30. RSVP to Justin Burke by May 20 at 617-227-0365, or email jburke@esplanadeassociation.org.
The business to be conducted at the meeting includes consideration and voting on amendments to the bylaws of the Association to change the position and title of Board President to Board Chair.
