Landscape historian Marta McDowell talks about Charles W. Eliot II, one of the country’s pre-eminent landscape architects, who designed the Colonial Revival garden at Nickels-Sortwell House, on Sunday, August 8, from 3 – 4:30 at the Nickels-Sortwell House in Wiscasset, Maine.  For more information, call 207-882-7169, or log on to www.historicnewengland.org.  $5 Historic New England members, $10 non members – registration required. Co-sponsored by the Maine Humanities Council.