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  • Sunday, June 26, 12:00 noon – 4:00 pm – Connecticut’s Historic Gardens Day

    Celebrate the nineteenth annual Connecticut’s Historic Gardens Day at Historic New England’s Roseland Cottage, chosen by Connecticut Magazine as Connecticut’s Best Public Garden. Amanda Shaw, Roseland Cottage’s gardener, will be on site to discuss our formal parterre garden, including the history, significance, and theory behind the garden layout and design; how Andrew Jackson Downing’s theories are reflected in that design, and any other questions you have about our historic garden. Visit https://my.historicnewengland.org/13915/ros-hist-garden

    Free. Please call 860 928-4074 for more information.

  • Wednesday, April 20, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm – Romanticism at Innisfree, Online

    Those who know his work think of landscape architect Lester Collins as a modernist, even a minimalist. Those who know Innisfree think of its connections to the gardens of ancient China and Japan. Innisfree and Collins’ larger body of work nevertheless draw deeply on the ideas and ideals of Romanticism, celebrating nature and the deep, emotional connection between humans and the natural world. Using Innisfree as the nexus, landscape curator Kate Kerin will introduce these ideas as a continuum rooted in 18th century Europe, flowering in the 19th century Hudson Valley with the likes of Andrew Jackson Downing, Frederick Law Olmsted, and artists of the Hudson River School, and very much alive today with growing interest in nature conservation, nature’s role in human health, and nature-based gardening strategies.

    Kate Kerin has spent her career studying, preserving, teaching about, and designing landscapes. She has a particular interest in garden history. Kate has been working with Innisfree since 2012.

    The Zoom lecture will take place April 20 at 1 pm Eastern, and is free to Innisfree members, $15 for nonmembers. Register HERE

  • Saturday, August 18, 4:00 pm – The Sanctified Landscape: The Beginnings of Historic Preservation in the Hudson Valley

    Dr. David Schuyler will discuss New York’s Hudson Valley as America’s first iconic landscape, while unraveling a history of idealization, revolution, pre-environmentalism, and creative power in the 19th and early 20th centuries, on Saturday, August 18, beginning at 4 pm on Olana’s East Lawn.  Olana, the historic home of Frederic Edwin Church, is located at 5720 Route 9G, Hudson, New York. He traces how an emerging sense of place, aesthetic identity and American historical associations became synonymous with the Hudson Valley, and increasingly ingrained in national consciousness – ideas advanced by popular authors such as James Fenimore Cooper and Washington Irving, and Hudson River School painters including Thomas Cole and Frederic Church. David Schuyler has been a professor at Franklin and Marshall College for over thirty years.  He also serves on Olana’s National Advisory Committee.  He is the author of Apostle of Taste: Andrew Jackson Downing 1815 – 1852, and The New Urban Landscape: The Redefinition of City Form in Nineteenth-Century America.  Presented by The Olana Partnership.  Call 518-828-1872, x 103, to reserve, or email rsvp@olana.org for more information.