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  • Tuesday, March 19, 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm – Founding Gardeners: The Revolutionary Generation, Nature, and the Shaping of the American Nation

    The Concord Museum and the Concord Museum Guild of Volunteers will host author Andrea Wulf on Thursday, March 19 at the Concord Museum, Cambridge Turnpike at Lexington Road in Concord, for a lecture beginning at 1 pm.  The talk is the 2013 Mary M. Lesneski Memorial Lecture, on Founding Gardeners: The Revolutionary Generation, Nature, and the Shaping of the American Nation. 

    Founding Gardeners offers a fascinating look at the revolutionary generation from the unique and intimate perspective of their lives as gardeners, plantsmen, and farmers. For the founding fathers, gardening, agriculture, and botany were elemental passions, as deeply ingrained in their characters as their belief in liberty for the nation they were creating. Wulf’s stories of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and James Madison reveal a guiding, but previously overlooked, ideology of the American Revolution.

    Andrea Wulf was born in India and moved to Germany as a child. She lives in Britain where she trained as a design historian at the Royal College of Art. Her most recent book, Chasing Venus, was published in 2012 in eight countries in conjunction with the last transit of Venus in our century. Wulf has written for the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, The Sunday Times, The Guardian, and many other newspapers. She has lectured widely to large audiences at the Royal Geographical Society and Royal Society in London, the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia, Monticello, and the Chicago Botanic Garden, among many others. She is a three-time fellow of the International Center for Jefferson Studies at Monticello and the Eccles British Library Writer in Residence 2013.

    During her visit to Concord, Ms. Wulf will be a Scholar in Residence at the Concord Museum, exploring both the Concord Museum’s collection and the collections of other area institutions for research for a new book.

    As is tradition, Afternoon Tea organized by the Concord Museum’s Guild of Volunteers follows the lecture. The annual Mary M. Lesneski Lecture, begun 34 years ago in memory of a dedicated Concord Museum volunteer, has brought nationally renowned speakers on a variety of topics to the Museum each March. Tickets to the lecture and tea are $30; $25 Concord Museum Members. Reservations are required as space is limited; (978) 369-9763, ext. 216. Books will be available for purchase in the Museum Shop, with a book signing to follow the lecture.

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  • Thursday, October 18, 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm – A Rich Spot of Earth: Thomas Jefferson’s Revolutionary Garden at Monticello

    Were Thomas Jefferson to walk the grounds of Monticello today, he would no doubt feel fully at home in the 1,000 foot terraced vegetable garden where the very vegetables and herbs he favored are thriving,  Extensively and painstakingly restored under Peter J. Hatch’s brilliant direction, Jefferson’s unique vegetable garden now boasts the same medley of plants he enthusiastically cultivated in the early nineteenth century.  Peter reveals the Monticello garden’s bounty and legacy and its continuing impact on the culinary, garden, and landscape history of the United States.  A Rich Spot of Earth will be available for purchase and signing at this lecture, taking place Thursday, October 18 at the Hunnewell Building of the Arnold Arboretum, 125 Arborway, Boston.  Free parking.  Co-sponsored by the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University, Friends of Wellesley College Botanic Gardens, The Garden Conservancy, and the Thomas Jefferson Foundation, Inc.  Fee to attend for a member of any of the participating sponsors is $20, non-members $25.  To register, call Wellesley at 781-283-3094, or you may visit www.arboretum.harvard.edu.

  • Friday, August 17 – Sunday, August 19 – 14th Annual In The Garden Weekend

    The Homestead Resort and Spa in Hot Springs, Virginia (pictured below)  is once again pleased to partner with the American Horticultural Society for this wonderful event, In the Garden Weekend.  The AHS educates and inspires people of all ages to become successful and environmentally responsible gardeners by advancing the art and science of horticulture.  For this event, you will receive a complimentary membership to the AHS which includes a subscription to The American Gardener, the official bi-monthly magazine of the AHS.The event begins on Friday, August 17 at 3 pm with afternoon tea in the Great Hall, followed by registration and a Meet the Speakers reception in the Crystal Room.  Speakers this year include Andre Viette, horticulturist, author and lecturer, who hosts his own talk show entitled In the Garden.  Other speakers are Gabriele Rausse, Monticello’s Assistant Director of Gardens and Grounds, Forrest Lee of The Homestead, who will conduct a fascinating tour of The Homestead Gardens, James Piggott, retired pathologist, who will speak on Growing Grapes in the Home Garden and Small Vineyard, June Mays, garden designer and writer, and Ross Hotchkiss, Director of the American Daffodil Society. There will be lunches, wine tastings, breakfast and dinner daily, all for only $479 per person for two nights, taxes and daily service charge not included.  For complete information, and to register, call 800-838-1766, option 1, or log on to www.thehomestead.com.

     

     

  • Sunday, July 25, 7:00 pm – Thomas Jefferson, Gardener

    Peter Hatch is responsible for the efforts to restore and maintain the landscaping, vegetable gardens, vineyard and orchards of Monticello in the spirit of Thomas Jefferson’s own practices. He has lectured nationally and written a number of books and articles on gardening at Monticello (see image below.) Peter will share with you his knowledge of Jefferson’s curiosity about the natural world and Jefferson’s love of science that shaped his love of nature and his experimentation with seeds and grafting. Jefferson poured part of his formidable energy into cultivating 270 varieties of fruit and 150 varieties of vegetables! Come and learn more about this Founding Father and his astonishing relevance to our natural world today. Highfield Hall in Falmouth is excited to have Peter be the keynote speaker of its Glories of the Garden season at this event on Sunday, July 25 at 7 pm, not only for his prominence in an historically important organization, but also because he has family ties to earlier Hatches of Hatchville.

    A ticket for an evening with Peter Hatch is $15. Purchase your ticket online now at www.highfieldhall.org or call 508-5495-1878, x313.

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